The media scene in Andhra Pradesh, especially Hyderabad is any geeky media student's wet dream. The series of 'unfortunate' events in AP is as follows:

2nd September 2009: Helicopter crash of YS Rajasekhar Reddy, the chief minister of CM:
3rd September '09: K Rosiah swears in as the (temp)CM
- Is followed by hue and cry of many many YS Jagan(late CM's son) supporters to make Jagan the CM. Rosiah's appointment as the permanent CM of AP is followed by many a Jagan followers resigning their MLA positions.
- Rest and peace restored until K. Chandrasekhar Rao, former leader of Telangana Rashtra Smithi starts to make some very interesting comments which the media starts to paints a comic color to.

9th December 2009: KCR starts-stops-starts to fast for a separate Telangana state which ends on with a rather 'vague' statement from the central government .
This is followed by 165 MLAs(of 250 MLAs) resigning and expressing their demand for Samaikhyandhra - united Andhra state.

20th December 2009: Lagadapati Rajgopal - an MP and united AP protestor disappears from a Vijayawada hospital.

21st December: L Rajgopal reappears in NIMS - the same hospital in Hyderabad where KCR fasted.

23rd December, 2009: The Central government asks the MLAs consensus is needed before going ahead with the formalities of forming a separate state.

25th December, 2009: Meanwhile, ND Tiwari, the 87 year old governor of Andhra Pradesh is caught in a sex scandal

28th December, 2009: Government accepts ND Tiwari's resignation on 'health grounds' and appoints ESL Narasimhan as AP's governor.

8th January, 2010: Fans of YSR attack Reliance stores in the city based on a news report by a Telugu TV channel that claimed that Ambani plotted the crash.


5 years ago, about the same time now - I picked the topic '20 years of AP's politics' as my topic for presentation at my graduation in Political Science. I would love to be a naive BA student right now, trying to choose between so many exciting diverse topics from AP politics! Alas, the age of innocence and ignorance is long gone.. now it is time to sit in front of TV and watch three knucklehead politicians all talk at the same frikkin time and none of them making any sense anyway.