'People are enjoying freedom in everyday life because of their sacrifice.'
'They mean business, but business as usual is unacceptable to them'
'This was textbook emergency response under stress.'
Prem Bihari Narain Raizada wrote 145,000 words in flowing italic styles. It took him 6 months and hundreds of nibs.
'What we are witnessing is not a freak incidence or a freak occurrence, but a new climate reality where warming oceans, monsoon variability and local geography are combining to produce extreme events.'
'Militants are taking over the administration. Fundamentalists have been released from jail.'
The glorious singer is simply sensational at 77 and we just love her!
'What's currently underway is not a 'reset'.' 'What needs to be arrived at is a new balance.'
'The Pakistanis knew there was only one route up and they could take direct aim at us as we climbed up.' 'They knew they could kill us.'
In a composed and clear presentation, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi announced that nine terrorist facilities had been destroyed in the tri-services operation.
'With the US having entered the war, raising the risks of a wider conflict, those impacts could be even more damaging.'
The first national flag in Independent India was hoisted at Fort St George in Madras, not at Delhi's Red Fort.
'Humanly impossible for the switches to turn from on to off at rapid succession within one second'
'Pakistan is economically very weak and will not be able to sustain a war for long.'
To see the happiness on their faces that only a travel experience can bring is priceless.
'New Delhi is not naive about its foreign policy choices.'
'BJP has shown that it can win even when Mr Modi is not the main figure on the ticket unlike 2014 to 2019.'
'Looking at how quickly the hostilities were escalating, the nuclear threshold did not seem that far.'
Major Padmapani Acharya was awarded the Mahavir Chakra for his courage in the Kargil War.
'The Pakistani government's growing fear of Dr Mahrang's rising popularity is evident.' 'Her defiance is inspiring.'
'I have had occasion to work with Bill Gates as a young engineer, and am one of the few people in India who has interacted with Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison.' 'I have worked with Andy Grove at Intel, so I know what bright and great people are like, but Modiji is a different level of perfection.'
'The government's priority is not farmers.'
'5465 was over 17,000 feet -- our eyes were out of the sockets by the time we got to the top.' 'We had not eaten in 2-3 days and climbed in extremely difficult terrain.' 'I was there for 5-6 days, but had to be evacuated because I started vomiting blood.'
'Something very drastic must have happened.'
'Pakistan will also try to turn Bangladesh into a base for terrorist attacks on India.'
'Trump is likely being purposefully vague, hoping that this lack of clarity will pressure India, fearing the worst, to agree to scale back its imports of Russian oil.'
'Munir is clearly insecure and hence he needs the prop of a field marshal.'
'We are now in a situation where our country is not yet free.' 'China is still very strong and militarily powerful.' 'In such a situation, we need the Dalai Lama to bring about a resolution to the cause of Tibet.' 'That's one of the main reasons that at age 90, he has accepted that there should be a 15th Dalai Lama after him.'
'The Congress wants to distort the very fabric of Indian society because they are obsessed with vote bank politics.'
'When I stepped down from the (United Nations) secretary general's race, the first visitor I had was a former minister of the Vajpayee government inviting me to the join the BJP.'
'The Pakistani State has to realise that the pigeons have come home to roost.'
'Unlike the surgical strikes and the Balakot air strikes across the LoC, we have gone further inside Pakistan and raised the bar of escalation.'
'Trump's sons, and the son of Trump's Mideast envoy Steven Witkoff, are in the crypto business and recently signed deals with Pakistan's crypto council.' 'It may not be coincidental that not long before the Trump-Munir meeting, the head of Pakistan's crypto council met with Trump's White House crypto policy czar.'
'Please don't worry about casualties. It is a professional hazard beyond our control,' wrote Kargil Hero Major Padmapani Acharya in his last letter from the battlefield.
Briti Chatterjee sings Bangla folk songs on her handmade Dotara. This Durga Pujo, she is booked for 17 shows in pandals across Kolkata.
What tasks they accomplished, how they stayed fit, what did they eat, whom did they meet, what they brought back... amazing stories from an epic voyage.
'It was pitch-dark when we rounded Cape Horn. The waves were coming in full force. It was like a washing machine - -both of us and our boat Tarini.' Naval officer Lt Cdrs Dilna and Roopa describe their amazing voyage around the globe.
Acharya Jonas Masetti, a Vedanta scholar from Brazil, was awarded the Padma Shri for teaching the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit, Yoga, Meditation and Indian spiritualism abroad.
'Surgical strikes or air strikes, or both, are likely on the table.'
'...without massive amounts of force.'
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