Justifying the peaceful protests for the “Special Category Status”

In FY2012–13, Hyderabad contributed ₹70,548 crores of revenues to the then united Andhra Pradesh. After the dismemberment, an estimated ₹20,000 crores of revenues were lost by the Andhra Pradesh to Telangana. To…


Visakhapatnam on Global start-up map

In 2015–16, the investors from tier 2 and 3 cities made 13% of the investments into startups. The investors paying attention to the start-ups in the tier-2/tier-3 cities. Visakhapatnam (Vizag)has been in news on its emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem, and investors…


Reservations for Kapu/Balija castes in Andhra Pradesh — where will this end?

This article is originally published on Telugu360

On 31 January, 2016, an unprecedented event has happened at Tuni, a small town from East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Approximately 1 lakh members from Kapu/Balija…

Priest at your doorstep — create market for religious services.

Endowments Department (Govt. of Andhra Pradesh) seems to have inspired from the recent start-ups trend of aggregating the services, and is introducing the priest at your doorstep from this Ugadhi (8 April, 2016). A toll…