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United South Indian front for fiscal reforms, better returns? KTR | PTR | Tharoor | Buggana | Part 5
We are neither anti-nationals nor secessionists | KTR | PTR | Tharoor | Buggana | Part 4
Historically, the South has been subsidizing the North | Tharoor | KTR | PTR | Buggana | Part 3
Centre taking money that belongs to states is a travesty | KTR | PTR | Buggana | Tharoor | Part 2
Narendra Modi announcing lockdown was like Indira Gandhi announcing Emergency | KTR | PTR | Part 1
We (civil societies) don’t want to run a parallel government | Brinda | Meera | Padmaja | Part 2
Federalism exists because civil society is alive and kicking | Brinda | Meera | Padmaja | Part 1

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Police detaining a protester in Delhi on Saturday. — UN Human Rights body concerned over mass detentions in India, calls for release of protesters

Police whisked away the detained students on waiting buses. — The road to Jantar Mantar: A day inside India’s sealed capital

Rahul Gandhi interacting with students at the 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' event in Chennai. (@INCIndia/X) — International, financial forces controlling Modi, Rahul Gandhi alleges at Chennai ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’

Rahul Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay stand together holding a bouquet of white flowers during a meeting in Chennai. — Rahul Gandhi invites Vijay to join anti-BJP campaigns; SIR, CJP protests discussed

All major roads remained heavily guarded by police and armed personnel, with access restricted to everyone. — In groups of four, through back lanes: How students tried to reach a sealed Jantar Mantar

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. — BC reservations for local body polls: AP Cabinet clears Rajiv Ranjan Mishra Commission recommendations

InJest in a satirical column by South First. Names, places, situations are all fictitious. Caricature by Satish Acharya/South First. — Chickens on a roll to sponsor all opposition protests

‘Cowardice!’: Rahul, Priyanka slam government, back India’s youth

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Barricaded Delhi — Gen Z deserves better than an undeclared Emer-Gen Z, says Shashi Tharoor

ED seeks day-to-day hearing in Jagan disproportionate assets cases

CPI(M) says Delhi police denied food, water and medicines to Pinarayi Vijayan; vows to continue protest

Abhijeet Dipke, founding president of the Cockroach Janata Party. — Abhijeet Dipke’s grandmother dies; CJP says no information about his whereabouts

Rahul Gandhi and Vijay at Chennai. — ‘This government will go’: Rahul Gandhi tweets before meeting CM Vijay for lunch

Journalists detained by Delhi Police — ‘Koi media nahin hai’: Even journalists covering CJP protest not spared by Delhi Police

TN anti-CEC protests: Alleged skull fracture; Udhayanidhi, Kanimozhi slam CM Vijay

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