'It is not the duty of government to protect minority religions or promote it.'
'The act of demolition, for whatever reason, was far too hasty without even giving an opportunity of an appeal.'
Rohith Vemula's suicide exposes all of us as a nation, argues Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The actual amount due to Jet Airways employees is Rs 1,200 crore, and the management is giving only Rs 52 crore.'
'After Father Stan Swamy's death one thing has become very clear, that if you fight for justice in India you will be called a Maoist by the State.'
This was the second time D K Shivakumar foiled Amit A Shah's plans.
'UCC should be across India and legally applicable to every Indian citizen.'
'Rahul Gandhi never gets firsthand information. He does not know what is good or bad going on in the party.'
'They pushed me out of the truck (carrying Rajesh Khanna's body) as well. What could be more mean than this? They didn't want me in the last journey. What can be more violent than this?' Anita Advani explains her case against Dimple Kapadia and her family.
'I am very sure that Rajnikanth, a patriot and a spiritual person, will not do this movie which is about a tyrant, killer and murderer,' BJP leader H Raja tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
'Before entering Tihar jail, she told us not to worry and that we will together come out of this crisis soon.'
'If we want a stable society, then all groups must feel that they have a seat at the table of power.'
'The suppression is mounting and people may react.'
'When she left on June 8 after some kind of fight or break-up she did not think Sushant would die.' 'She did not think his family after his death would level such horrible accusations against her.' 'She did not think three agencies would be tasked to prove her to a bad woman.'
'I have no problem with people from the right wing who speak with a certain integrity of position.'
'Had they agreed to our demands that we raised two years ago, we would have never started our agitation again.'
'Punjab elections are there and so are UP elections. They must have done some calculations (before announcing the repeal).'
'She said she could have taken so much energy from her father had she got a chance to meet him before his death.'
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf does a comparative analysis of suicide numbers released by the NCRB. Data: Hemantkumar Shivsaran/Rediff.com.
'If they don't make Ajit Pawar chief minister, what can he do?'
'Why did they attack us? What was our fault?' 'They killed a woman. They burnt down vehicles.' 'They pelted stones at us over a 45 km stretch. There was no police bandobast.'
'If timely action was taken by the CBI, the other three murders could have been prevented.'
'The cousins do not have a good rapport with each other in politics, though they may be having a good rapport with each other in family life.'
The Janata Dal-United, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party, opposed the government's move on Article 370 through a fresh Presidential Order ending special status to Jammu and Kashmir. On Monday, opposing the Narendra Modi-led government's decision, they walked out of the Rajya Sabha where the bill to split the state into two Union Territories was passed. Similarly, on Tuesday, the JD-U walked out of Lok Sabha while the bill was being discussed. In Patna, JD-U national spokesperson K C Tyagi said: "We completely differ with the Central government's move on Jammu and Kashmir. There was a need for wider consultations on it, but no consultation was done even within the NDA. We own the legacy of socialist leaders Ram Manohar Lohia and Jai Prakash Narayan, who had opposed attempts to tamper with Article 370 during Congress (government in the past)." Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on the same, the JD-U leader said that 'walking out of Parliament won't affect their ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party'.
'You haven't heard a peep out of Kashmir so what is going to erupt? What repercussion will be (there) in long term, you will have to (wait) and see'
'All this while he has been maintaining that he is innocent and, if that is the case, why will he run away?'
'If you want to change everything all of a sudden to polyester, then the production of khadi flags will come under trouble.'
'The India which was all about glamour and razzmatazz through which he could earn the trust of people of the other India, which was Bharat.'
'They just want to show that the Congress is in disarray.'
'I would like to see Kharge include Shashi in the Congress Working Committee.' 'The other alternative is that the Congress will marginalise him.'
'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
'If the Congress gets to form the government in 2024, then Sonia Gandhi by virtue of being CPP chairperson will have the authority to decide who will be the prime minister and not Kharge.'
'This committee underscores the Indian State's longstanding conventional approach to leverage top-down conflict management in North East India in general and Manipur in particular.' 'Trying to 'manage' violent conflicts top-down has not worked in the past, and apparently does not seem to work this time either.'
'For no other leader of India do so many people turn up for an event every year without invitation.'
'Deeply hurt by Modi's conspicuous silence for over a month-and-a-half since the outbreak of violence, people in Manipur came on the roads and crushed their radio sets to express their frustration and anger.' 'The fact that Modi's Mann Ki Baat did not have a single reference to the Manipur violence further accentuated this hurt and anger.'
'One man went berserk or rogue that does not mean the Mumbai police should be ashamed.'
'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.'
'The place I used to sleep in the jail had a big window high up on the opposite side, where at sunrise and sunset time a bird would drop in every day.' 'It could be an eagle or a peacock. And sometimes a monkey.' 'Those moments calmed you, brought hope...'
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
'It is a well-thought-out decision. I feel it is difficult for him now to step back.'
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