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In the recent times the State of Andhra Pradesh has been a platform for the political yatris. Many party leaders starting a tour on some pretext or the other. Odarpu Yatra, Telangana Yatra and fact finding yatra. It all started with Jaganmohan Reddy, son of the former Chief Minister of A.P. Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy starting the "Odarpu Yatra" to console the bereaved families who have lost their dear ones in the aftermath of YSR's death, supposedly unable to bear the grief of seeing their dearest leader depart. I have no comments about the authenticity of this count and the reasons behind their deaths. The tour started well and he has braved the scorching heat in search of his fortune. There is an undercurrent of sentiment attached to the yatra, you know. Whoever has taken up the "padayatra" has been successful in the past. The best case to prove it is none other than Jagan's own father. Taking a leaf or two from his father, from whom he did not get just his blo...

Today there was a call for Bharat Bandh, a call given by the main opposition parties and supported by fuse friendly opposition parties. The bandh was to protest for the increase in Petro prices or rather phased de-regulation of petroleum product prices. There is a lot of mechanism going on in organising these bandhs and making them successful. At the end of the day, there would be claims and counter-claims about the bandh being successful and not so. But what is the impact of these bandhs on the so called aam aadmi like you and me! Deregulation of Petroleum prices is good economics and bad politics. In the global economy how can you run the show with Administrative Pricing mechanism. So today or tomorrow it was to happen. The rueing is how the decontrol or deregulation would do in India. What if the Oil Marketing Companies form cartel(as if they are not doing so now!) and manipulate the prices when they sit for chai pani every fortnight when they revisit the prices? Is there a foolpr...