'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?'
It was Dev Anand's dream to put Indian cinema on the world map and he thought Guide was the perfect film for it.
'On the Kashmir and Pakistan question, it is startling that Vajpayee and Advani did more than anybody in Indian history.'
'Change was very much needed for the Congress to win the 2022 assembly elections.'
'I have great friends in film industry but professionalism and friendship are two different cups of tea. When it comes to producing a movie, every producer thinks of saleable actors,' says Dino Morea.
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
'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.
'Narendra Modi knows that the Congress without the Gandhis is a more formidable and more dangerous adversary.'
An unemployed migrant becomes a much sought after Baba right before Syed Firdaus Ashraf's eyes.
'This issue is related to national security because they were compromising the entire capital markets's core infrastructure by leaking confidential information.' 'What would have happened if the servers had come down?' 'Or some confidential information leaked to terrorists who could have knocked out our capital market?'
'Look at the aggressive way in which a campaign against Friday namaz is going on in North Indian cities.' 'Even the Union home minister is part of this vicious campaign.'
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents 10 dynasts of the BJP who have managed to get elected this time round.
'They are calling me an accused without even an inquiry.' 'The video was fabricated and doctored. Now the truth is coming out.'
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 is a waste of time to speak up in today's India, believes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Mamata's numbers will reduce this time compared to 2016.'
'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
'The Scindias betrayed Jhansi ki Rani and now the Congress party.' 'So this is nothing new as he is repeating the history of his family.'
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
'The BJP will be wiped out from all over India.'
She could not believe how much India had changed since the last time she experienced it first hand.
'I have learnt from Guru Nanakji that we all must live in harmony and brotherhood and have concern for others.'
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'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
'Gaumutra kills all bacteria,' says the Congress corporator from Mumbai, who wants cow urine to clean the city's hospitals.
'In 2021, assembly elections are going to be held in Assam. The BJP, sitting in Delhi, is thinking everything is hunky-dory in Assam. But that is not the case.' 'People of Assam are no longer with the BJP.'
'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.'
Why 'anti-Romeo'? Why not 'anti-loafer' squad? Or 'anti-Majnu' squad?' wonders Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Congress and BSP are in the fray, but not in the contest.'
'This government will end after five years, but farmers will not end after five years.' 'This is the source of our confidence.'
'I am only asking about his travel bills and expenditure.'
'Every Congress leader in UP and the rest of India is calling me and thanking me that finally someone spoke about this JNU gang ruling the Congress party in UP.'
'This is a fascinating side to Sonia Gandhi, the way she disarms her opponents.'
Mumbai top cop Rakesh Maria's trusted man Dinesh Kadam also helped crack the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts' case, sent Abu Salem to jail and helped bust the Indian Mujahideen terror network in Mumbai.
From the kind of food to the art which will be displayed at the museum, historian Pushpesh Pant shares his vision.
With Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stoking a controversy by saying that the Hindu population was falling while minorities are flourishing, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf studied the 2001 and 2011 census data to track the demographic changes in the northeast.
'When the Congress tied up with Chandrababu Naidu, they helped trigger Telangana pride.'
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