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Open ga rallatho kotti champithe bayam untundhi.



While I understand the angst with which you are posting.
1) We are not Arab, to run Kangaroo courts. Though, I am in favor of using "society and shame" as sticks, to curb rape/sexual violence.
2) Nijam ga, ala raalla tho kotti champadam enduku bhayam kaligistundi? Blood, gore, dogs death on roads? Nothing is new to Indian public. In a different context, spine chillingly horrible accidents take place on Indian roads, where there is blood and death on roads is prevalent every day. Not 1 person is changing, unfortunately!
3) Raalla tho kotti champithe matram, rape victims ki solace ekkada vastundi? Offenders ki 1 day pain emo ilanti death tho. Really a punishment?
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Ee mullayam L gaadu rape chesthe adhi pedha tappu kaadhu anattu cheppadu. Chi eedi bathuku. Assala eedi wife ela untondhi veeditho. Aa north antha gabbu galle anukunta
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There have been several death sentences for rapes. Ekkada taggatledu rapes and horrible ga avutondi situation roju roju ki.




Death sentence pedha effect chupinchadu. Open ga rallatho kotti champithe bayam untundhi. Ee L'lo death sentence pedhaga bayapettadu janalani. too easy to forget.
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frank ga cheppalante, ilanti vaati valla use undadu!




Definte ga UNTUNDHI. Ucha posukuntaru janalu ilanti verri veshalu veyyali ante. Atleast 90% taggutayi definite ga.
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Even a woman judge has not been spared in Uttar Pradesh. The judge was raped and an attempt was made to kill her in Aligarh, police said Tuesday.The attack comes just days after the gang rape and murder of two minor girls in Badaun that has caused a nationwide furore.The woman judge was found unconscious in her official residence Monday. She was drugged and badly injured.


Vaammo!! Asalu Akhilesh gadiki siggu aina anipinchatledemo aadi admin intha ghoram ga fail avutunnanduku. Paiga Mullaji and Akhilesh ji iddaru rapists ni glorify chesi, rapes ni trivialize chesaru. Dont know what exactly is driving them. Btw, Badaun is a Yadav dominated village ani media lo vastondi. Are the rapists Yadavs? Why didnt police even act like they care?
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few days new pedithey......rapes thappa yemi levu.


UP lo lady judge ni rape sesaar anta...dhemudaa...plz separate this UP else join it in pak
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Rapes are not just "law and order" problem. Its a big sociological problem



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Even a woman judge has not been spared in Uttar Pradesh. The judge was raped and an attempt was made to kill her in Aligarh, police said Tuesday.The attack comes just days after the gang rape and murder of two minor girls in Badaun that has caused a nationwide furore.The woman judge was found unconscious in her official residence Monday. She was drugged and badly injured.


mulla & his son ki vote esina vallani anali
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malli proved raju goriki 'sarma' ante adokka type liking..




naa RSS feeds secret kanipettesar aithe meeru :D
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ee jail lo pettatam lantivi kakunda open ga nadi road meedha raallatho kottinchi champinchali, appudu gani migilinavallaki bayam raadhu.


frank ga cheppalante, ilanti vaati valla use undadu! Rapes are not just "law and order" problem. Its a big sociological problem where more number of psychos are being born. Society lo ilanti beasts peragakunda undaali and for that education is key. Entha harshest punishments ichina kuda em use undettu kanapadatledu naaku aithe.

There have been several death sentences for rapes. Ekkada taggatledu rapes and horrible ga avutondi situation roju roju ki.

Basky_indya:

JAGADAMBIKA PAL rocks...


you like him aa? why yaa?
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btw.. ee article lo two gujjus and BJP anagaane suspense reveal ayipoindi idi MODI thrd ani..
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JAGADAMBIKA PAL rocks... the 1-DAY(1/2 Night) CM.
kRUshITHO nAsthee dURbhikSHAM!!
JP_ROCKS: ...der unte enchakka andarni giant wheel ekkistadu..girrr mani oogachu..
MASTER BLASTER 'Sir' SACHIN TENDULKAR FANS ASSOSIATION YOUTH PRESIDENT..
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malli proved raju goriki 'sarma' ante adokka type liking..
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denemma last few days new pedithey......rapes thappa yemi levu......daarunam ga ayiniyai.......last one week lo......ponu ponu......chaala disturbing cases bayata paduthunnayi..




idhaite too bad. assala ee kaalam lo untunnamo ardham kavatam ledhu. alanti vallani emi chesina tappu ledhu. ee jail lo pettatam lantivi kakunda open ga nadi road meedha raallatho kottinchi champinchali, appudu gani migilinavallaki bayam raadhu.
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vaghela ki overall manchi perey undhi ani naa opinion.....(evadu adagaka poyinaa)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
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Ippudu Ok gani, elections ki mundhu people like ramoji atleast should have written this in first page itself indicating the people why to vote for Modi


Most surprising is, this came in "The Hindu"!!
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Pavala:

why wagheka langaa lo dhooren being a hardcore RSS man?


He wanted power. But Guj BJP lo aa time lo chaala mandi leaders unnaru CM post ki. Opportune moment chusukoni Cong lo ki dookesadu, as he knew he will be the tallest leader there. Alage 2004-14, Cong lo central ministry kuda icharu. After a while, once Cong is totally dead in Guj, he may jump back to BJP! :D
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Enduku ilantivi highlight cheyyaru Media lo, ekkado evaro article raayatam tappinchi.

Ippudu Ok gani, elections ki mundhu people like ramoji atleast should have written this in first page itself indicating the people why to vote for Modi
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edho okati ehes......

content bagundhi.....positve content......adhey important....

denemma last few days new pedithey......rapes thappa yemi levu......daarunam ga ayiniyai.......last one week lo......ponu ponu......chaala disturbing cases bayata paduthunnayi.....
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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keka kadha. To be honest India is Lucky to have Modi as PM, not the otherway round. Ippatikippudu puttinchina article kaadhu anataniki 1995 article kuda undhi antunnaru. GREAT
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tilakam gootle
why wagheka langaa lo dhooren being a hardcore RSS man?
fortune 500 company kante better supply chain and logistics unnai vallaki... ittanti entrepreneurship ni encourage cheyali - Bangarappa about Gali Johnny
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Tilak:




Facebook lo Narasimha kurrod shared..reason for delay
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Public ki inko link click chese time undo ledo telvadu kada...anduke all matter in one post annattu


ctrl c ctrl v chesinappudu garbled text vasthundi which is off-putting while reading
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Raju garu .. mee news articles 2 days late untunnayi .. :-)
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by the way, waghela kurrod langa loki endhuku dhooraado 2 mukkal ettandi
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link ettandi raju goru
fortune 500 company kante better supply chain and logistics unnai vallaki... ittanti entrepreneurship ni encourage cheyali - Bangarappa about Gali Johnny
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Public ki inko link click chese time undo ledo telvadu kada...anduke all matter in one post annattu :D
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wow.....good read......
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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hindu link isthe saripoyedi kada
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Of two co-travellers who surprised the writer with their graciousness, 24 years ago
It was the summer of 1990. As Indian Railway (Traffic) Service probationers, my friend and I travelled by train from Lucknow to Delhi. Two MPs were also travelling in the same bogie. That was fine, but the behaviour of some 12 people who were travelling with them without reservation was terrifying. They forced us to vacate our reserved berths and sit on the luggage, and passed obscene and abusive comments. We cowered in fright and squirmed with rage. It was a harrowing night in the company of an unruly battalion; we were on edge, on the thin line between honour and dishonour. All other passengers seemed to have vanished, along with the Travelling Ticket Examiner.

We reached Delhi the next morning without being physically harmed by the goons, though we were emotionally wrecked. My friend was so traumatised she decided to skip the next phase of training in Ahmedabad and stayed back in Delhi. I decided to carry on since another batchmate was joining me. (She is Utpalparna Hazarika, now Executive Director, Railway Board.) We boarded an overnight train to Gujaratâs capital, this time without reservations as there wasnât enough time to arrange for them. We had been wait-listed.

We met the TTE of the first class bogie, and told him how we had to get to Ahmedabad. The train was heavily booked, but he politely led us to a coupe to sit as he tried to help us. I looked at the two potential co-travellers, two politicians, as could be discerned from their white khadi attire, and panicked. âTheyâre decent people, regular travellers on this route, nothing to worry,â the TTE assured us. One of them was in his mid-forties with a normal, affectionate face, and the other in his late-thirties with a warm but somewhat impervious expression. They readily made space for us by almost squeezing themselves to one corner.

They introduced themselves: two BJP leaders from Gujarat. The names were told but quickly forgotten as names of co-passengers were inconsequential at that moment. We also introduced ourselves, two Railway service probationers from Assam. The conversation turned to different topics, particularly in the areas of History and the Polity. My friend, a post-graduate in History from Delhi University and very intelligent, took part. I too chipped in. The discussion veered around to the formation of the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League.

The senior one was an enthusiastic participant. The younger one mostly remained quiet, but his body language conveyed his total mental involvement in what was being discussed, though he hardly contributed. Then I mentioned Syama Prasad Mookerjeeâs death, why it was still considered a mystery by many. He suddenly asked: âHow do you know about Syama Prasad Mookerjee?â I had to tell him that when my father was a post-graduate student in Calcutta University, as its Vice-Chancellor he had arranged a scholarship for the young man from Assam. My father often reminisced about that and regretted his untimely death [in June 1953 at the age of 51].

The younger man then almost looked away and spoke in a hushed tone almost to himself: âItâs good they know so many things ...â

Suddenly the senior man proposed: âWhy donât you join our party in Gujarat?â We both laughed it off, saying we were not from Gujarat. The younger man then forcefully interjected: âSo what? We donât have any problem on that. We welcome talent in our State.â I could see a sudden spark in his calm demeanour.

The food arrived, four vegetarian thalis. We ate in silence. When the pantry-car manager came to take the payment, the younger man paid for all of us. I muttered a feeble âthank youâ, but he almost dismissed that as something utterly trivial. I observed at that moment that he had a different kind of glow in his eyes, which one could hardly miss. He rarely spoke, mostly listened.

The TTE then came and informed us the train was packed and he couldnât arrange berths for us. Both men immediately stood up and said: âItâs okay, weâll manage.â They swiftly spread a cloth on the floor and went to sleep, while we occupied the berths.

What a contrast! The previous night we had felt very insecure travelling with a bunch of politicians, and here we were travelling with two politicians in a coupe, with no fear.

The next morning, when the train neared Ahmedabad, both of them asked us about our lodging arrangements in the city. The senior one told us that in case of any problem, the doors of his house were open for us. There was some kind of genuine concern in the voice or the facial contours of the otherwise apparently inscrutable younger one, and he told us: âIâm like a nomad, I donât have a proper home to invite you but you can accept his offer of safe shelter in this new place.â

We thanked them for that invitation and assured them that accommodation was not going to be a problem for us.

Before the train came to a stop, I pulled out my diary and asked them for their names again. I didnât want to forget the names of two large-hearted fellow passengers who almost forced me to revise my opinion about politicians in general. I scribbled down the names quickly as the train was about to stop: Shankersinh Vaghela and Narendra Modi.

I wrote on this episode in an Assamese newspaper in 1995. It was a tribute to two unknown politicians from Gujarat for giving up their comfort ungrudgingly for the sake of two bens from Assam. When I wrote that, I didnât have the faintest idea that these two people were going to become so prominent, or that I would hear more about them later. When Mr. Vaghela became Chief Minister of Gujarat in 1996, I was glad. When Mr. Modi took office as Chief Minister in 2001, I felt elated. (A few months later, another Assamese daily reproduced my 1995 piece.) And now, he is the Prime Minister of India.

Every time I see him on TV, I remember that warm meal, that gentle courtesy, caring and sense of security that we got that night far from home in a train, and bow my head.

(The author is General Manager of the Centre for Railway Information System, Indian Railways, New Delhi. leenasarma@rediffmail.com)

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