'The Election Commission cannot be regulated by the government.'
'I love to meet people.' 'I love that personal connect when they express their genuine, heartfelt feelings.'
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.
'Not disclosing information to the public indicates that there is something wrong with Project Cheetah.'
'There is some deep rot that has set in the Congress party. This requires an organisational surgery.'
Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam are blind and beautiful in Kaabil.
Shankar is India's answer to Hollywood, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Congress leaders are ready to lose the election and not form the government, but are never ready to share seats with others.'
'...or go to jail.' 'The government is getting them silenced.'
'Under this amendment, in any dispute over Waqf properties, the Waqf Board cannot approach the court.' 'This is very surprising because the government instead of protecting Waqf properties they are snatching it away and not allowing them to go to court.' 'The third biggest landowner in India is the Waqf Board after the Indian Army and Indian Railways.'
Varun Dhawan excels in the Judwaa 2 trailer.
'They made so many toppers in NEET that automatically the paper leak issue got exposed.' 'The first mistake they did was announcing 67 toppers in NEET. No way this figure was possible.' 'The maximum numbers of toppers that you can have are two or three at best every year.'
'These girls are sold to brothels because their parents are unable to repay their loans to money-lenders.'
If you're young and depressed, and don't know where your life is heading, Naseeruddin Shah seems to have the answer.
'Akhilesh Yadav made voters think why is the BJP asking for 400 paar.' 'They understood his words and believed the BJP wanted 400 paar only to demolish the Constitution and end reservations.'
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
'The situation is so bad that it is not possible for me to explain in words how bad the conditions are for the common man of Manipur.'
Can Jitin Prasada retain the BJP's Brahmin vote in UP?
'The BJP will not win a single seat in Punjab.'
'The wave of terrorism is over in Kashmir. Local people do not support it.'
'We accept EVMs cannot be hacked because it is not connected, but can they be manipulated?' 'Are you allowing us to check if EVMs can be manipulated?'
'Modi will do himself a favour if he starts studying about Mahatma Gandhi.' 'I feel pity that we have a PM who has no idea of our own history.'
Ahead of the floor test in Maharashtra, what is more crucial is who becomes the pro-tem speaker. And bagging this post is part of the BJP's plan to retain power, reports Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com/
Kapil Sharma: I'm Not Done Yet is truly outstanding, applauds Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'All of these guys who are opposing the Supreme Court judgment are from dominant scheduled caste communities and none of them come from the scavenging community.' 'Not a single scavenging leader will oppose this Supreme Court judgment.'
And one big, angry family, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'If a Brahmin child by birth is poor then he must get reservation benefits rather than an OBC child who is rich and born in a rich family.'
'There is a huge wait in Kashmir for compassion from the prime minister of India.'
...It was original, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Heavy rains are not the primary reason for landslides in Wayanad.' 'There are all sorts of (human) intervention going on in that area.'
'Nowhere does the CAA state that Muslims will be deprived of their Indian citizenship.'
This Web series is more about wine, opium, sex, more sex, gay love and incest, rues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'...but subjecting our heritage to rigorous evidence-based understanding.'
'Rahul Gandhi is raising the issue of a caste census though his party has been doing injustice on this front from the 1950s.'
'This bitterness will be more in Jammu area than in Kashmir.'
'Hindutva will not win any elections. Hindutva as a political plank never works.'
'If Kejriwal is adamant on running his government from jail, then his government could be dismissed and Article 356 imposed on Delhi, in other words President's rule in Delhi.'
You neither get goosebumps nor the adrenaline rush of desh bhakti, which a film like Sardar Udham should give every Indian, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Every Haryana assembly seat has its own unique problems to earn victory for a political party and you as a politician need to know what are those issues and tackle it.'
Regardless of its commercial success, as an Indian, one needs to watch the story of this unsung hero, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.