'The nuns were subjected to abusive language and all types of mental torture.'
'Why should children, who are already burdened with so many subjects, be over-burdened with three languages?'
'We don't know which bus is coming next. I know for sure whatever bus comes next, it will miss that too.'
'...hesitate to support the risk-taking it requires.'
'If you don't fulfil whatever they ask, you are in trouble.'
'The vast majority of BJP supporters in Tamil Nadu can't speak any language other than Tamil.' 'When rural Tamil Nadu can't speak any other language than Tamil, how are they going to convince them that they have to learn Hindi?'
'If delimitation is not handled well by the Centre, the southern states are certainly going to challenge it.'
'They are going to create so many nations within one nation.' 'If you do this exercise without a clear vision, it will have far reaching repercussions. It will end up in disaster and that will be dangerous.'
'Many of these issues will be resolved within 6 months because the US economy has started unravelling.'
'Can we give young India the tools to solve the problems the country or society faces and uplift the community?'
'They just showed riots created by some political party. They never mentioned the name of the place or the political party.' 'I don't know why these people are agitated.'
The Web portal of the Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, published an article (withdrawn later) that the Christian community holds many acres of land, far more than Waqf property.'
'What does Indira Gandhi want from me? At this age, what will I do to her?'
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'Even one accident can cause problems for the entire coastal system.'
'No retaliatory tariffs now. You can retaliate after a few months.' 'Today, there is no need to retaliate because it is a question of long term benefits.'
'...how do they consume and contribute to the GDP?'
'Maybe this has created some minor issues which can happen in any party.'
'Nobody asked us to work on this. It was on our own that we decided to embark on this journey.'
'For the first time in this country, perhaps the first time anywhere, we are going to use backwardness index.' 'It is a fundamental shift in the discourse in the country's social justice.'
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'I remember our priests saying that he liked sea food. So, they cooked sea food for him without masala and spice.' 'It seems he enjoyed Kerala food very much.'
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'A man who brought about the greatest set of economic reforms in the country, who changed the course of Indian history, cannot be considered weak.' 'A man who fought for nuclear reforms even though his majority in Parliament was threatened, he cannot be considered weak.'
'In today's political spectrum, it is the Bharatiya Janata Party that always says, nation first.'
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'So, they have taken away the word Waqf from the Bill.' 'It will now be known as the UMEED Act.'
'Because the same stupid questions are repeated year after year when an exam should provoke the students to think and not ask repetitive questions.' 'So, what do coaching institutes do? They teach students to memorise these questions and answers without understanding the subject.'
'April 9 announcement of slapping a 125% tariff on Chinese goods has brought the focus back to China, making this new phase feel like a repeat of the original conflict.'
'We give them problems so that they can come up with solutions using the technological skills they have learnt.' 'In fact, changemaking and problem solving are interchangeable, in a way.'
'One day I told him, if you want to be a cricketer with a long career, you cannot be a fast bowler.' 'I felt more than pace, unorthodox left arm spin would suit him better.' 'Please don't give me credit for what he is doing now. I only made a suggestion.'
'The entire town, Hindus, Muslims and Christians, my schoolteachers and the ustads from the madrasa were present to witness my arangettam.'
'They sell such ideas in the name of 'national interest'.' 'What national interest are they talking about?' 'There is no national interest in this. The only interest that is there is their profit.'
'The finance minister has done as much as she can when you look into the fiscal constraints she had.'
'The launch of Nila, our very first satellite was very emotional as well as nerve wracking. We tried to calm ourselves by cracking some poor jokes!'
'Before you work on your business plan, before you build your team, you should have a clear idea about what your product is, who your customer is, how valuable the product is, and whether the market is deep and wide.'
'The time has come to have a relook at the Constitution as every document has a shelf life.'
'The southern states will have no voice.' 'Political parties in future need to focus only on one region, the northern region, to win the general election.'
'They refuse to be transparent. They refuse to be accountable.'
