'What do the moves towards protectionism suggest?' 'That we do not have Aatmavishwas.' 'If you have self-confidence, confidence in your ability to compete with the best in the world, why do you need protectionism?'
'If you want to know the discontented youth of India, you have to only look at the Maoist, Naxalite movements. The attitude of the State is, crush the movement. I would say 'no' to this. They are our children. I wouldn't equate Naxalism or Maoism in India with terrorism'
'We have struggled to pay the rent, we have struggled to pay the electricity bill, we have struggled to send them to school, to buy books and uniforms but there was food on the table every day!'
'The virus has been ahead of us till now, and we have been chasing the virus.' 'It is time we have to be a step ahead of the virus, and this is possible only by checking the oxygen level.'
The Vice Chancellor of Anna University, Coimbatore, Dr R Radhakrishnan made history by announcing that his university would provide free engineering education to brilliant economically poor students who cannot afford engineering education. An interview.
'We need not worry about the market. If we do the right things, the market will come around,' says economist Raja Chelliah.
'We need to prove to the world that quality vaccines and R&D are possible in India.'
'This is an issue that is larger than the interests of any one party.'
'We will see a kind of disaster which the country has not seen in the last 100 years.'
'When restaurants are open, pubs are open and people are moving around, a second wave will happen because you are giving a chance for the virus to spread.'
IIT-Madras director on the need for foreigners at IIT.
'The only reason why these troubling developments are taking place is because of a certain arrogance of power displayed by this government that hopes to clamp down on those voices which have repeatedly pointed out that their bloated rhetoric and grandstanding are not matched by their insipid and tepid response in matters of governance.'
'How ironic that a party that seeks to arrogate the mantle of nationalism to itself is actually behaving like the imperial oppressors.'
'Unless we get the health and economic situations right at the same time, we will not recover.'
'You will not have a vaccine for everyone initially.'
'This is happening regardless of the Budget.'
'India is looking up as the future of the world in many ways,' says IIT-M Director Dr M S Ananth.
'ISRO is resilient enough to spring back and come with a solution quickly.'
'Mr (Gautam) Adani invested in Vizhinjam port when no other viable party was willing to bid.' 'He has also been active in charitable work and CSR projects in our coastal areas.' 'As the local MP, I do not judge the local situation purely through the prism of politics.'
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
'How many people have died in India so far due to Covid?' 'Multiply that by at least four, and that many people in intense grief are there in the country.'
'If we again become complacent at the end of the second wave, we are going to suffer more as it will be even more intense.'
'China can't stop any company from relocating to India.'
'For the UDF, it will depend on how far Rahul Gandhi will succeed with the goodwill he has.' 'That will make a difference.'
'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!'
'It is a political failure, and not a medical failure.'
'If the meditative yoga programme we had developed for the elderly was practised for one hour every day, five days in a week for six months, it could lead to an improvement in the overall quality of life of the elderly.'
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
'WHO has been under a lot of attack, so when they saw the Lancet study, they stopped the clinical trials of HCQ.' 'They should not have stopped the clinical trials.'
'No matter how much you fast track, you cannot say, here is a highly efficient vaccine even by the middle of next year or the end of next year'
'...signatures.' 'But such signatures are missing in this virus.'
''None of the existing vaccines have 100% efficacy.' 'Each vaccine will work openly on a certain percentage of the population.'
'If Kerala votes back the LDF, if Tamil Nadu brings the DMK and if Bengal votes for the Trinamool, we will project a formidable opposition to the BJP.'
'There is a Covid vaccine-mania that is happening in the world now and the vaccine makers are using this mania for their own gains'
'The question is, how soon we can expect to re-attain the pre-lockdown levels of output and income.'
'Just see what kind of political, social and economic impact it will have when the number of unemployed goes up four times in one year suddenly.'
'She used to call me every day to check whether I was all right. You know how mothers are!'
'Whatever Kamala is today, it is because of my sister.' 'My sister inculcated South Indian culture and values in her,' Dr Sarala Gopalan, US Senator-electKamala Harris' maternal aunt, tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier in Chennai.
'Better hygiene practices could lower a person's immunity and make the person susceptible to auto-immune diseases.'
'When an individual becomes authoritarian, you can overthrow the individual easily. 'When the system becomes authoritarian, whoever challenges the system will be called a criminal or an anti-national.'
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