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Sri Sathya Sai trust members Srinivasan and Ratnakar at a press conference in April.-R.V.S. PRASAD

Pandora's box?

Prashanthi Nilayam is at the centre of a storm after Sathya Sai Baba's demise.
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Policemen place the Tricolour on the casket containing Sathya Sai Baba's body at Prashanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi on April 27. The funeral, performed with full state honours, took place at the same place from where Sai Baba addressed his devotees.-SHAILENDRA BHOJAK /PTI

Sai legend

It is a measure of Sai Baba's (1926-2011) appeal that no one complained about the secular state overstepping its limits in honouring him.
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CHIEF MINISTER N. KIRAN Kumar Reddy with K. Chiranjeevi after the merger in Hyderabad on February 9.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Merger dividends

Chiranjeevi's merger of his Praja Rajyam Party with the Congress gives the latter's government in Andhra Pradesh a measure of stability.
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Srikrishna Committee chairman Justice B.N. Srikrishna presenting the report to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi on December 30, 2010 .-RAJEEV BHATT

Unity option

Andhra Pradesh: The Justice Srikrishna Committee lists good reasons for its preference to keep the State united.
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N. Kiran Kumar Reddy with his predecessorK. Rosaiah in Hyderabad on November 25, the day he took over as Chief Minister.-BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

State of flux

A rebellion and a change of Chief Minister mark a troubled period in the Congress-ruled State.
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New loan sharks

The rural poor in Andhra Pradesh, a State showcased as a model for SHG-bank linkage, are caught in the vortex of microfinance.
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P. Chidambaram, Union Home Minister, coming out of his office after the all-party meeting on Telangana in New Delhi on January 5.-V. SUDERSHAN

Talking peace

THE United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre finally devised a means, democratic consultations, to pull Andhra Pradesh out of the po
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Divided State

in Hyderabad
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Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, along with Special Secretary P. Subramanyam and Chief Security Officer A.S.C. Wesely (partly hidden), in the Bell-430 helicopter moments before it took off from the Begumpet airport in Hyderabad on September 2. The chopper crashed into a hillock near Kurnool about an hour later, killing all its occupants.-PTI

Shocking end

ANDHRA PRADESH lost one of its most charismatic and resourceful leaders ever when Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was killed in a helicopter cra
S. NAGESH KUMAR

Political theatre

in Hyderabad
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B. Ramalinga Raju and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy at a function in Hyderabad. A file photograph.-H. SATISH

Far from the truth

EVERYONE loves a corporate scam of the kind at Satyam Computer Services. It jacks up television ratings and keeps the adrenalin of stock speculators p
S. NAGESH KUMAR

Fall of an icon

in Hyderabad
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