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Sriram Karri
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Sriram Karri is the Resident Editor of Deccan Chronicle, based in Hyderabad. He is also the author of the MAN Asian Literary Prize long-listed novel 'Autobiography of a Mad Nation' and 'The Spiritual Supermarket'.
    Hoshang Merchant (Image credit: Facebook)Newsmakers
    Words of a gay poet, as old as India's Independence, heal

    Hoshang Merchant a midnight's child, as old as our independence reflects on the coinciding evolution of the life of a...

    20 Aug 2021 5:04 AM

    Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP file photo)Opinion
    Sriram Karri | Game score at halftime: China 1, Mankind 0

    It looks unlikely with the pace at which Covid is moving around the global field if there can be an equaliser

    2 Jun 2021 1:36 AM

    Soods rise in being recognised as a saviour is also a deep reflection of the indifference of the others. (Photo: Instagram: Sonu Sood)India
    In bleak times, villain' Sonu Sood redefines heroism

    Sonu Sood has risen now to become India's superhero, without a cape, just a twitter handle

    26 May 2021 2:51 PM

    If people have a reason to pretend to love your children, or pets, or care about your diet and exercise, or your last holiday in real life, then only is their pretence a real fake, else just a solicitation for a barter. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Stop being paranoid. Your FB friend won't give money even to your...

    Trust me, no one is rushing to helping your fake profile owner loads of money on his mere pretence of being in trouble

    13 March 2021 10:46 PM

    Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and some other parts of the country have been camping at several Delhi border points since November 28, demanding repeal of the farm laws, a legal guarantee on minimum support price for their crops and other two issues. (Photo:PTI)Opinion
    Sriram Karri | How PM can win hearts, keep bills, end protests

    In the next many days, on any day of his choosing, Mr Modi should just walk into a protest site and spend several hours

    16 Feb 2021 1:38 AM

    Cover page of Vinay Sitapatis Jugalbandi. (Twitter/@vinay_sitapati)Newsmakers
    Modi, like RSS, is not dogmatic on economy. But he is close to a...

    Modi takes his decisions based more on politics than economics, per se, argues Vinay Sitapati in this concluding part of...

    17 Dec 2020 10:31 PM

    Cover page of Vinay Sitapatis Jugalbandi. (Twitter/@vinay_sitapati)Newsmakers
    'Sangh suffers from Islamophobia but sincerely wants to eradicate...

    Dr Ambedkar was critical of every kind of religious bigotry, says author Vinay Sitapati in the second part of this...

    17 Dec 2020 5:35 AM

    Cover page of Jugalbandi: The BJP Before ModiNewsmakers
    Mahatma's assassination delayed Hindutva supremacy by two generations:...

    The book though is neither a tale of a historical plot to create Modi nor a century-old history of the Sangh Parivar

    16 Dec 2020 7:03 AM

    Telangana State BJP President Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy along with other leaders celebrate the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election results in Hyderabad on Friday December 4 (PTI)Opinion
    Sriram Karri | Hyderabad-Bhagyanagar face-off ends in uneasy stalemate

    The Bhagyanagar reference resonates strongly amongst both its supporters and opponents

    6 Dec 2020 1:46 AM

    Home Minister Amit Shah on his way to visit Bhagyalakshmi Ammavari Temple, in Hyderabad. (PTI)Opinion
    Sriram Karri | Why has the GHMC campaign missed the context?

    Whoever wins, we will most likely have a dummy mayor, a disappointing candidate

    30 Nov 2020 3:56 AM

    Workers prepare a campaign vehicle for the BJP, ahead of the GHMC elections, in Hyderabad, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
    Sriram Karri | Can KCR's gameplan stop Modi juggernaut?

    BJP has already pushed TRS into a spot by making GHMC elections about nationalist Hindutva, a template it has not really...

    20 Nov 2020 5:26 AM

    BJP workers celebrate Dubbak bypoll winOpinion
    Dubbaka nailbiter may have changed Telangana politics

    Today, the TRS will rue that it precipitated the decline and uprooting of several parties in the state

    12 Nov 2020 1:56 PM

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