Ex MP's view on their Pay Hike Demand

Pritish Nandy, 22 August 2010, 10:01 AM IST

I was a MP not very long ago. I loved those six years. Everyone called me sir, not because of my age but because I was a MP. And even though I never travelled anywhere by train during those years, I revelled in the fact that I could have gone anywhere I liked, on any train, first class with a bogey reserved for my family. Whenever I flew, there were always people around to pick up my baggage, not because I was travelling business class but because I was a MP. And yes, whenever I wrote to any Government officer to help someone in need, it was done. No, not because I was a journalist but because I was a MP. [More]

Dr YS Rajasekhar Reddy! His name is now a prefix to a historic district. His statues are everywhere, from AP Assembly to America. But there is no space for him where he had his last breath. [More]

It may be a quote of James Freeman Clarke

but become famous by Dr. Radhakrishnan in India. Here is the Quote. [More]

You call them pet dogs or press dogs but YS Jagan is maintaining a few to spell out his words from other people's mouths. So, the basic job of these people will be to wake up in the morning and get ready, have their breakfast and then get on to the roads. by afternoon, they will start press meets and talk whatever they want to against those who commented on Jagan. [More]

If you give a bag of rice with a cup of stones in it, people may use it. If you give a bag of stones with a cup of rice in it, people will dump it. Now you can understand why these days people are not willing to vote. [More]

Indian rupee has a symbol now. It is a mix of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R'. It will be the fifth currency in the world to have unique identity. So far US dollar, UK Pound, Japanese Yen and Euro have the unique symbols and now Indian rupee is going to join them.

Today the Indian Cabinet has approved this new symbol which is designed by an IIT post graduate called Uday Kumar. [More]

Our UPA Government boasts about our country's GDP, say so many things about the Country's ability in handling the recent Global Economic Crisis. But it is so unfortunate that we are conveniently forgetting the facts. Here are the facts. [More]

Jagan's firm stand on Odarpu yatra. Left for Srikakulam. [More]

who said the following? "Can i transfer to Oxford? Cambridge is becoming too full of Indians." [More]

The Andhra Pradesh Govt has issued a notification to change the Kadapa district name to Dr. Y S Rajasekhar reddy district. And has set 30 days to receive any complaints. “Kadapa is a corruption of Gadapa,...meaning the place where our feet fall before we reach the Lord’s abode(Tirumala). If you remove Kadapa, this historical significance will be lost”What you think? Is this a Fair act? [More]