'There was a revolt. They were fighting for their rights.' 'They lost their rights after colonial forest policies came into place.' 'These freedom fighters were trying to reassert those rights.'
'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.'
'Change was very much needed for the Congress to win the 2022 assembly elections.'
'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.'
'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.
Why 'anti-Romeo'? Why not 'anti-loafer' squad? Or 'anti-Majnu' squad?' wonders Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
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.
'I am only asking about his travel bills and expenditure.'
'Mamata's numbers will reduce this time compared to 2016.'
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.
'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.'
'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.'
'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?'
'When the Congress tied up with Chandrababu Naidu, they helped trigger Telangana pride.'
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
'The Rajputs feel they are being left behind.'
'The mindset of people needs to change.' 'We still believe in accepting cash when we can do business with digital money as well.'
Newly-elected CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury speaks to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents the names of 10 global terrorists who, according to United Nations Security Council, are operating against India from Pakistan.
'If you want proof, visit any bank in Mumbai and you will find the poor standing in bank queues.' 'They are queuing up from midnight outside the banks.'
'This is a fascinating side to Sonia Gandhi, the way she disarms her opponents.'
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Viral Acharya is the eighth economist to quit since the Modi government took office.
Hours after the government banned Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, Indians are facing an acute shortage of change.
'The government must have armed security personnel for doctors and only then they can go and serve people.'
'There was already a cash crunch and this (lockdown) has created more trouble.'
From the kind of food to the art which will be displayed at the museum, historian Pushpesh Pant shares his vision.
'Muslims must show patience and endurance.' 'The perception that has been created against them needs to be changed by them.'
'This government will end after five years, but farmers will not end after five years.' 'This is the source of our confidence.'
'Nowhere is it written in the Constitution that Ravan's effigy must be burnt.'
Some police encounters that stunned India.
'Military operations demand the highest degree of secrecy.' 'Those who are demanding transparency in military operations must understand what military operations are all about.'
'During the lockdown if you terminate your employee, then you will face action under the NDMA.' 'This will be the first time something like this will happen in the history of India.'
'You want poor people who take 5 kg rice to produce an Aadhaar card.' 'The poor man may or may not have Aadhaar.' 'Poor people are losing their food and dying.'
'When a criminal assumes a new identity he think everybody knows them by that name only.' 'Criminals forget that the police are always hunting for them to put them in jail.'
'He was such a diverse poet that he wrote the song M bole toh Master of Munnabhai MBBS and also Yeh Rishta kya kehlata hai of Meenaxi.'
'As a doctor, I always knew I would get it, but I was always sure I would get cured too.'
'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
Yes, Alauddin Khilji did launch a military encounter for a woman. He had her captured and made her one of his queens. But it was not Rani Padmavati.
'This bill is to relieve the government of accountability and to cover up its corruption.'
'The most serious issue is that of shooting a lawyer in the chest. That news has been buried.'
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