Politicians

Some public figures arrive in politics after years of rallies and party posts. Vemireddy Prasanthi Reddy took a different route. For years she was best known in Nellore as one…

In 2012, a young man working in Singapore got a phone call from home. His father, Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, had died in a road accident. He had never planned a…

Andhra Pradesh lost one of its most recognisable political voices on 14 July 2026, when Mudragada Padmanabham — known to millions simply as the leader of the Kapu reservation movement…

Andhra Pradesh politics has produced many familiar faces, but few have combined courtroom sharpness, translation skill, and television-ready commentary quite like Undavalli Arun Kumar (also spelled Vundavalli Arun Kumar or…

In a middle-class home in the quiet town of Kanakapura, about 60 kilometres south of Bengaluru, a boy grew up surrounded by farmland, community, and the unspoken expectation that hard…

From the mica mines of Nellore to the floors of both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha — Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy's life is the story of a self-made industrialist…

On 7 September 2022, a man in a white T-shirt stepped out at Kanyakumari — the southernmost tip of India, where three oceans meet — and began to walk. He…

In July 2021, the Indian National Congress in Telangana was in a condition that political scientists might politely call terminal. In the 2020 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, the party…

In a small agricultural village called Chintamadaka in the Medak district of what was then Hyderabad State, a boy grew up watching farmers struggle, listening to elders speak of injustice,…