'Not everybody gets the opportunity of having a working desk inside a helicopter from where you can control torpedoes and weapons.'
'Whatever the BJP tries to do, they will not be able to make a big mark in Kerala.'
'The leverage created by the Indian military must not be lost.'
'It is my duty to tell them about the brave soldiers who gave their lives for our land.' 'The free air of freedom that we breathe is because of men like them.'
'The sanctions are biting him.' 'He also has a chance to come out into the world and reshape his nation.'
'Nitish Kumar's government will be at stake. The JD-U is working with a very thin majority, which is a borrowed majority. With just two seats Nitish Kumar has no moral right to stay on,' says Professor Prabhat Ghosh.
'There was a lot of resentment against the BJP which has not translated into votes, this is surprising.'
'The party in the present form cannot pose a challenge to the BJP and Modi.'
'To deal with a bully, you have to deal from a position of strength, not a position of weakness.'
'The Chinese can't be trusted hence the need to verify and re-verify.'
'As Indians, we should be claiming and celebrating 'Bhartiyata' rather than seeking commitment to beliefs which are divisive and exclusionary.'
'Why did government not include a provision in the bills which categorically stated that no crop will be sold below the MSP in the open market?'
'There is little appetite in the Democratic foreign policy establishment to pick a fight with India.'
'The BJP would not have brought him into the party if they did not appreciate him.'
'The safety regulations drastically reduce the chances of contracting the virus on a two-hour flight.'
'The police will give weightage to the socially strong.' 'The dominant caste is usually a powerful person, while the scheduled caste is normally powerless.' 'That is why FIRs are not registered.' 'Most of these complaints are by very poor people against very rich powerful people.'
'Interns, fresh MBBS graduates, nursing students, young doctors and nurses have brought pride to their degrees and their oath by courageously donning the PPE and caring for patients.' 'They are the foot soldiers of this war.'
'The Chinese are only about 160-170 km behind.' 'It will not take much time for them to bring their troops back, considering that they have better infrastructure -- and the weather is now favourable.' 'They can move in much faster as the terrain favours them.'
In Mehreen Amin's gym, Kashmiri girls who earlier had no access to female trainers, are 'gymming' their way to fitness.
'After days of waiting in uncertainty and anguish, I was finally going home.'
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami met a hero's end battling Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists in the jungles of Kashmir. His valour earned him the nation's highest gallantry award in peacetime this Republic Day. Archana Masih/Rediff.com travelled to Lal Kuan, Haldwani, to find out who this hero was.
'The uneducated think of their rights as a gift. This is deeply troubling.' 'If they were educated they could claim what is rightfully theirs.'
'Modi will not require the Ayodhya issue because he already has other emotive issues like Pakistan.' 'The BJP does not need the temple for political mobilisation anymore.'
'Vibhuti was a braveheart.' 'He always said I cannot stay behind. He always wanted to lead.' A cousin and friend remember Major Dhaundiyal who made the supreme sacrifice for the motherland on Monday.
'Chirag Paswan's game plan would be to push out Nitish Kumar from this alliance, but that is only possible if the BJP wins about 90 seats and the LJP wins between 25-30 seats.'
'... so that the hospitals do not get overwhelmed. We have to avoid it at all costs.'
'If Pinarayi Vijayan gets another term, Kerala will be a state where everybody has a house.'
'Unless the State is a welfare State, unless the State has more welfare measures, it will not be able to deal with these kind of sudden situations.'
'The numbers of troops on both sides are enormous.' 'They are about 50,000-60,000 soldiers facing each other in that sector -- that's about the total number of troops that both sides had in the 1962 War in all sectors.'
'You can only see it when you look for it. Seek and you shall find.'
'More than losing Bengal, the worry for their national leadership is the current crisis.' 'If people perceive that the government does not do enough, then there's trouble.'
'China is mindful of the fact that it is not confronting the Indian Army of 1962. But the sabre rattling will continue.'
Some of these proposals came from big names of India Inc., such as Birla Cement, Steel Authority of India Ltd. and Jas Infrastructure and Power Ltd.
'We must be careful because China has not given its design in Eastern Ladakh.'
'Crores are spent on Martyrs Day and on lighting candles, but people don't respect living soldiers who are heroes.'
'You can't go on creating division and rhetoric of hate.' 'It comes to roost. We are seeing the first glimpses of that in the state elections.'
