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A parched field in Mungode village of Nalagonda district, which has accounted for a large number of heatwave-related deaths.-INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP

The heat of poverty

Poverty is the underlying reason for the large number of heat-related deaths reported from Andhra Pradesh this summer; the heatwave is just the proxim

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Back to the basics

An eroding rural support base and an increasingly vocal demand for a separate Telengana State force the TDP to think of a strategy with its thrust on

V. KRISHNA ANANTH in Tirupati

Roof-top room only, on a bus journey to Patna.-

State of regression

Why and how Bihar is steadily moving backwards.

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Jayaprakash Narayan, at a rally in 1975.-THE HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY

Another rally, another day

IN a State where protest has traditionally been marked by the massive mobilisation of people on the streets, the April 30 rally in Patna was not an un

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How relief is distorted

AMONG all the measures taken by a government to help poor farmers and agricultural labourers in times of a drought, the most prominent one is the Food

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Gruel (`ambali' in Telugu) of millet supplied by CPI(M) cadre at Kistapuram village of Dhanwada mandal in Mahboobnagar district.-

The sociology of drought

BAGAR GOVIND, past 60 years of age, breathed his last on April 5, in his tiny hamlet in the sleepy Kistapuram village in Mahboobnagar district, some 1

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June 2000: At a mass cremation of victims of the Ranvir Sena, the outlawed private army of upper-caste Bhumihar landlords, at Miapur in Aurangabad district.-MUNNA SHARMA

Of feudal charity

GOING just by figures relating to death due to hunger caused by famine conditions, Bihar will not figure among the list of States whose people are aff

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BATTLE CRY IN BIHAR

The `lathi' rally organised in Patna by Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal fell short of the party's record in terms of numbers and was no hist

V. KRISHNA ANANTH in Patna

Elusive relief in Andhra Pradesh

While the groundwater level is falling fast, farmers and landless agricultural workers are left to fend for themselves in a nightmare year on the drou

V. KRISHNA ANANTH in Mahboobnagar

A controversy in Hyderabad

The way in which more than 250 acres of evacuee land in and around Hyderabad was allotted to displaced persons from Pakistan and changed hands through

V. KRISHNA ANANTH in Hyderabad