Shobha Warrier has extensively covered the Sabarimala issue for Rediff.com. She is the author of His Days with Bapu: Gandhi's Personal Secretary Recalls among several books. You can e-mail the author at shobhaw@rediff.co.in
'The ban on Chinese imports is a suicidal step.' 'This will result not only in economic depression, but in a chaotic situation.'
'When you start distributing wealth, you end up distributing poverty.'
'When the country is jobless, why should I pay through my nose to feed these people who want some perks in office?' 'Let them also join India's unemployed.' 'Let them also taste the bitter medicine of being jobless.'
'No matter how much the political pressure is, I cannot say I will bring the Moon for you tomorrow!'
'We are going ahead with the trials assuming what we have is the vaccine.' 'There is also a chance that what you have is not the vaccine. Then, you have to go back to the drawing board again.' 'So far, there has been no success in developing a good vaccine against coronaviruses.' 'That's why there are hundreds of trials going on at different stages in different parts of the world.'
'If people use the mask properly, we can confidently say that this is as protective as the best mask in the market.'<
'Wastewater containing excreted material can tell us how a community is doing in a particular area pertaining to any epidemic, pandemic, and other bacterial and viral diseases.'
'We need to prove to the world that quality vaccines and R&D are possible in India.'
'Saying the private industry will come and transform India's space programme is real moonshine!'
'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'
'Have you met anyone who said "I will not boycott Chinese products"?'
'China can't stop any company from relocating to India.'
'In India, A3i is found mostly in southern India, and a few in Delhi. You don't see this strain much in, say, Gujarat or Maharashtra.'
'There is lack of demand because people have no jobs, and no income.' 'Lakhs of people have lost their jobs and they have no income which has led to no demand in the market.'
'Unless we get the health and economic situations right at the same time, we will not recover.'
'WHO has been under a lot of attack, so when they saw the Lancet study, they stopped the clinical trials of HCQ.' 'They should not have stopped the clinical trials.'
'When there is a change in the wind speed or the stress exerted on the surface, it will change the ocean currents.'
'It is because we treat them as our own people, and there is no difference between owners and workers here.'
'The government lights lamps for nurses but when we demand what's due for us, they don't listen at all.'
'By the time the goods that were sent from December onwards reached stores in Europe, they became dead inventory as the stores there were closed by then.' 'Those that were in the warehouse there also became dead inventory. Those that reached the ports there also became dead inventory.' 'And what Tirupur produced in March is still here, and they have also become dead inventory.'
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