'There are 80 million tonnes of foodgrain in our godowns and yet, 200 million people go to bed hungry.' 'So I decided to fight hunger.'
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
'A recent compromise by the state government is accepting NEET exams for medical entrance.'
Aditi Mammen Gupta, who hails from the family that started Malayala Manorama, MRF Tyres & Funskool, tells us about her start-up.
A Ganesh Nadar finds out how private water distributors help Chennai's water-starved citizens.
An angry Satyanarayana Shimoga questions why he has been denied the Dronacharya award.
What is the man who hopes to replace Jayalalithaa like as a campaigner?
'With the deaths of Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi, the BJP and Congress thought that they had a chance.' 'They have conceded that power is with the Dravidian parties.'
'How can you have massages on trains in the presence of other lady passengers?'
'The government is not doing anything for the people. They don't know that people foremost need jobs. Where there are no jobs available, you see the youth turning to crime,' says Chennai autorickshaw driver, singer and composer Parthasarathy.
'How can you say such things? Just because he takes care of cows...'
Congress spokesperson Rajeev Gowda tells A Ganesh Nadar why his party may join the Nitish Kumar-led Janata parivar alliance.
'I am attending Hindi language classes as I think it will help if I get a job in North India.'
A Ganesh Nadar wonders what Kamal Hassan hopes to achieve with this film.
How did an Independent candidate win a seat in the face of the NaMo wave in UP?
'My life has been full of suffering for the last five years,' says Professor T J Joseph whose hand was hacked by Islamists in a brutal attack.
Detectives in Sydney have spoken to more than 2,000 people, taken almost 250 statements. They have considered the possibility that someone in India was involved in, or helped organise, Prabha Arun Kumar's murder.
Neetu Chopra, who travelled solo across India on a scooter covering 7,600 km in 42 days, tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar why girls should not be scared to dream.
'Don't try to impose anything on us.'
Varun Gandhi explains why he has moved a private member's bill in Parliament enabling voters to recall their representatives.
Three young Indians plan to cycle from Kochi in Kerala to Tokyo in time to attend the Olympics there next year.
'He just said that those who cannot control the violence should go. He did not name the BJP.'
'The BJP wants an AIADMK government so that they can implement their policies.' 'All the policies implemented in UP are being implemented in Tamil Nadu.'
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com attends Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's presser in Chennai to tom-tom the government's achievements in its first 100 days in office.
'All this for only one reason -- that I oppose the government's nuclear power policy.' 'They will not break my resolve.' 'I will stand by my principle, which is to point out that nuclear energy is not safe.'
'OPS did not back off.' 'He wanted transparency and he got it.'
'My son did not write the post at all. He just shared it. Somebody else had written it.'
'It's a natural alliance and this alliance has been has been formed without compromising the core ideology of the AIADMK.'
Cops are struggling to determine the motive, as they rule out sexual assault or a hate crime.
'There were 27 cases against me. I have obtained bail in all the cases. The judiciary has released me,' the freed Kashmiri separatist tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
'When Rajiv Gandhi was PM, Roman Catholic missionaries were allowed to enter Arunachal Pradesh and they made full use of this. They had the blessings of Sonia Gandhi'
It had all the makings of a movie thriller. Students who paid a few lakh rupees were supplied with vanishing ink. Answer papers were intercepted on the way and corrected. No one would have been wiser had the perpetrators of the exam scam not gotten greedy.
'Every person is a Jatayu, each one of you can be Jatayu, both men and women,' says temple priest behind the group set up to prevent atrocities on women and young girls.
Why is the BJP upset about the dialogues in a Tamil movie, wonders A Ganesh Nadar.
'Our party cadre does not want her in the party.'
A Ganesh Nadar watches the fourth day of protests dawn on Chennai's Marina beach.
When a Hindi film does well in Chennai, it's time to sit up and take notice, says A Ganesh Nadar.
'When you enter our secretariat, you are insulting us.' 'It is the seat of government of the state of Tamil Nadu,'
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com pays tribute to his school mate, Talat Jani, the man behind quite a few episodes of Kyunki... Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
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