'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040'
'I want the Supreme Court to give directions to the government of Kerala that they must give protection to all those women who want to enter Sabarimala.'
'It was disappointing on two counts. One is on the leadership issue and second is how the Congress must win elections.'
'... as has been happening in the last three weeks, then the foreign exchange reserves will not be comfortable to ensure that the rupee does not fall drastically.'
'Dr Shashi Tharoor by far is a much better choice.'
'Gone too soon, Astad, but I know whenever we meet in that world beyond, I will watch you dance.' Swarupa Dutt remembers a remarkable human being and a magnificent performer who left the world poorer when he passed into the ages on Thursday.
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
'We want Muslims to go about their work and business unhindered.' 'They should not get victimised and that will only come through the process of reconciliation.'
'303 seats ki sarkar has problems with a cartoonist.'
'Oh god, these workers will now spread the virus! Their only concern was to think about themselves.' 'The middle class was only concerned with flattening the curve of coronavirus and they were not bothered about how these workers live in one room with 10 people or 20 people.'
'Cultural nationalism or the victim card that you play is okay when people are well fed.' 'But if you are not well fed, then it puts a question mark (on your leadership).'
'Why did they attack us? What was our fault?' 'They killed a woman. They burnt down vehicles.' 'They pelted stones at us over a 45 km stretch. There was no police bandobast.'
'Every Indian knows why the BJP is targeting Hamid Ansari.'
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'South movies have the perfect script, the perfect action and the perfect romance.' 'That's why these films are running in theatres.'
'Most senior Congress leaders in Assam have a secret understanding with the BJP.' 'They are hobnobbing with the chief minister for their self-interest.'
'The PM of India was 20 km away from the Pakistan border and he is one of the persons under extreme threat from that country and they put his life in danger.'
'The cases have not reduced because the prosecution has found some other way to stop people from using their right to free speech.'
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
'It is not that I don't want to say "Jai Shri Ram".' I only said I will not say this slogan under any pressure.'
'People are questioning these highways and expressways in UP because ultimately, they want to get bread and butter first.'
'People with vested interests in the BJP don't want the Patels to get reservation.'
'Kejriwal tries to project that his party is not Hindu virodhi.'
'The government is saying that essential commodities are exempted, but on the ground there is no competent officer from the government who can say which is an essential commodity and which is not.'
>The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal
'We need to have a prosperous J-K, where all communities must prosper including Dogras, Gujjars, Sikhs, Muslims and Pandits.' 'Prosperity is the first signal of peace.'
'Right now, only religious groups of Hindus and Muslims are working on the ground.' 'The government is missing.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com tracks Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's project-launching spree with just about three months to go for the assembly election in India's most populous state.
'The government, through the media, is saying that everything is normal in Kashmir, but I just want them to give this in writing and let a judicial commission see it.
'Because of the Supreme Court judgment, I am being denied my freedom of religion.'
'Anurag Kashyap kept quiet for more than three years and now, he wants to become Devdas by making her tragedy his.'
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'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
'Why do the English-speaking class feel they are the only ones who are efficient in work?' 'My own mother was from a village and she was more efficient than me. She used to handle crises better than me.' 'We will have to come out of our elite perception of governance.'
'Destabilising the Yediyurappa government is not a cakewalk.' 'If he is destabilised, then the BJP will have problems in Karnataka.'
Amitabh Bachchan was preparing to pack up his bags and return to Allahabad if Zanjeer failed.
As the Aam Aadmi Party heads for a resounding win in Delhi, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf lists the reasons behind Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's triumph.
'The Congress can exist without (someone from) the Nehru-Gandhi family being its president.'
'That would be very bad for them and suicidal for both the Gandhis and the Congress party.'
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
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