'When the Babri Masjid was demolished, we didn't take permission from anyone.'
'If a politician asks the policeman to do something which is not correct, then why blame the politician?' 'If you do it, then you are equally liable.'
Rohith Vemula's suicide exposes all of us as a nation, argues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Nehru wanted to strengthen industries by exploiting agriculture and that policy was continued by successive governments.'
Why Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manjinder S Sirsa is furious with the director and actor of Sacred Games 2.
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
'Politicians want pliable policemen who would carry out their orders, right or wrong, lawful or illegal.'
'Dr Kafeel is being framed by the Yogi government because he talks about the BRD hospital all the time.'
'One reason given for the failure of the Congress in Assam was due to the alliance with the AIUDF.'
'He felt that he had no place in the BJP and he was wrong.'
'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)'.'
'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'
'Sachin Pilot had every legitimate right to demand to become CM.'
'If Modi-Shah had not changed the leadership, one section would have parted ways with the BJP for sure.'
'These charges of the prosecution will fall to the ground and I am 100 per cent sure of that.'
'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.'
'PM Modi is not taking Kashmir's stance as far as the Naga issue is concerned.'
'Narendra Modi knows that the Congress without the Gandhis is a more formidable and more dangerous adversary.'
'We are seeing an era where only what Modi wishes is going to happen.' 'A clear message has now been sent to others that if this fate could befall on Nitin Gadkari, then just think what could happen to lesser mortals.'
'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?'
'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.
'They are calling me an accused without even an inquiry.' 'The video was fabricated and doctored. Now the truth is coming out.'
'They are ABVP-phobic people. Tomorrow, they will say the US attack on Iran is because of the ABVP.'
'If people want to blackmail others to get information or harm things, so why will someone give them information?'
An unemployed migrant becomes a much sought after Baba right before Syed Firdaus Ashraf's eyes.
'The Chinese have not crossed the LAC in Galwan.' 'They are on their side of the LAC and we are on our side.'
'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.'
'To simply let the rupee depreciate to any level according to market forces will not be in the country's interests.'
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.
'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.'
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
'We were expecting at least they would be held guilty, but instead they have gone scot-free'
'Crony capitalism will gain due to these Acts.'
'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.' 'They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.'
She could not believe how much India had changed since the last time she experienced it first hand.
'No action will be taken against Ajit Pawar. I am sure.'
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.
'Gaumutra kills all bacteria,' says the Congress corporator from Mumbai, who wants cow urine to clean the city's hospitals.
'I should not have lifted my hand, but whoever eats the meat of a cow, whom we Hindus consider our mother, these things will happen.'
'The BJP will be wiped out from all over India.'
