IT'S seven in the morning, but the most heavily protected home in Hyderabad's upscale Jubilee Hills is already humming with activity.

Walkie-talkie and carbine-toting security men patrol the gates, safari-clad bureaucrats bustle around with files, sundry officials work phones, fax machines, photocopiers. Inside his cosy little wood-and-marble home-office, Nara Chandrababu Naidu is hard at work, signing files, listening to mandarins telling him about works-in-progress, power outages, coffee plantations, Naxalite attacks, a fawning newspaper editorial, a proposal from the Hindujas. [More]

Krishna Srivatsava, one of the best beaureacrats in India, who worked with six Chief Ministers of different stats, explains about Chandrababu Naidu who worked with a dream & vision, contrary to the typical Babus, who looted. [More]

the U.S. House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and the U.S. Senate's Protect IP Act.
SOPA and PIPA are bills not yet approved as laws that would give entertainment companies the power to take down domains that host or link to anything they consider pirated.
Neither bill has been finalized for presentation, so language can still be changed. According to the White House website, the Obama administration is against Internet piracy but will not support legislation that restricts freedom of expression or thwarts online innovation. [More]

and i guess i don't need to take the names of those dealers in our state or country. [More]

Cartoons against Corruption by Aseem.

Note : few cartoons may make you feel too much, but probably that is what the cartoonist felt. [More]

Election Commission released schedule for 5 states assembly elections.

Elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in 7 phases. Total Assembly seats - 403 [More]

a farmer or a fisher man won't get any bailout plan unless he owns 'kingfisher'. [More]

the recent announcement of Anna saying that he is going to close the blog that he very much used all this while is making people to think about how Team Anna is being organized and is there any set of rules and policies they ha [More]

wondering why i am saying this ?? do watch this one minute video. you'll have all the answers.. :) :) [More]

Widespread corruption in the Congress government seems to

an open secret in Andhra Pradesh, but the political impact is

unclear. One media contact told us the man on the street expects

it. He said: "corruption is inalienable. It is rather acceptable."

Another reporter said citizens are fine with corruption so long as

some the money flows down to them, adding that as long as Congress

continues to spread the wealth it actually "strengthens its position

in the state." A third journalist observed that at a minimum the

Congress is consolidating its political base "offering small

contracts to party workers, making them happy." [More]