'INDIA will easily cross 50 seats out of 90 in Jammu and Kashmir.'
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
'Afzal Guru became a victim of Pakistan's conspiracy. He was used as a means, just like all other innocent Kashmiris.'
'We want to ensure that no government in J&K will be formed without our support.'
'If the country felt very strongly about the BJP, then why did the country not put money where the mouth is?'
Tral, the former hotbed of terrorism, rocks to the music of democracy.
'The wave of terrorism is over in Kashmir. Local people do not support it.'
'Who are Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to issue certificates?'
In 2022 Nanaji Dembi pulled down the Hurriyat office board in Srinagar, an act of defiance that grabbed headlines. Despite such nationalistic bravado, the BJP has denied him a ticket for the assembly election.
'Modi knows the people here are opposed to this project, but he is using the might of government to push this port down our throats.'
If Rashid cannot be the king, he could be the kingmaker after October 8 when the results to the J&K assembly are declared.
'We called him Sher-e-Kashmir but we realised he was no lion but a pussycat who surrendered.'
Mumbai's historic tryst with the Lord of Wisdom began at the Keshavji Naik Chawl in 1893.
At Srinagar's famed Lal Chowk, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf meets a computer engineer who drives an auto for a living and discovers that Kashmiris are more interested in finding jobs than discussing the assembly election.
'The intellectual A G Noorani and A G Noorani the family man sound like a contradiction in terms, but both aspects were integral parts of the individual.'
'We put the seed of BJP's ideology in Jammu, watered it, nurtured it for four decades and when it was time to reap the fruits of those efforts, the fruits are being sold out to the very same people who worked hard to uproot this tree.' 'Shockingly, our own people are letting this happen and nobody from Delhi bothers to even listen to us.'
'We are not secessionists, we want to coexist with our countrymen but not on the terms that will strip us off our dignity and a right to peaceful existence.'
'The dominance of her party also meant that the institutions became lopsided -- whether it was the bureaucracy or the courts or the military.' 'She centralised power to the extent that you would see her representatives or her party office bearers having overly represented in these institutions.' 'That perhaps would have been the biggest blunder that she committed.'
'Religion and extremism is going to be a big force, a very important force, in Bangladesh's politics.'
'We are in a dilemma if the central government supports this ethnic violence and Biren Singh.'
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