'There were many experts around me,' A Ganesh Nadar discovers at the India-Pakistan hockey game. 'One of them was explaining to his neighbour, that fellow is a good dragger and flicker, that fellow is a penalty corner specialist, that fellow is a penalty specialist, that fellow is a very good defender, etc, freely dispensing with his expert knowledge.'
'They said that my leaving for the Quit India Movement event would be a threat to law and order so I should not leave the police station and to be stationed there till the time they do not get permission.'
Freedom fighter Dr G G Parikh, activists Tushar Gandhi and Teesta Setalvad were prevented from reaching the August Kranti Maidan on Wednesday morning by the Mumbai police.
'Who is the aggressor and who is the victim is not clear, each blames the other.'
'The situation is so bad that it is not possible for me to explain in words how bad the conditions are for the common man of Manipur.'
'Hygiene is very bad, there is no medicine and there is no electricity.' 'I fear that there will be a breakout of some disease.'
'Government supplied public services are less likely to be found in neighbourhoods with high numbers of Scheduled Castes and Muslims.'
'We cannot leave our entire unorganised sector to the vagaries of market forces.'
'Every Congressman in Rajasthan is in Ashok Gehlot's pocket.'
'They could have told the media that there is nothing in it and let me read it out.'
'We have to change the Dravidian influence on the people.'
'We cannot accept that this incident was not in the knowledge of the home ministry.' 'If they had no knowledge about this incident, then it is a big intelligence failure as the Union home ministry has no idea what is going on in Manipur and what the state police is doing.'
'UCC should be across India and legally applicable to every Indian citizen.'
'A very large part of this would have come from opium.'
'People tell us openly that in 2024 we will vote for Modi.'
'I have never seen a common man tapping a chief minister on the shoulder and giving him his petition, like needing money for a child admitted in a hospital.'
'I did get a couple of offers (in Hindi cinema) but the roles required a doll-like heroine, a glamorous role. I was getting challenging roles in the South and so I stayed here.'
'The buildings all around had caved in or were damaged. The trees were all uprooted. Things were very scary.'
My grandfather Ashok Kumar made me sack my secretary as he thought she was a bad influence in my life.'
'You should enjoy acting; you should have a passion for it. Only then should you go for it.'
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