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Shekhar Gupta
leaves Indian
Express after 19
years
Editor-in-chief of the Indian Express,
Shekhar Gupta, is leaving the paper. His
farewell letter to his staff.
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Goodbye notes can be heartwarming or

heartbreaking. On a rare occasion they
can be both. This is one such.
It is time for me to say goodbyes at the

Express -- for the second time. The first
was exactly at the same time of the year
in 1983 when most of you were not born
yet.
I say goodbye now with joy because I
leave behind a wonderfully vibrant
newsroom with very good hands of
home-grown leaders. And a newspaper
that defines its value and power in terms
of its depth, credibility and respect. There
is no higher currency, no fairer
denominator of a newspaper's stature.
And also a wrench precisely because we
are such a fun gang, topped by a largehearted proprietor who pretty much
distributes all that the company earns
back to us. As generous compensations,
great working conditions, never a
resource spared in pursuit of a story. No
call ever to kill a story once it passes our
highest and the most exacting editorial
bars and filters.
I can do no better than paraphrase what
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Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji, my friend

and mentor in an area of journalism that
fascinated me, had said at his farewell
parade when cameras caught a hint of
mist in his ever-smiling eyes. He said he
didn't know whether to sob or smile.
Because he was leaving behind the
world's finest army that God gave any
human the gift of leading.
There isn't a daily newspaper in India
greater than the Express. Or a greater gift
that a journalist can ask for than to lead
it. I have been doubly blessed. I started at
the same paper as a reporter in 1977 and
worked here for a full 25 years in two
innings.
Leadership is its own teacher. In fact, the
finest. It gives you an opportunity to learn
from the many brilliant people that you
have been given the honour to lead. I
know, many of you by now would be
tired of my three-example rule in
editorial writing. Yet, here are my three
leadership lessons.
First, you must have a big heart. You can
be a competent manager, a powerful
boss, the wealthiest owner. But never a
leader without a big heart. Because there
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leadership.
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And third, find that instinct to choose the
most talented and diligent, give them
space, and then trust them. I confess this
defies conventional logic. Or advice on
your usual leadership manual's backflap. But trust with your heart and not
merely, clinically with your head. This is
the one gift I take away from Viveck
through a two-decade professional
relationship, and a friendship that
endures.
This concludes my farewell sermon. So
back to myself.
When life becomes cosy for too long, you
need to disrupt it. Smugness is the
beginning of old age, even if you are in
your teens, which I, regrettably, am not. I
am embarrassed to lean on the wisdom of
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Neale Donald Walsh, a contemporary leaves Indian

Shekhar Gupta
Express after 19
pop-spiritualist/philosopher so juvenile years
Scroll Staff an hour ago
that had he been born in India, he would
Is the RSS against Amit Shah

be a star on Aastha channel with his
becoming BJP president?
nutty Conversations with God. Life,Jha 10 hours ago

he
Dhirendra K
said, begins at the end of your comfort
Rajdeep and Sagarika to
zone. I am checking him out. as Reliance takes over

resign
Network 18
Shivam Vij 3 days ago
In any case, I am an incorrigible reporter
Why Raj junkie.

and thereby a terminal adventure Thackeray's
campaign is likely to fail in

Maharashtra
By the way, even at the risk of being
charged with crass tribalism, I shall 9 hours ago

Aarefa Johari write
something more specifically for my Indias 29th state,

Telangana,
will be born bit
fellow reporters at the Express. But a today
later.
Scroll Staff 8 hours ago
When crossing from Goa to

India needed a visa
I had said at my book release by Arun
John Menezes a day ago
Shourie in Mumbai earlier this month
In wake of Badaun rape and
that he taught me many things, but never and

murders, politicians
to write anything short, anpetitioners swarm UP village

article, a
Nishita
letter, even a farewell note. So IJha 9 hours ago
can
Why CNN-IBN's Sagarika

continue to indulge myself today as well.
Ghose may no longer criticise
Modi
But you have to bring out tomorrow's
paper. And I must write my firstVij 4this ago

Shivam in months
series -- my last at the Express -- of First at the pictures

It's easy to look
Person/Second Draft -- on time. Heard raped in UP,
of the two girls
that before?
harder to do anything about it

Scroll Staff 3 days ago
With Andhra bifurcation

today, researchers fret about
and with a great archives
fate of its historic
I so love you all, friends, colleagues,

much younger, brighter
Mridula Chari 11 hours

future. I am proud of you and cherish the ago
Meet the new Asia order
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time we spent together. I will be

generally in my office until June
15.There is a fair bit of pending writing.
So please be forewarned: you will still
have to endure the corridor addas on my
compulsive breaks from spells of writing,
bare feet and all.
Postscript: One antidote to compulsive
rambling is to steal a poet's lines. Let me
sign off, therefore, with Gulzar, whom
we all so adore...
Din dhale jahan, raat paas ho,
Zindagi ki lau, oonchi kar chalo,
Yaad aaye gar kabhi, jee udaas ho,
Meri awaz hi pehchan hai,
Gar yaad rahe...
We will always be in touch....
Shekhar
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FRONT PAGE NEWS
Telangana, Indias
29th state, will be
born today
Two accused in Badaun gang-rapes
confess to crime, Kolkata Knight Riders
win second Indian Premier League title,
and other major developments.
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Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP
Headlines from today's papers.

New state of Telangana is born today
India gets its 29th state today as the
southern state of Andhra Pradesh will
formally be split into two, with its
northern area being carved into a new
state called Telangana. The move comes
after prolonged protests by residents who
have felt the region has been neglected.
Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief K
Chandrasekhara Rao, 60, will be sworn in
as chief minister Monday morning, while
N Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu
Desam Party will be sworn in as chief
minister of the residual Andhra Pradesh
state a week from now. Telangana will
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have a population of 35 million.

Hyderabad will be the shared capital of
both states for ten years, after which the
city will become the capital of Telangana.
Indias democratic power will impact
world: Modi
On his first visit to the Bharatiya Janata
Party headquarters in New Delhi after
being sworn in as prime minister,
Narendra Modi emphasised the challenge
the party will face in keeping the faith of
550 million voters. Modi said that India
must make the world realise that the
country's democratic power will have a
global impact. He added that his decision
to invite leaders from neighbouring
countries for his swearing-in ceremony
last week was an attempt in that
direction. Modi also said that it was the
common expectation that unified the
electorate in favour of the BJP and it was
the partys responsibility to live up to the
popular expectations.
Congress MLA suspended for
criticising Rahul Gandhi
Bhanwar Lal Sharma, a Congress MLA
from Rajasthan, was
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CASTE CRIMES
UP Dalit women
find it harder to
report rape under
Samajwadi Party
government,
records show
Even crime statistics reflect regime
change in Uttar Pradesh. How will the
2014 elections impact caste and gender
crimes?
Supriya Sharma . 8 hours ago
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In March 2012, the Samajwadi Party won

the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections,
ending five years of Bahujan Samaj Party
rule.
Among other things, the regime change
was reflected in the state's crime
statistics. The number of rape cases of
Dalit women dropped from 375 cases in
2011 to 285 cases in 2012.
A drop in the number of rape cases
usually shows a government in good
light. But in Uttar Pradesh, the
interpretation is different: it isn't the
actual number of rapes of Dalit women
that may have gone down but the
number of cases filed by the police, say
scholars and Dalit activists.
"Under Mayawati, the police had strict
instructions to file a case whenever a
Dalit woman came to complain," said
Badri Narayan, professor at the GB Pant
Social Science Institute, Allahabad. The
increased responsiveness of the police
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could have led to a rise in the number of

cases filed during the BSP regime, he
says.
As the chart shows, there is a striking
difference in the number of Dalit rapes
registered under the SP and the BSP. In
2002-07, when the SP was at the helm of
power, the number of rape cases ranged
between 194 in 2002 and 258 in 2004. In
2007-2012, with the BSP in government,
the number rose to a high of 397 cases in
2011.
Another possible explanation for the rise

in the number of Dalit women rape cases
during the BSP regime, says Narayan,
could be that Dalits faced a caste backlash
from Yadav men who were upset with
the shift in political power and wanted to
re-establish their social dominance.
However, this argument is weakened by
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the decline in the number of Dalit

murders during the BSP regime. Unlike
rape cases, murder cases are hard for the
police to ignore, or keep out of the
records. More Dalits were killed during
the SP regime as compared to the BSP
regime, which indicates the l ...
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MAHARASHTRA POLITICS
Why Raj
Thackeray's
campaign is likely
to fail in
Maharashtra
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena hopes
to eat into the Shiv Sena's votes this
assembly election, but Raj's lethargic
politics stands in his way, say experts.
Aarefa Johari . 9 hours ago
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Photo Credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP
Nearly 50 years after Bal Thackeray

launched the Shiv Sena party in
Maharashtra, a Thackeray will finally
contest an election. Ironically, the
Thackeray in question is the late Sena
chiefs estranged nephew and founder of
rival party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena,
Raj Thackeray.
On Saturday, at his first public rally in
Mumbai after his party's resounding
failure in the Lok Sabha election, Raj
announced that he would stand for the
upcoming assembly election in
Maharashtra and even projected himself
as the chief ministerial candidate.
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Not to be outflanked, a spokesman for the

Shiv Sena on Sunday declared that
Uddhav Thackeray would the party's
chief ministerial candidate, but he failed
to clarify whether the party chief would
actually stand for elections.
Given the MNSs wipe-out in the 2014
general election the party lost every
single seat from which it contested it is
evident that the purpose of Rajs
declarations is to unsettle the Shiv Sena
and eat into its vote share. In the 2009
assembly election, the MNS had
successfully split the votes that would
have otherwise gone to the Sena, and it
hopes to replicate that situation this year
by spinning a Modi-style, personalitydriven campaign focusing on Raj
Thackeray.
If the MNS agenda is successful, the Sena
is likely to win fewer seats than its
alliance partner, the Bharatiya Janata
Party, effectively ruining the Senas
dream of seeing its own candidate in the
chief ministers chair.
But does the MNS pose a genuine threat
to the Shiv Senas vote share? Political
commentators and rivals believe that is
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CASTE CRIMES
In wake of Badaun
rape and murders,
politicians and
petitioners swarm
UP village
Katara village gets its first helipad as
Mayawati descends from the sky. But the
police have not made any progress in the
case.
Nishita Jha . 9 hours ago
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Photo Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP
The policemen, as usual, had arrived late.

By the time they assembled outside the
hut in Katara village in Uttar Pradeshs
Badaun district, their charge, Samajwadi
Party MP Dharmendra Yadav, was
already running out of conversation
inside.
Of course, it was clear to everyone around
that Yadav was late too. Even though two
girls had been raped, murdered, and
hanged from a tree in Katara village,
Yadav had taken five whole days to
appear at the site of the outrage. It was
only after a highly disturbing image of
the crime went viral on social media that
the SP finally began to display some
urgency. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav
fired his chief secretary, ordered an
inquiry by the Central Bureau of
Investigation and sent Dharmendra
Yadav to placate the villagers.
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Unsurprisingly, Dharmendra Yadav's

offer to compensate the girls' families for
their loss met with no enthusiasm. The
families wanted justice, not money, they
said. In fact, what they really wanted was
to see the boys who had tortured their
daughters to death to be hanged from the
very same mango tree. It was around
here that Yadav had found his
conversational skills faltering and left.
As the day grew warmer, things were
starting to look up. Katara received its
first helipad (freshly built and paid for,
on a farmer's languishing mint crop), and
then witnessed the glorious sight of Dalit
leader Mayawati alighting from her
chopper, followed by the efficient-in-blue
Bahujan Voluntary Force. It was a rare
event. Behenji rarely met with the media
or visited sites of unrest during her
tenure as UP chief minister, but the
thorough trouncing in the recent election
appeared to have transformed her into
a gentler soul.
In a record 20 minutes spent with the
victim's families (Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi met them for ten minutes on
Saturday, while Yadav barely lingered),
Mayawati managed to convince the girl's
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parents to accept her personal

compensation of Rs 5 lakh ...
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POWER STRUGGLE
Is the RSS against

Amit Shah
becoming BJP
president?
The BJP's parent organisation fears it will
lose control of the party if Modi's closest
aide is appointed to the job, officials say.
Dhirendra K Jha . 10 hours ago
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Amit Shah worked magic in the critical

state of Uttar Pradesh to help the
Bharatiya Janata Party win 71 of 80 Lok
Sabha seats. So why does the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh oppose the idea of
making Narendra Modis closest aide the
president of the BJP? RSS insiders, who
admit that a deadlock on the choice of
party leader has emerged due to
differences between the Sangh and Modi
on the matter, have two sets of answers.
One answer is that the RSS, the parent of
the Hindutva group of organisations to
which the BJP belongs, does not want to
transfer complete control of the party to
Modi. It is no secret that if Amit Shah
were to head the BJP, Modi would have
the ability to take all decisions for the
party. Complete control over the
government and the party by one person
would not be in the interest of the Sangh
Parivar, said an RSS official who
requested anonymity.
The RSS fears that such centralisation of
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power would result in Modi

implementing his Gujarat model on the
Sangh Parivar at national level. In
Gujarat, there is no BJP, the RSS official
said merely a bunch of Modi supporters.
No dissidence is allowed. Even the RSS in
the state has lost its commanding position
to Modi. In the entire Sangh Parivar in
Gujarat, it is Modis men who take all the
decisions, and the detractors simply have
no place in it, the RSS official said. The
Sangh cannot allow that to happen in rest
of the country.
Through the campaign and since his
victory, Modi has made his desire clear
not just the government, even the BJP
must work under him. The meeting of
BJP general secretaries that he convened
on Saturday made this even more
obvious. This meeting was the first major
event at 7 Race Course Road and was
attended by ten general secretaries of the
party.
The very real possibility of losing control
of the BJP isnt the only reason the RSS
isnt keen on Amit Shah becoming party
president. Though a section of the leaders
in the BJP acknowl ...
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TELANGANA STATEHOOD
Meet the cultural

icons of Telangana,
India's newest
state
Every region has contemporary heroes
who define its culture. Here is a look at
some from India's newest state.
Sumana Ramanan . 10 hours ago
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Today, Telangana becomes India's newest

state. The creation of this new political
entity fulfills the dreams of thousands of
people from the 10 districts of Andhra
Pradesh who have a strong sense of
regional identity.
Though both Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh share the Telugu language, their
trajectories, particularly in the 20th
century, have been quite different,
leading to very different socio-economic
conditions in the two regions, said
Gautam Pingle, a Hyderabad-based proTelangana political economist. While
Telangana belonged to the princely state
of Hyderabad, ruled by the Nizams, the
rest of Andhra belonged to Madras
Presidency, governed by the British.
As Telangana emerges onto the national
stage, we look at some people from a
range of creative fields, from films to fine
arts, literature to music, who have come
powerfully to represent the region's
culture and aspirations.
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FILM: B Narsing Rao
A towering figure in Telugu alternative

cinema who was dubbed "the killer of
kitsch" for his artistic vision, B Narsing
Rao has directed four feature and four
documentary films, most of which speak
for the oppressed and are strongly tied to
the social life of Telangana.
'Daasi' (Bonded Woman), for instance,
which was released in 1988 and won five
national film awards, describes the life of
a young low-caste woman in 1920s
Telangana who has been sold by her
family to a wealthy upper-caste
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household. As a bonded servant, she is

expected not only to do physical labour
but to also be sexually available to the
men and guests of the house. She
becomes pregnant and wants to keep the
child, but her master forces her to have
an abortion.
The previous year, Rao released Maa
Ooru (My Village), a documentary
portraying the static caste-ridden social
life in a Telangana village that he had
visited when he was five years old. He
travelled a total of 6,000 km in the region
for the shoot. The film won a national
award for the best ethnographic film and
another prize at the Hungary
International Festival of Visual Arts.
About a decade earlier, Rao had written
the screenplay for Maa Bhoomi (Our
Land), released in 1979 and directed by
Gautam Ghose. Based on a Hindi play, Jab
Khet Jaage (When the Fields Awaken),
the film tells the story of a landless
peasant during the Telangana Rebellion
from 1946 to 1951 and shows the
immense power of feudal lords, who
routinely rounded up villagers and forced
them to work for free. The rebellion was
primarily an armed peasant revolt
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against first the region's feudal land

owners and then the princely state, but it
also helped deepen the region's sense of
identity.
"This is a moment I have been waiting for
since I became a student leader in 1969,
when the agitation for statehood began,"
he said over the phone from Hyderabad,
referring to the passage of the bill
enabling the creation of Telangana state.
Rao has been actively involved in
generating and disseminating knowledge
about the culture of Telangana,
contemporary and historical. He is the
lead editor of an encyclopaedia on the
culture of Telangana, which he expects
will be published early next year. He and
his co-editors have already commissioned
various people to write the
encyclopaedia's 200 entries.
Rao is also helping produce a book
describing the life and work of 150 postIndependence artists of the region and
has already booked a stall at next year's
India Art Fair in Delhi that will showcase
42 artists from Telangana.
Already a cultural force in Andhra
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Pradesh, the multi-faceted Rao, who is

also a painter, is likely to play an even
more central role in the intellectual life
of India's newest state.
Here is his film Maa Bhoomi.
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FINE ARTS: Laxma Goud
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Source: Dakshinchitra.net.
Like Narsing Rao, Laxma Goud is a native
of Medak district. He was fascinated by
the region's various crafts, such as those
of leather puppetry and terracotta
jewellery-making.
He studied art first in Hyderabad and
then in Baroda, at the MS University's
Faculty of Fine Arts, where he studied
mural painting under KG Subramanyan
and developed a lifelong love of
printmaking.
After graduating, he returned to his
village, whose life and mores became the
focus of his paintings, particularly the
more open sexuality he discerned there.
Both his explicitly erotic paintings and
those that depicted other aspects of rural
life reflected the distinct culture of
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Telangana.
He himself declined to be interviewed
over the phone. "Long-distance
conversations don't make a dent," he said.
"You should come here and talk to me."
But gallery owners in Mumbai who have
worked with him said that he was deeply
committed to Telangana as a distinct
cultural entity, as were many other
leading artists from the region, such as
Thota Vaikuntam and Laxman Ailay.
"Day-to-day village life is a recurring
theme in his work," said Dadiba Pundole,
who owns an eponymous gallery in
Mumbai and has exhibited Goud's work
several times. "Folk culture is very strong
in his work, and he draws from the
various stories that he heard as a young
child."
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A Laxma Goud painting.

LITERATURE: Kaloji Narayana Rao
A giant of Telugu letters, Kaloji Narayana

Rao, who died in 2002, was both
revolutionary and strongly pro-Telangana
in his outlook. Born in Warangal district
to a Kannadiga mother and a
Maharashtrian father, he became fluent
in four languages Telugu, Marathi,
Hindi and Urdu, and wrote poetry in all
four tongues.
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He was just a teenager when he wrote his

first poem, which was a response to the
colonial government's execution of
Bhagat Singh. India's late prime minister,
P V Narasimha Rao, was a great admirer
of Kaloji Rao, who received the Padma
Vibhushan in 1992.
"He is a huge literary figure," said
Nandini Siddha Reddy, the founderpresident of the Telangana Writers'
Forum, a poet, songwriter and editor of
the now defunct quarterly, Soyee, which
means "consciousness" in the Telangana
dialect of Telugu. "His Naa Godava (My
Struggle), written in the early 1950s, is a
monumental work in verse about
Telangana society. Had he been alive
today, he would have been very happy to
see Telangana become a state. We have
all struggled for six decades to see this
day. Our writers are all immensely
happy."
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From Naa Go dava.

MUSIC: Gaddar
Born as Gummadi Vittal Rao to a poor

Dalit family in Medak district, of which
Narsing Rao is also a native, Gaddar
adopted the one-word name by which he
became popularly known, as a tribute to
the Ghadar Party, which fought against
British colonial rule in Punjab.
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In his late teens, Gaddar became involved

in social activism and street theatre. In
1969, he, like Narsing Rao, joined the
Separate Telangana Agitation, eventually
joining the filmmaker's Art Lovers'
Association and attending its weekly
gatherings. Through these meetings,
Gaddar imbibed the social critiques of the
Communist Party of India (MarxistLeninist), which Rao was close to.
Rao encouraged Gaddar, asking him to
write his first song, Apuro Autorickshaw
(Stop Rickshaw), through which he urged
the singer to highlight their harsh
working life. This song became a massive
hit, especially among the working classes
and helped him flower into a full-fledged
singer-songwriter.
Gaddar remained closely associated with
the filmmaker, writing songs for two of
his films and touring with him in the
1970s as part of the street theatre group
Jana Natya Mandali. These songs
influenced people across Telangana, both
those who were left-oriented and those
who were just nationalists. Amma
Telanganama combined both these
ideologies.
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The movement for statehood spawned a

number of balladeers, such as Gorati
Venkanna and Ande Sri, the latter who
has written a version of Telangana's
national anthem, called Jai Jai He
Telangana. Many songs were local folk
songs that Gaddar and his confrres
adapted to their political ends.
Today, as one of Telangana's most wellknown balladeers, Gaddar welcomed the
formation of Telangana but says the
bigger battle for social justice remains to
be fought.
"Of course, I welcome the new
geographical entity," he said over the
phone, "because small states benefit
small people.But the people's Telangana
has yet to become a reality. As long as
society is economically unequal, our
struggle will continue. What we want are
jungle, jameen and jal" forest, land and
water.
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Gaddar's 'Podustunna Poddumeeda'

(Breaking dawn) from the movie Jai Bolo
Telangana, directed by N Shankar, about
the region's history and struggle for
statehood.
HANDICRAFT: Pochampally ikat weave
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Girl standing in a veranda wearing a

Pochampally Ikat weave sari, by
Hermann Linde (1863-1923).
Famous for its hand-woven sarees that
take its name, this region in Telangana's
Nalgonda district consists of about 75
villages. The sarees, and other fabrics,
usually have intricate geometric designs.
The style of weaving is part of the larger
Ikat tradition, which extends to parts of
Orissa and in which craftsmen use
traditional looms to produce cotton and
silk weaves.
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The Pochampally weave is among the

more well-known of Telangana's myriad
crafts, which include the Nakashi scroll
paintings typical of the Cheriyal region
and leather puppetry, to name just two.
A Cherial scroll painting in progress.

FESTIVALS: Bathukamma
Batukamma festival at Rajalingampet

This is a flower festival unique to
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Telangana and is not celebrated in other

parts of Andhra Pradesh. It is celebrated
by Hindu women, lasts for nine days and
roughly coincides with Navratri, ending
one day before Dussehra.
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