'ISRO is resilient enough to spring back and come with a solution quickly.'
'You will not have a vaccine for everyone initially.'
'This is an issue that is larger than the interests of any one party.'
'Unless we get the health and economic situations right at the same time, we will not recover.'
'We need not worry about the market. If we do the right things, the market will come around,' says economist Raja Chelliah.
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
IIT-Madras director on the need for foreigners at IIT.
'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.'
'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.'
'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.'
'India is looking up as the future of the world in many ways,' says IIT-M Director Dr M S Ananth.
'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!'
'For the UDF, it will depend on how far Rahul Gandhi will succeed with the goodwill he has.' 'That will make a difference.'
'China can't stop any company from relocating to India.'
'...signatures.' 'But such signatures are missing in this virus.'
'It is a political failure, and not a medical failure.'
'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.'
'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.'
''None of the existing vaccines have 100% efficacy.' 'Each vaccine will work openly on a certain percentage of the population.'
'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'
'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.'
'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.'
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
'She used to call me every day to check whether I was all right. You know how mothers are!'
'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.'
'We behaved as if this disease is not a problem for India.' 'We acted as if it would go away. But it didn't go away; it exploded.'
'Even after vaccines are given, precautions like using a mask and maintaining social distancing have to be taken.'
'We still need a certain number of large public sector banks for financial inclusion and stability purposes.'
'We keep worrying about this variant or that variant. Forget about that.' 'Every variant can be stopped with a mask.' 'We don't want to do the simple thing of wearing a mask, but we worry ourselves to death about different variants.'
'... while leaving the dirty work he orders to his subordinates.'
'If we take such an approach, we may find ourselves in a tough situation.' 'COVID-19 doesn't spread through water or air or mosquito; it only spreads from person to person.' 'We should make wearing a mask as part of our life.'
'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.
'Yoga can increase the volume of hippocampus and improve memory.'
'The last three decades were the era of D, where D stands for deforestation, destruction, degradation, disaster, damages, diseases, difficulties... and finally it leads to death.'
'The government has failed to understand the seriousness of the situation, and that's why they are underestimating the problem.' 'They think some tinkering here and there will fix the economy automatically.'
For 'a person who has dedicated his life to teaching students, guiding them to restoring monuments and preserving our built heritage, I never dreamt that my home will one day be demolished.'
'...that has plants and flowers of all colours and hues in it.' 'Do you think a garden with just one plant or one type of flower will be appealing?' 'No. It will look drab, uninteresting and lustreless because a garden would be captivating only if it had many flowers of different colours.'
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