One of Sanjay Dutt's biggest fans will serve his restaurant's signature dish on February 25 to celebrate Dutt's release from jail.
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
'BJP has achieved its aim by making him a regional leader dependent on them.'
'The Congress can exist without (someone from) the Nehru-Gandhi family being its president.'
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...
'That would be very bad for them and suicidal for both the Gandhis and the Congress party.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf applauds The Kapil Sharma Show's reincarnation.
'In politics, not everything is spoken and there are a lot of messaging done very discreetly.'
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.
'The PM of India was 20 km away from the Pakistan border and he is one of the persons under extreme threat from that country and they put his life in danger.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf unravels the chronology of controversy in the Aryan Khan drug bust case.
Journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on August 18 for a retweet and has been in custody ever since.
'BJP takes Lingayat support and later on they throw them out, ditch them and humiliate them.' After months of speculation Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa resigned from the chief minister's post. A powerful Lingayat community leader, Yediyurappa could not even complete his term, owing to the internal politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party. So how does Lingayat community view his exit? Congress working president, Karnataka state and Lingayat leader Eshwar Khandre speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, said, "The community which voted him and felt that they will lead the government are now disenchanted."
'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.' 'They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.'
Want to live in Maharashtra, follow these eight rules or get jailed. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on the proposed Maharashtra Protection of Internal Security Act.
'One man went berserk or rogue that does not mean the Mumbai police should be ashamed.'
'People are questioning these highways and expressways in UP because ultimately, they want to get bread and butter first.'
'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
'They did not spare the girls or teachers; they beat all of them.' 'We kept calling the police, but no one came.'
'India's treatment to a member of parliament of Afghanistan was not good and I am very upset about this action.'
'Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal are the two people who have been marked and punished'
'Bommai's predicament is pathetic right now because deep inside he is not like this, but to remain in power he has to talk and speak against his own conscience.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com tracks Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's project-launching spree with just about three months to go for the assembly election in India's most populous state.
'Goa is a tiny state, but in terms of its Business of Politics, several powerful lobbies of India are involved in it, be it the mining lobby, hoteliers' lobby, casino lobby, hawala lobby, drugs lobby etc.'
Sanju is a repeat of Munnabhai, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Just keep telling people that we have fixed the Muslims, and they will not be bothered about their empty stomachs or empty wallets.'
'Our country does not need an NRC. We need to improve our economy which is in a bad condition.'
'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
'There are 17 million Hindus in Bangladesh and we, in the north east, see this Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a route for them to enter India on the plea that they are facing persecution in Bangladesh.'
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha's tenures in the Rajya Sabha end this month.
'People will feel cheated as they always felt a part of India. We want to be with India and we want people of India to accept us.' Laway tells Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'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).'
'He is not acting solo.' 'The plot may have people within the Congress and outside.'
Where do the four members of the Supreme Court appointed panel to interface with farmers stand on the Modi government's farm laws?
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
'It will take a long time for people's memory to be misled by a prime minister who is so arrogant and who refuses to acknowledge his own faults.'
'There was a revolt. They were fighting for their rights.' 'They lost their rights after colonial forest policies came into place.' 'These freedom fighters were trying to reassert those rights.'
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