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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'.
    Police personnel mask up while preparing for a drill during the coronavirus lockdown in Jaipur on March 24, 2020. (PTI)Opinion
    Coronavirus has a message for us humans

    This calamity is imploring us to regain our humanity, with intelligence and benevolence

    24 March 2020 3:27 PM

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    When Shakespeare' speaks on Indian politics

    Rahul Gandhi has been missing from the anti-CAA protests, I posed. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, he...

    4 March 2020 8:28 PM

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    Naidu options: To merge TDP with BJP, or perish

    The upending of his clout as a leader has seeped to a sharp attack at a personal level too.

    19 Feb 2020 8:28 PM

    One of the great scholars when it comes to Urdu literature, Gopi Chand Narang, was quoted as saying that, Urdu is not the language of Muslims. If at all there is any language of Muslims, it should be Arabic. Urdu belongs to the composite culture of India. Hindi and Urdu are supplementary and complementary. They are like sisters strengthening each other .Opinion
    Gated Republic: Who stole my Muslim neighbour?

    Without an iota of doubt, almost everyone who resides in our building is secular, democratic and broad-minded.

    5 Feb 2020 8:30 PM

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)Opinion
    2020 Budget can be Modi's 1991 redux

    The government has a duty to solve the problem, and the first step is to acknowledge the existence of a problem.

    26 Jan 2020 8:09 PM

    Attendees included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz and Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf.Opinion
    India's Satya isn't Sundar; that's our ugly truth

    Translated, Satya is Sundar, and Sundar is Satya. In our case, it is not.

    30 Dec 2019 7:14 PM

    Another dispute Uber faced was from its own drivers demanding the rights that other employees had to holidays and pensions.360 Degree
    Riding around in the age of Uber

    Cab aggregators claim they are losing money, drivers are not earning enough and customers claim they are paying too...

    28 Dec 2019 8:24 PM

    Police at the site of the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday morning. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Anatomy of a police encounter in India

    Policemen are nervously preparing to take the accused to the spot where the crime took place and recreate it.

    14 Dec 2019 6:30 PM

    Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik creates a sculpture at a beach in Puri to commend the Hyderabad Police for its action against the four gangrape accused on Friday. (Photo: PTI)India
    Bloodlust reigns as pride on social media

    The responses most loved were those that sought more violence.

    6 Dec 2019 8:37 PM

    In memoriam Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti applies tilak on a photo of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader late Ashok Singhal at the VHP office in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)India
    Ayodhya verdict: Keep calm and tweet

    The offline calm maintained by restrained citizens was palpable on Twitter too. The tone in which most Indians spoke was...

    10 Nov 2019 2:17 AM

    Jagan Mohan Reddy decided it was his first test to showcase a difference; wherein he would not be found doing doublespeak while in opposition and after coming to power.360 Degree
    Jagan reinventing himself in Modi's image

    Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is one of India's youngest political leaders.

    24 Aug 2019 11:46 PM

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    Amazon in Hyderabad: Growth lessons for all

    For several years now, Hyderabad has created icons for the country in movies, in sports, in businesses.

    22 Aug 2019 7:56 PM

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