'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.'
'Siddaramaiah was openly taking on the BJP's communal agenda, which very few non-BJP politicians do.'
'With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Hindus from Pakistan can come to India. They have got a way,' says Gurumukh Jagwani who came to India on his honeymoon, loved the country so much that he stayed back and got Indian citizenship.
'People of my constituency told me they will continue loving me, but will not vote for me if I am with the BJP.'
'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.'
'Since I was held at gunpoint I had no option but to give them the car keys.' 'They took the car and drove away.'
'We moved out just in time. The fire spread so fast.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
'Modi warned China, therefore they have come to the talks.' 'Nothing will come out of these talks.'
'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.' 'The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.'
'As far as I know, Sachin Pilotji is not going to the BJP.'
'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.'
'I am not sure of the numbers killed, but they were not as high as the use of the word 'genocide' suggests.' 'There is another meaning you could take, 'cultural genocide', in that the Pandit community is extremely small and their forced departure led to a wiping out of their culture.'
'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.'
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'If we want a stable society, then all groups must feel that they have a seat at the table of power.'
'William Mustoe, the director of horticulture during British rule, named the Presidential Palace garden after the Mughals.' 'He simply kept the name because it was made on the pattern of a Mughal garden.''He simply kept the name Mughal gardens because it was made on the pattern of Mughal garden.'
'Ajit Pawar's speech leaves no room for reconciliation.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
'The Indian government evacuated its citizens from the clutches of the Taliban and Covid-hit Wuhan, so I am not worried.'
'The BJP always said Rahul Gandhi is an 'air-conditioned leader', but after this yatra he has proved them wrong.'
'At present there might be at least 500 Indians stuck in Iran for various reasons and we have no idea when they will come back.'
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'All restaurants and pubs must treat the issue seriously and appoint safety officers. This chalta hai attitude cannot work.'
'I am very grateful to Rajnathji that he confirmed the fact that Savarkar was a habitual mercy-seeker from the British.'
'I would like to see Kharge include Shashi in the Congress Working Committee.' 'The other alternative is that the Congress will marginalise him.'
'If the Congress gets to form the government in 2024, then Sonia Gandhi by virtue of being CPP chairperson will have the authority to decide who will be the prime minister and not Kharge.'
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'Centres like polling booths can be set up for the area till the last adult is vaccinated -- open on all days from 9-9.' 'People should be able to come as per their convenience.'
'As the firing started everything went haywire.'
'The act of demolition, for whatever reason, was far too hasty without even giving an opportunity of an appeal.'
'We had to respect the sentiments of the people of Jammu as our party was elected from Jammu.'
'The place I used to sleep in the jail had a big window high up on the opposite side, where at sunrise and sunset time a bird would drop in every day.' 'It could be an eagle or a peacock. And sometimes a monkey.' 'Those moments calmed you, brought hope...'
'I am not the Manas Deka who attacked Kanhaiya,' says the BJP activist who shares the same name with the man who allegedly tried to 'strangle' the JNUSU leader.
'People will feel cheated as they always felt a part of India. We want to be with India and we want people of India to accept us.' Laway tells Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The Ever Given, which had 200,000 tonnes of cargo, was too long for the Suez Canal.'
'They did not spare the girls or teachers; they beat all of them.' 'We kept calling the police, but no one came.'
'If you want to change everything all of a sudden to polyester, then the production of khadi flags will come under trouble.'
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