'We still need a certain number of large public sector banks for financial inclusion and stability purposes.'
'Politics is not a post for retired people to enjoy.'
'We have been telling the government that we need handholding.' So, we sent a series of recommendations to the government, but nothing happened.' 'And the condition of industry became worse.'
'As a person who has seen the treasure, I am worried about its safety.'
'Vaccination is very important for an economy to start functioning properly.'
'There is good indication that the economy is bouncing back, but the problem is, we should look at the eight quarters preceding March 2020.' 'The growth had fallen below 3.1% before March 2020.' 'So, the governments must realise that even if you transform the best of green shoots into banyan trees, you see only 3.1% growth.'
'...signatures.' 'But such signatures are missing in this virus.'
'Fireworks are dangerous in Kerala where there is very little open space.'
'If people use the mask properly, we can confidently say that this is as protective as the best mask in the market.'<
'The future looks quite bleak unless we ramp up testing and start vaccinating on a war footing.'
'Saying the private industry will come and transform India's space programme is real moonshine!'
'If a small object of less than 100 gm can make a deep crater and also release this kind of energy, it could only be a meteorite.'
'Have you met anyone who said "I will not boycott Chinese products"?'
'When the world was refining itself, India was going backwards culturally with so many rape cases and other atrocities against women, children and the elderly. The growth of evil forces was very bad in the last 10 years,' says Malayalam movie star Suresh Gopi, who met Narendra Modi recently tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier in this exclusive interview.
'In India, A3i is found mostly in southern India, and a few in Delhi. You don't see this strain much in, say, Gujarat or Maharashtra.'
'Unless we get the health and economic situations right at the same time, we will not recover.'
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
'The Modi wave is superimposed by an anti-Congress wave. While there is anger against the Congress, there is also a pro-Modi sentiment. Together, it will lead to a Modi victory.' Psephologist Dr Rajeeva Karandikar explains to Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com the science behind his prediction that the Narendra Modi-led NDA will win Election 2014.
'India should start leveraging rather than banning crypto.'
'It is high time that we act instead of just talking about how and why the climate is changing.'
'If at all there is going to be a second wave, it will not be very strong unlike in the US and Europe.'
'How can I pursue my dream forgoing my identity? I want to fly as a trans man.'
'If the government does its job of vaccinating all the population with the booster dose, and also monitoring the virus, and we do our job of wearing a mask and avoiding crowded places, we will be free of this virus in a few months.' time.'
'And that means all of us have to be very careful.'
For 'a person who has dedicated his life to teaching students, guiding them to restoring monuments and preserving our built heritage, I never dreamt that my home will one day be demolished.'
'Mortality or hospitalisation has not increased in South Africa because of the new variant.' 'There is nothing to show so far that it is more infectious.' 'I am of the opinion that at the moment, there is no reason to panic.'
'When an individual becomes authoritarian, you can overthrow the individual easily. 'When the system becomes authoritarian, whoever challenges the system will be called a criminal or an anti-national.'
'How can anyone ask me to stop what I have been doing since I was 6?'
'Art has no religion. An artist is an artist.'
'There is indeed a link between BCG vaccination and resistance to COVID-19.'
'One cannot take it that the economy has recovered, and the GST payment has increased because of that, or that production is back to January 2020 level.'
'Ultimately, people will revolt at one time or the other.' 'You cannot feed the public with cultural issues forever.'
'...Rs 137 lakh crores of people's money?' 'It is not the government's money, it is people's money.'
'I told him, "Balu, you have to get out of the hospital. We have to do a lot of programmes together".' 'When I kissed him on his forehead, tears started rolling from his eyes.' 'I wiped the tears away and prayed.' 'I didn't know that was the last time I was going to see my friend alive.'
'If you want to really grow, it has to be geometric progression like it happened at the Centre or Haryana or Tripura, where you made a quantum jump.' 'This is possible in Kerala provided we present a better alternative with a great leadership, but the current leadership is busy fixing each other.'
J Sandhya, member, Child Rights Commission, speaks to Shobha Warrier about the recent incident where more than five hundred poor children from Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal were being sent to Kerala orphanages, and why children's rights need to be protected with vigour.
'When people who ignored us, when relatives who have not spoken to us for a long time, congratulated us, it was a proud moment for my mother.'
'I told myself, I will be 23 next year. Why can't I be a billionaire too?'
'My wife was asked to get out of an autorickshaw because she was married to me. My children were targeted and branded a traitor's children. In spite of the Supreme Court and the NHRC having cleared my case, the state government is yet to close it. Local politicians are behind this. Why can't they close the case, give me compensation, accepting gracefully that they have wronged me?' Dr S Nambi Narayanan, the scientist who was accused and then exonerated in the 1994 ISRO spying case, speaks to Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier about his continuing travails and his recent meeting with Narendra Modi.
'If we were willing to go to Yemen, one can only imagine our condition. Only those who are desperate will go there.'
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