'He was able to push the AIADMK to the background.'
'They are totally disconnected with farm activities which their families have been involved in for years.'
'Professor Kitagawa is an exceptional researcher, a good teacher and above all a great person.'
'When there are glaring errors in the report, how can you trust anything in it?'
'How many jobs will be created when you complete your course?' 'How many people will compete with you?' 'What is the minimum and maximum salary you can expect?' 'Which are the companies that will offer you a job?' 'What skills do you have to develop?' 'How long will it sustain?'
'It was from him I learnt that if you gave the student the freedom to find his own path, he would be more courageous to experiment.'
'You know the situation in Yemen now. There is no government there.' 'The rebels are in control. So, there is no diplomatic channel through which we can negotiate.'
'All governments are scared of a negative image.' 'Somehow, this government has a tendency to create a narrative that things are improving.' 'When the real data gives a different picture, they are upset.'
'Not only jobs are not being generated, but people are also losing jobs.'
'At Keeladi, we have not come across any evidence for organised religion.'
'We had prepared tapioca and crabs for him, and he enjoyed the Kerala cuisine thoroughly.'
'According to JP, Indira Gandhi was not much of a danger to democracy. He said, it was Sanjay Gandhi and his gang.'
'Despite being a software powerhouse, we're not producing proportionate original IP, frameworks, or global tech products originating in India.'
'Today, the State looks at everyone with suspicion.'
'Archaeological sites like Keeladi, having remained buried for 2,500 years, have come out and speak now.'
'What is going on is the under counting of the migration population in urban areas.' 'It has been going on in the last few censuses.'
'It is for the first time in Independent India that collection of information on caste is being done.'
'It concerns the sea and the security of the nation. What has happened is a big tragedy.'
'It will split people and create caste clashes. Unity of people will be affected for the time being.'
'The protection of secrecy and anonymity gets lost with this linking.'
During her long career, writer-journalist Shobha Warrier has come across people of varied hues, many of whom left a lasting impression on her. Warrier narrates the fascinating stories of some of them in her recently-released book The Little Flower Girl and the others, Diary of a Journalist.
'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.'
'The defence forces have come up with certain problems they face in the drone space.' 'Recently we had a meeting at which they presented the problems to many of our start-ups and faculty.' 'Some of the start-ups have started working on the problems.'
The brilliant Adoor Gopalakrishnan looks back at his journey that started 40 years ago, in 1972.
'The Railways is today running train services with 30% less number of loco pilots.'
'The CBI did a wonderful job of tracking down the killers, but at the end of the day, all the hard work went for a toss.' 'If we had caught them alive, the operation would have been successful completely.'
'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?'
Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com travels to Pullampara to discover how it became India's first digital literate village.
'If delimitation is not handled well by the Centre, the southern states are certainly going to challenge it.'
'The nuns were subjected to abusive language and all types of mental torture.'
'Can we give young India the tools to solve the problems the country or society faces and uplift the community?'
Shobha Warrier pays homage to M T Vasudevan Nair, the legendary writer and filmmaker who passed into the ages on Wednesday, December 25, 2024.
'Many of these issues will be resolved within 6 months because the US economy has started unravelling.'
'...hesitate to support the risk-taking it requires.'
'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.'
'Otherwise, the minorities would not have acknowledged his leadership quality. I am happy the BJP is working towards achieving a secular image,' Vellappally Natesan, the OBC leader in Kerala who has created a controversy by supporting Narendra Modi, tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier.
'...how do they consume and contribute to the GDP?'
'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.'
'If you don't fulfil whatever they ask, you are in trouble.'
