'This decision to go with the BJP is Kumaraswamy's individual decision and not a party decision.'
'If the central government does not give rights to the people of Ladakh, then it won't be good for our country.'
'We are very close to become a theocratic State where Hinduism is the official religion of the government.'
'Had they agreed to our demands that we raised two years ago, we would have never started our agitation again.'
'These kinds of tunnels are not meant for the Himalayas.' 'Development should be good for all people and not where you make a tunnel and 40 people get trapped.'
'And once someone is dead in a family the ritual is to shave your head.'
'The State does not accept our rights, what more can I say about this judgment?'
'Replacement of the CM with a more acceptable face may be a good start towards resolving Manipur's problem.'
'This award is funded by American money so I took this decision.'
'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.'
'Nobody wants to run an exploitation factory.'
'The Centre prevaricates on the question of effecting a change of state-level leadership or on the imposition of President's rule in the state.'
'As long as economic growth remains steady, creating jobs and generating stable incomes, the rise in home loans should not create problems.' 'If the growth trajectory changes course over the medium term and interest rates rise along with inflation, the expanding trend in home loans may not sustain.'
'A very large part of this would have come from opium.'
'Israelis not only harassed Palestine Muslims, but also Christians.' 'Palestinians have been telling Israel that this will blow up the situation, but they would not listen to us.'
'...by directing these draconian provisions against political and ideological opponents of the ruling group, minorities, and those who dare to dissent through and selective prosecution and prolonged incarceration as undertrials.'
'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
'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.'
'You will really wish oh! Had I stayed in Dharavi I would have got a nice house. I can assure you that. We will make dreams come true.'
Rohit Shetty gets so busy giving us a social message that he forgets to add a 'tadka' -- also called 'entertainment' -- to Cirkus, sighs Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'These new laws give complete (impunity) to the police.' 'Whatever little accountability the police had, all that is gone now.' 'There is no accountability mechanism against the police for abusing or misusing in the new laws.'
This Web series is more about wine, opium, sex, more sex, gay love and incest, rues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'They could have told the media that there is nothing in it and let me read it out.'
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
'The India which was all about glamour and razzmatazz through which he could earn the trust of people of the other India, which was Bharat.'
'It could backfire on the BJP and boost the Opposition parties.'
'Shivakumar is an andhbhakt of Congress ideology and principles.'
'For no other leader of India do so many people turn up for an event every year without invitation.'
'These girls are sold to brothels because their parents are unable to repay their loans to money-lenders.'
'Every Congressman in Rajasthan is in Ashok Gehlot's pocket.'
Dominic Xavier wonders whether Rhea is being made a scapegoat in a case which has clear political overtones.
'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.'
'The upper caste elite's belief that they are casteless is a belief that is available only to the upper castes. Because all the lower castes are reminded by society every day what their caste is.'
'If Israel had stuck to the peace accords, Hamas would have had no one to fight.'
'Apparently, the EC deals with such communications as mine in a summary manner, and it has no intention to conduct its affairs, as a quasi-judicial authority ought to.'
'The buildings all around had caved in or were damaged. The trees were all uprooted. Things were very scary.'
'People tell us openly that in 2024 we will vote for Modi.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
'Hindus have never been polarised across Maharashtra in any state election.'
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