'When we reached there only a small portion of the boat was above water and people were desperately clinging on to it.'
'India is using Hasina to warn the Yunus government because there is a ground support for the Awami League in Bangladesh.'
'The government is saying 88 Hindus have been killed, but it could be much more.' 'Their properties are being looted, their businesses have been ransacked. I am getting distress calls from there.' 'Muslims who believe in the philosophy of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are also under attack. Most of those who have fled Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina's fall are Muslims.'
'Women and children were crying desperately for help.' 'We had to save them first.'
'We pressurised him (to accept the deputy chief ministership).' 'Being out of power would have made him weaker.'
'If you are going to make undeserving MLAs as ministers, then why should sincere and hard-working people like us continue?'
A great admirer of Raj Kapoor's film songs, senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai says his all-time Raj Kapoor favourite song is the magical duet Pyar Hua Iqrar Hua.
'I will continue to donate blood till I am healthy.'
'...to think apna time aa gaya after the 2024 election.'
'Senior Vatican officials were pleasantly surprised at the number of Indians who had come to witness the ceremony.'
'This is the first case in which we saw use of Starlink by smugglers.'
'Look at the post mortem reports. Every body (of the 10 Kuki-Zo youth who were killed) has almost 12 bullet marks on it.' 'Why do they have to fire so much even if they wanted to kill them?' 'One or two shots would be enough to kill them. Why then they had to fire so many bullets on them?'
'It is the first technology in history which is not just a tool, it is an agent.' Yuval Noah Harari on the dangers on AI.
'BJP has shown that it can win even when Mr Modi is not the main figure on the ticket unlike 2014 to 2019.'
...'hum decide karenge kaun banega mukhyamantri. This decision is not to be taken in Mumbai.'
'There is a difference between a politician and leader.' 'A politician will have his pound of flesh first and do everything else later.' 'A leader will sacrifice everything to help people.'
'Ajit Pawar is trying to sideline us; he is trying to be in the BJP's good books at our cost.'
'Slogans like 'Ek hai toh safe hai' and 'Batenge toh katenge' resonated with voters.'
At 13, Naseer Khan left Bihar to work in a saw-mill in Bhutan. He learnt the craft of making sofas, and some of the pieces he made found a place in the royal palace. He returned home after spending 35 years in the Himalayan kingdom, and has continued making sofas, restoring old furniture and creating wire-gutting chairs, all that has become a dying art now.
'If machines (EVMs) are so reliable, if our electoral system is so reliable, then why has the Election Commission so far not even responded to an ADR plea to share data of 79 (Lok Sabha) constituencies where there's a (alleged) dispute?'
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