'Today, the State looks at everyone with suspicion.'
'The Indian Army won't induct anyone who has killed Indian soldiers.' 'That's why the army respects these reformed men so much -- they're on the frontline now, protecting India.'
'You can say it was a moment that can be described as unimaginable or unbelievable.'
'Archaeological sites like Keeladi, having remained buried for 2,500 years, have come out and speak now.'
'At Keeladi, we have not come across any evidence for organised religion.'
'If anything happened out of the normal, there would be instantaneous ECAM, EICAS warnings, the master caution or master warnings going off.' 'It would be like a Christmas tree in the cockpit if things start going wrong.'
'Maharashtrians are facing a dual battle -- numerical battle with North Indians and financial battle with Gujaratis and Marwaris.' 'This has created anxiety about survival and ownership over Mumbai and Maharashtra.'
'In multi-pilot operations, no critical switch can be moved without the other pilot's consent.'
Bhagwat's 'retirement at age 75' comment lands just as he and Modi near that mark -- sparking whispers of retirement, rifts, and reshuffles.
'What is going on is the under counting of the migration population in urban areas.' 'It has been going on in the last few censuses.'
'Visualise those 15 to 18 seconds: Fully loaded aircraft, pilot manually controlling with both hands (no autopilot immediately after takeoff), looking forward while switches are behind.'
'...from the recovered part of the throttle quadrant -- the control panel that manages engine power -- it is hard to say at this stage if the locking mechanism was damaged in any way.'
'When there are glaring errors in the report, how can you trust anything in it?'
64 years after the Panshet Dam burst claimed 1,000 lives, the tragedy stands as both a haunting memory and a vital lesson in engineering caution.
Nineteen years later, remembering how terror struck Mumbai's lifeline on July 11, 2006.
'Who will answer for these lives crushed under their neglect?'
'You know the situation in Yemen now. There is no government there.' 'The rebels are in control. So, there is no diplomatic channel through which we can negotiate.'
'A man with a gun commanded respect. I thought if I also got a gun, I could save my family. With this thought, I went to Pakistan and got training there'
'The CBI did a wonderful job of tracking down the killers, but at the end of the day, all the hard work went for a toss.' 'If we had caught them alive, the operation would have been successful completely.'
'I don't know when, but I definitely want to see myself there -- maybe doing some action sequences.''
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