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- Hyderabad
Operation Polo: How the annexation of Hyderabad unfolded on Sept 17, 1948
Hyderabad: War, merger, liberation, annexation, take over etc are a bunch of words that different people with differing views on the subject of Operation Polo or Police Action use. The term is…
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September 13, 1948: Operation Polo and the politicisation of Hyderabad’s history
Hyderabad: For the longest time there was a silence maintained by the central and state governments when it came to events surrounding the annexation of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad to…
- Opinions
Documentary review: Police Action 1948 and the trauma of remembrance
Hyderabad: Fugitive traces of memory from the horrors of the 1948 annexation lurk in parts of Hyderabad, obscured by time and history. When Pomegranate Turns Grey, produced by Maktoob Originals and directed…
- India
NCW condemns lewd comment on photo of slain soldier’s widow, demands probe
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has identified lewd and derogatory comments made by a social media user on a photo of Kirit Chakra Captain Anshuman Singh’s widow. The NCW, which reviews…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: EFLU students detained as cops attempt to foil hunger strike
Hyderabad: At least 7 students of English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) were reportedly detained by the police as they began their indefinite hunger strike on Monday, November 6, over the administration’s disregard…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad Police Action: Owaisi slams Shah for ‘lying like Nehru’
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief on Monday slammed Home Minister Amit Shah and accused him of “lying like India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.” The remarks came shortly after Union home…
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Hyderabad 1948: Military Intervention or Police Action or a Polo Match?
When Dosabhoy Framji Karaka, the Bombay-based veteran war correspondent of British India, wrote about the finer military details of Operation Polo, not only was he implying that the brief war was named…
- India
Police action against Rahul Gandhi a cowardly act by Modi govt: Maha Cong chief
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has said the police action against party leader Rahul Gandhi was a “cowardly” act by the panic-stricken Narendra Modi government. He said the prime minister’s attempt…
- Videos
Hyderabadis talk about Police Action/Operation Polo 1948
Hyderabad: The Siasat Daily went around the city to talk to a few people about police action/operation polo that was the official annexation of Hyderabad state into union of India.
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‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’: The significance of Operation Polo for India
By Pankaj Sethi Hyderabad: V P Menon, Secretary in the Ministry of States, was the man tasked by then Union Home Minister Sardar Patel (in 1947) to ensure that the Princely States…
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Operation Polo: Remembering it would open old wounds
Hyderabad: Come September and the political temperature rises in Hyderabad. What generates heat is the million dollar question: was Hyderabad liberated or merged? Like the who came first, chicken- or egg-conundrum the…
- Opinions
Operation Polo: Integration of Hyderabad into Indian Union
In 1947, when the British left and India became Independent, the princely states had the choice/option to either join India or Pakistan or remain independent. Being one state not under the British…
- Telangana
Remembering Telangana’s Ravi Narayan Reddy, the 1st to enter India’s Parliament
By Vijay Burgula Hyderabad: The first Lok Sabha was constituted on the April 17, 1952 ,after India’s first General Election and as historian Ramachandra Guha notes in his book ‘India After Gandhi’:…
