'If he gets bail, he will bounce back.'
'This is the biggest crisis Kejriwal is facing in his life.' 'If he is able to come out of this, then he will have a great future.'
'All is well in Visakhapatnam for now.'
'Congress leaders are ready to lose the election and not form the government, but are never ready to share seats with others.'
'...or go to jail.' 'The government is getting them silenced.'
Coolie No 1 is a cheap comedy for silly people, asserts Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf tries to escape the Mumbai heat in the hills of Uttarakhand and discovers the aftermath of climate change and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
'Farmers must get Maximum Support Price instead of Minimum Support Price.'
'Hindutva will not win any elections. Hindutva as a political plank never works.'
'I love to meet people.' 'I love that personal connect when they express their genuine, heartfelt feelings.'
'In the case of a road accident, prevention is the only answer.' 'There's no cure to death or disability when the accident happens, and when it's due to reckless or negligent driving, it's worse because it's avoidable.'
'The Maoists have weakened considerably in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after Milind Teltumbde's death.'
'I was never why I was denied a ticket to contest the assembly elections.'
'All of these guys who are opposing the Supreme Court judgment are from dominant scheduled caste communities and none of them come from the scavenging community.' 'Not a single scavenging leader will oppose this Supreme Court judgment.'
Where did the rasgulla originate from? Is the dish originally from Odisha or West Bengal?
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
'The BJP has 106 MLAs and Eknath Shinde claims the support of 40 MLAs. So why are they both not forming the government right now in Mumbai? Why the delay?' Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf reports.
'Heavy rains are not the primary reason for landslides in Wayanad.' 'There are all sorts of (human) intervention going on in that area.'
'While other parties generally need support directly from their central leadership to get influencers or celebrities to endorse their party, the work of identifying and contacting such influencers has been decentralised to state and district level IT cells to get more engagement in the BJP.'
'Subodh Singh had a key role as the investigating officer in the Akhlaq murder case.' 'He was the first key witness from the government side in the case.'
'Modi is now the biggest messiah of OBCs and Dalits as V P Singh once was.'
'They could have told the media that there is nothing in it and let me read it out.'
'The State does not accept our rights, what more can I say about this judgment?'
'If a poor voter sees Modi's picture on ration bags, it is natural he will vote for Modi and the BJP.'
'I just invited PM Modi for Kalki Dham for shilanyas, so what crime did I commit as a Congressman?'
'They hate him so much that if PM Modi says the Sun rises in the east the Congress will say the Sun rises in the west.'
'Who has given how much money to which party, the people of India must know this fact.'
'Replacement of the CM with a more acceptable face may be a good start towards resolving Manipur's problem.'
'No Indian politician has been killed in India for upholding the Constitution except for Kashmiri mainstream politicians.' 'Yet they call us terrorist or militant.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'Modi warned China, therefore they have come to the talks.' 'Nothing will come out of these talks.'
'As far as I know, Sachin Pilotji is not going to the BJP.'
'It is a frightening situation as the most threatening aspect is the development and growth of society.' 'Once our society comes into perpetual violent mode, then investments will drop.'
'An entire operation was running systematically prior to the revoking of Article 370.'
'As long as economic growth remains steady, creating jobs and generating stable incomes, the rise in home loans should not create problems.' 'If the growth trajectory changes course over the medium term and interest rates rise along with inflation, the expanding trend in home loans may not sustain.'
'These statements which you are telling me were never uttered from mosques on that day.' 'And if this had happened, I would have got the report as the chief secretary of J&K.'
Chandrashekhar Sawant halted the train by applying the emergency brake when he saw the debris falling as the train was approaching the collapsing bridge.
'People will feel cheated as they always felt a part of India. We want to be with India and we want people of India to accept us.' Laway tells Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong. India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity,' declares filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com reports from Lucknow.
