'Ladakh has become a hollow UT.' 'Bureaucrats from Delhi rule Ladakh and there is no attention paid to the grievances of the people.'
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains the charges against the Bollywood star.
'Article 370 is now dug 70 feet deep in the ground. It cannot come out.'
'The situation is so bad that it is not possible for me to explain in words how bad the conditions are for the common man of Manipur.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf is unimpressed by the Uri trailer.
This Web series is more about wine, opium, sex, more sex, gay love and incest, rues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'If the country felt very strongly about the BJP, then why did the country not put money where the mouth is?'
Want to live in Maharashtra, follow these eight rules or get jailed. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on the proposed Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act.
'The government does not want to be transparent or accountable. Therefore, they do not want to appoint information commissioners.'
'If my brother was a criminal they could have filed a case against him and put him on trial. Why kill him?' This is not justice.'
'Aspiring doctors have put in years of their lives to study in preparation for NEET exams as they start studies from Class 9 to get good marks.' 'And today, after the NEET paper leak, these students even after getting good marks are unable to get admission in any good medical college (because of inflated merit marks due to the paper leak).' 'They are thinking, was it worthwhile to study so hard for the examinations to become a doctor?'
'I came for my national service. I am the son of people like Gandhiji, Nehru, Patel, Dr Ambedkar and Maulana Azad.'
'Why should I as a common man not know where my parents are in Kashmir, how they are doing. It is my right,' student Mohammed Aleem Syed, who moved the Supreme Court to be allowed to visit Kashmir, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The Election Commission cannot be regulated by the government.'
Cafe Irani Chaii is Mansoor Showghi Yezdi's attempt at preserving Irani culture in an age of globalisation, where old cultures are swiftly fading away.
'Party workers sit outside polling booths and they know everything that is happening.' 'Besides, as a voter when you push the EVM button to vote there is a paper slip that comes out showing you who you voted for.'
Satyamev Jayate 2 has a dated, circa 1990s script which won't find acceptance with today's generations, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
... Why care for the truth when the legend so interesting, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Apparently, the EC deals with such communications as mine in a summary manner, and it has no intention to conduct its affairs, as a quasi-judicial authority ought to.'
'The reason I am not anxious about the opponent facing me in the front (Ajit Pawar) is because of who is standing behind me like a rock (Sharad Pawar).'
'This was a decision taken and executed by Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman. Both were convinced that the assassination would not be linked to them.'
'He also understands and foresees potential challenges.'
'There is no peace in the Kashmir Valley.'
'Every district office of the party celebrated his exit by distributing sweets and bursting crackers.'
'Who are Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to issue certificates?'
'People have got into the habit of sitting at home (and watching films).' 'They don't want to watch movies in theatres because they do not want to waste as much as Rs 1,000 on tickets.' 'They feel there is no point in watching a film on the big screen because it will anyway come on OTT in a month's time.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com finds out why Sacred Games has run into trouble.
'They will be in prison all their life and they will understand what suffering means to Reuben's and Keenan's families.'
'He was the most thoughtful corporate person I encountered.'
'We don't trust the prime minister's words on repealing the laws because he had promised us that he will implement the Swaminathan Commission report, but he never did.'
'I want to ask the Congress only one question: What is more important than election management in politics?'
'The BJP will not win a single seat in Punjab.'
'They made so many toppers in NEET that automatically the paper leak issue got exposed.' 'The first mistake they did was announcing 67 toppers in NEET. No way this figure was possible.' 'The maximum numbers of toppers that you can have are two or three at best every year.'
'The whole Kashmiri population is seemed to be a suspect community. This status is not good.'
The answers will come -- hopefully! -- when the film releases on August 15, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'This bitterness will be more in Jammu area than in Kashmir.'
'Not disclosing information to the public indicates that there is something wrong with Project Cheetah.'
26 candidates in Amethi fray take away 60,545 votes; the difference between the victorious Smriti Irani and Rahul Gandhi is 55,120 votes.
'Unlike in the Kedarnath floods of 2013, which happened due to heavy rains, no such thing happened in Chamoli.' 'The damage was done only because of the hot sun.'
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