'I am only asking about his travel bills and expenditure.'
The transformation of the Modi-Shah baiting Hardik Patel into saffron poster boy.
'It is very sad. Everyone is feeling bad. Because of some lawyers our profession has been defamed.' 'We are the protectors of the law and we cannot start violating it.'
'303 seats ki sarkar has problems with a cartoonist.'
On his first visit to Srinagar post the abrogation of Article 370, Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that incidents of terrorism have declined and stone-throwing incidents too have ended in Jammu-Kashmir.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf unravels the chronology of controversy in the Aryan Khan drug bust case.
'The Rajputs feel they are being left behind.'
'I have seen so many cows roaming the streets of Mumbai. When people from foreign countries see cows roaming on our streets, it is not good.'
All you need to know about the case and the man behind the drama that has ensued.
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
'Gogoi will be remembered as someone who recovered Assam as a state, as a people and society from the fear of insurgency that had struck the state from the 1980s till 2000.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
'Today, the situation in the country is bad.' 'The distance between Hindus and Muslims is increasing.' 'If an out-of-court settlement is reached, then a cordial atmosphere will prevail in the country.'
>The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal
'The blasts destroyed my family. Two of my sons are in jail and one is absconding.'
Yes, Alauddin Khilji did launch a military encounter for a woman. He had her captured and made her one of his queens. But it was not Rani Padmavati.
'Dr Kafeel is being framed by the Yogi government because he talks about the BRD hospital all the time.'
'This bill is to relieve the government of accountability and to cover up its corruption.'
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
'There was special bonding between all the nurses and Aruna. It has been a bond lasting 40 years among us. We all have fond memories of her, she will be missed, for sure,' the nurses of KEM Hospital, who looked after Aruna Shanbaug selflessly for more than four decades, tell Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
'He ruined my life but he did not help me with a single paisa. I wonder what kind of charity he does when he does not pay the very people who are the victims of his bad deeds. All he did was to pay the compensation the court ordered him to pay me,' Abdullah Rauf Sheikh tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
'They are ABVP-phobic people. Tomorrow, they will say the US attack on Iran is because of the ABVP.'
'That she drove 20 km in 9 minutes is rubbish.'
'Cultural nationalism or the victim card that you play is okay when people are well fed.' 'But if you are not well fed, then it puts a question mark (on your leadership).'
'I remember the confusion over the slogan, 'Karenge Ya Marenge! (Do Or Die!)'.' 'I think this confusion arose because Gandhiji was arrested.' 'People used to wonder: What are we supposed to do?' 'How are we supposed to die?' 'How are we to fight the British?'
'The BJP had a big threat from the Congress in J&K, therefore they were threatened by us.'
'They also think that if all opposition parties rally behind him, then 2024 will be Rahul versus Modi and that will be advantage BJP'
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
'It is not that I don't want to say "Jai Shri Ram".' I only said I will not say this slogan under any pressure.'
'When the Congress tied up with Chandrababu Naidu, they helped trigger Telangana pride.'
'If you have only one hit out of 100 movies in a year, it is death for Bollywood.'
'No other terror organisation has valued popular consensus as the Islamic State does -- instead of repressing people, IS wants to gain their support. This is a major innovation in terrorism,' says terrorism expert and author Dr Loretta Napoleoni in an interview to Archana Masih and Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
''I had no idea that my life would turn into a horror show.' 'I was stuck as the Russians kept bombing Kyiv non-stop.'
"Such are his core supporters that they will vote for him even if cooking oil sells for Rs 5,000 per litre under his leadership.' 'They don't think about inflation but Modi when they go out to vote.'
'Nowhere is it written in the Constitution that Ravan's effigy must be burnt.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents 10 dynasts of the BJP who have managed to get elected this time round.
'Earlier, a lot of fear was in the minds of people that the BJP is anti-Christian and anti-minority, but over the years people have learnt to accept that the BJP is just another national party.'
'Sachin Pilot had every legitimate right to demand to become CM.'
'Why do the English-speaking class feel they are the only ones who are efficient in work?' 'My own mother was from a village and she was more efficient than me. She used to handle crises better than me.' 'We will have to come out of our elite perception of governance.'
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