Peoples Telangana

Mohan Guruswamy  Watch this  https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18VUsHgRL4/ Every word he says is true. The minerals belong to the Adivasi people who live there. It is the low cost of iron ore extracted from their adivasi homeland mines that enables steelmakers like Tata Steel and Essar, and miners like NMDC, not only to be among the most profitable companies in India, but also gives it the financial muscle to make huge overseas acquisitions. Ultimately, it is the poor adivasi who pays for it with his home and hearth and gets no credit for it! Either from the State, which connives in their exploitation, or the industry that lords over their resources, says Mohan Guruswamy. The exploitation of the adivasi (tribal) homelands for their mineral riches, always to the detriment of the adivasis, has stoked the biggest and most widespread insurgency t0his country has known. The adivasi revolts predate the advent of the Naxalites by more than a couple of centuries. In just the Rampa regi...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY; Menaka Guruswamy still gets trolled for appearing for the West Bengal government in the most heinous RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, In August 2024, then Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud decided to hear the matter related to this rape-murder taking “suo moto” cognisance of it. “Suo moto” is a Latin term that means “on its own motion”. The CJI took cognisance of it based on the uproar in the mainstream and social media. Our Supreme Court has the power to take up cases on its own initiative, without a petition being filed. This power allows the court to address issues of public concern, especially those that involve public safety and fundamental rights. Given the passions and outrage the Kolkata rape-murder case generated, the CJI decided to hear it almost immediately and also to broadcast the hearings live on channels like YouTube. Senior lawyers Kapil Sibal and Menaka Guruswamy were appointed by the State of West Bengal to represent it in t...

By Nagesh Bhushan   Maalapilla is one of the earliest Telugu stories to raise a strong voice against caste discrimination. It was created in the 1930s, during India’s independence movement, when society was still plagued by caste oppression. The story revolves around the life of a young woman who questions caste discrimination in her village, where upper-caste people consider themselves superior and humiliate those from the Mala community. Her struggle for dignity and humanity becomes a lesson for society. The story is not just about one person’s suffering but about the larger inequalities in society. With the message “Can’t we see a human as a human?”, Maalapilla deeply moved audiences. It declared that humanity is greater than caste and paved the way for social change. Great writer, Gudipati Venkatachalam (who wrote the foreword to Sri Sri’s Mahaprasthanam ), provided the story. He was known for works like Maidanam , Daivamichina Bharya , Prema Lekhalu , and satirical plays. ...

Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense—until recently a Fox News commentator—is boasting about what America did to Iran in the recent conflict. The United States is more than 20 times larger than Iran in economic and military terms, and Iran is vastly poorer, with limited conventional military capabilities beyond its batteries of small and medium-range missiles. Yet this much weaker nation went toe-to-toe with the world’s most powerful military and forced it to the negotiating table on terms largely set by Tehran. In politics and geopolitics, victory is not measured by the number of deaths or casualties, but by who achieves their objectives. When historians record the outcome of Nazi Germany versus the Soviet Union, they focus on who surrendered, not merely on lives lost. Similarly, when the United States sought to withdraw from Vietnam, it sent a senior military officer to negotiate the terms. The boastful American general reportedly told his Vietnamese counterpart, “ Don’t forget—...

By Nagesh Bhushan The Calculated Mirage For centuries, the archaic dictum of the Manusmriti— “Nastri Swatantram Arhate”  (women do not deserve freedom)—cast a long shadow over the Indian subcontinent. The passage of the  Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam  (106th Constitutional Amendment) was presented to the public as the final shattering of that cage, a historic leap toward gender parity. Yet, beneath the celebratory thumping of desks in Parliament lies a calculated political maneuver. The original Act contained a vital safeguard: implementation only after the 2027 Census and subsequent delimitation. Now, reports suggest a government rush to fast-track the process, bypassing these prerequisites. What is being marketed as an acceleration of empowerment is, in reality, a systemic effort to cement structural inequality. By decoupling the reservation from a fresh census, the state is effectively legalizing a "representation gap" that will haunt the Other Backward Classes (...

  T. Chiranjeevulu, IAS (Ret), Founder Presiddent BCIF(BC Intellectuals Forum) It's Not Just a Bill During the special Parliament sessions on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of this month, a special discussion on the Women's Reservation Bill is reportedly scheduled. Through the 106th Constitutional Amendment , known as the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023 , a decision has already been taken to provide 1/3 reservation for women in legislative bodies. While this is an important step toward women's empowerment, serious doubts are being raised about its implementation. When this amendment was passed, a key condition was included — the reservations would come into effect only after the 2027 Census and the subsequent delimitation of constituencies. The original intent was implementation from the 2029 general Lok Sabha elections. However, the central government is now reportedly moving to fast-track this process and implement it immediately through appropriate constitutional amendme...