'Investors should hold equity assets for 3 to 5 years.'
"What would be your advice for investors?" 'Keep it simple. Don't panic.'
'The (Collegium system of appointing judges) is absolutely whimsical.'
'Only if the Budget springs some surprises we may see a halt in the selling.'
'While the Budget would be growth-friendly, it would not come at the expense of an increase in the fiscal deficit.'
'When two organs of our Constitution, which are supposed to be the strongest pillars of Indian democracy, start mistrusting each other, then what is left of the country? What is left of democracy?'
'You may see some movement indicating a simpler tax regime with less exemptions but with fewer tax rates making life simpler for taxpayers.'
'What we are seeing is some bursts of a cold wave.' 'It comes, troubles you for three-four-five-days and thereafter relaxes for another few days.' 'And then another fresh one (cold wave) comes.'
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was in element at the Gateway of India.
'If you were to say today that the government should appoint judges to the high courts and Supreme Court, then I think that even those few good judges that we are getting today we would not get them.'
'Judges have families; they have their future to worry about.' 'In an atmosphere of fear, the judges are constantly under some kind of psychological pressure.' 'I have seen this is happening across the board in the country today.'
'We suggest investors with suitable risk appetite to consider allocating 40-50 per cent in large-caps, 25-30 per cent of funds in quality mid and small-caps and the rest in debt and high yield products.'
'When you are travelling in Mumbai when the air quality is bad, you feel suffocated.' 'You may feel uncomfortable breathing Delhi air, but the level of discomfort is higher in Mumbai.'
'Investors should continue to invest because you are looking at the long-term; in the next four to five years, we are bound to outperform (the rest of the world equity markets).'
'The Maharashtra government is not being very clear; they are keeping quiet.'
'People will teach a lesson to those who are compromising it for the sake of power and money.'
'The government is trying to give a message that we as political bosses have discretion of deciding what people will read and what people will not read.'
'Till such time climatic activities resume up north in the plains and the hills, Mumbai's air quality may not improve.'
'Only time will tell how difficult it would be for the BJP when Mr Modi may not be in a position to actively run affairs of the party and be its biggest vote catcher.'
'Then the BJP could even split.'
='The Gujarat results show a wide chasm between the issues facing the common people and the way the BJP engineers electoral successes.'
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