There are many life lessons to be learnt from the way Sharad Pawar handled the Maharashtra political crisis.
'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.'
'In low-profile cases, if there's a small quantity (of drugs involved), you get bail on the first day.' 'In high-profile cases, it depends on the judge.'
'Writers are always nervous.' 'If you go to a party, you will notice that the writers are always in a corner of the party, looking anxious, sweating and tense about something or the other.' 'I am that kind of person.'
'Modi is now the biggest messiah of OBCs and Dalits as V P Singh once was.'
'We cannot accept that this incident was not in the knowledge of the home ministry.' 'If they had no knowledge about this incident, then it is a big intelligence failure as the Union home ministry has no idea what is going on in Manipur and what the state police is doing.'
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.
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
Nothing 'accidental' about this movie, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
No one can make the audience laugh like Govinda, raves Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'My father's life sends a message that there are positive things happening between India and China, no matter what happens at the border.'
'We do not want Kashmiri Pandits to migrate from Kashmir.'
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
'Mamata Didi is the only politician who can take on the might of Modi.'
'Assam is not a dumping ground for Bangladeshi Hindu refugees,' says Assamese actor Ravi Sharma who joined the BJP in August and quit the party on December 10 in protest against the Citizenship Act.
'Therefore, these people want Imran Khan out of the elections whenever it is held.' 'For this, he will have to be disqualified from contesting on the basis of cases against him, declaring that he is not sadiq (honest) and ameen (righteous).'
'Siddaramaiah was openly taking on the BJP's communal agenda, which very few non-BJP politicians do.'
'All this while he has been maintaining that he is innocent and, if that is the case, why will he run away?'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com recounts the history of the Indian flag and how it has evolved over the years.
'Even if not me, there are other deserving candidates from Maharashtra in the Congress who should have been given the Rajya Sabha ticket.'
Over 1,200 Indian students stranded at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine make a desperate call for help.
Coolie No 1 is a cheap comedy for silly people, asserts Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'They will be in prison all their life and they will understand what suffering means to Reuben's and Keenan's families.'
'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.'
'Farmers must get Maximum Support Price instead of Minimum Support Price.'
'Since I was held at gunpoint I had no option but to give them the car keys.' 'They took the car and drove away.'
'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.'
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
'I was not there at the spot and I don't know who was driving the car.' 'It is a matter that needs to be investigated by the police and it is their job,' says the father of the journalist who was killed in Lakhimpur Kheri.
'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.' 'The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.'
'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.'
Sanju is a repeat of Munnabhai, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Ajit Pawar's speech leaves no room for reconciliation.'
After watching Uri: The Surgical Strike, Syed Firdaus Ashraf gets the feeling that Modi has added another tool to help him win the 2019 Lok Sabha election: Hindi cinema...
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf applauds The Kapil Sharma Show's reincarnation.
Hamid Nihal Ansari, a software engineer from Mumbai, returned to India in December 2018 after spending six years in a Pakistani jail for illegally entering the neighbouring country from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was arrested in 2012 and lodged at Peshawar jail after Pakistan had slapped espionage charges against him. The decision to release him was on account of relentless pressure from New Delhi and Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister and was personally monitoring the case. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, Ansari recalls the time he spent with her and says that if it wasn't for her efforts, he would still be rotting away in a Pakistani cell.
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