'PM Modi is not taking Kashmir's stance as far as the Naga issue is concerned.'
'Sachin Pilot had every legitimate right to demand to become CM.'
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
Rohith Vemula's suicide exposes all of us as a nation, argues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.' 'They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.'
'The Naxals started firing indiscriminately.' 'The whole jungle echoed with the sound of bullets.' 'The only thing I heard from that side was 'Chhodna kisi ko nahi (don't let anyone escape)'.'
'If people want to blackmail others to get information or harm things, so why will someone give them information?'
Narendra Modi's agenda is to build a Ram mandir, Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
'I don't believe that it beholds democracies like us who claim to be the largest democracy in the world, to have such a thin skin about the possibility of foreign commentary.'
'These atheist people wanted to finish the progress of Sabrimala temple devotees and now they are using this (the Supreme Court verdict) as a weapon to destroy the believers.'
'The Government of India could aggressively promote developmental projects that will alleviate poverty particularly in communities where South Africans of Indian origin and our black brothers and sisters live as neighbours.'
'If it is not possible for the Indian Railways to have separate non-vegetarian and vegetarian compartments, then what is the harm in railways serving only vegetarian food?'
'They are ABVP-phobic people. Tomorrow, they will say the US attack on Iran is because of the ABVP.'
'The Chinese have not crossed the LAC in Galwan.' 'They are on their side of the LAC and we are on our side.'
'Narendra Modi knows that the Congress without the Gandhis is a more formidable and more dangerous adversary.'
'Shraddha tries hard to rescue the film, but the script totters so badly in the second half that any salvage seems impossible,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Just keep telling people that we have fixed the Muslims, and they will not be bothered about their empty stomachs or empty wallets.'
'It will take a long time for people's memory to be misled by a prime minister who is so arrogant and who refuses to acknowledge his own faults.'
'We were expecting at least they would be held guilty, but instead they have gone scot-free'
'No action will be taken against Ajit Pawar. I am sure.'
'Crony capitalism will gain due to these Acts.'
An unemployed migrant becomes a much sought after Baba right before Syed Firdaus Ashraf's eyes.
'They are calling me an accused without even an inquiry.' 'The video was fabricated and doctored. Now the truth is coming out.'
Amjed Ullah Khan, who carried out investigations of his own and helped rescue 15 women from Hyderabad, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com how the women get trapped in an underground slave market that 'sells' them to employers who force them to work for less or no pay and often under inhuman conditions.
'God knows what kind of charges were framed against him and Kallu Gujjar, as both of them came out of jail the very same evening of their arrest.'
From July 27, 2017, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf, my daughter will have to learn that there are only two most important things in life: Power and money.
It was Dev Anand's dream to put Indian cinema on the world map and he thought Guide was the perfect film for it.
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
'This is a crisis which did not happen overnight. It was happening slowly.' 'Now we are mining very fast and this crisis won't last long.'
'On the Kashmir and Pakistan question, it is startling that Vajpayee and Advani did more than anybody in Indian history.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents 10 dynasts of the BJP who have managed to get elected this time round.
She could not believe how much India had changed since the last time she experienced it first hand.
It is a waste of time to speak up in today's India, believes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The BJP will be wiped out from all over India.'
'Gaumutra kills all bacteria,' says the Congress corporator from Mumbai, who wants cow urine to clean the city's hospitals.
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
'I have learnt from Guru Nanakji that we all must live in harmony and brotherhood and have concern for others.'
If you thought Vajubhai Vala's invitation to BSY was a one-off, think again :))
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