The dedicated band of district correspondents

For five decades, the district correspondents chronicled the changing face of united Andhra Pradesh, taking the newspaper beyond capitals and corridors of power into villages, conflict zones and remote hinterlands. From painstaking trunk-call filings to laptops and digital reporting, they brought grassroots voices, rural concerns, political shifts, social movements and crises to readers, becoming the quiet pillars of the newspaper’s credibility and legacy. They laid the foundation for what…