'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).'
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
'Our country does not need an NRC. We need to improve our economy which is in a bad condition.'
'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.'
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.
Where do the four members of the Supreme Court appointed panel to interface with farmers stand on the Modi government's farm laws?
'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.'
'One cannot avoid speculating whether there was something else at play that led to the uncovering of this saga.'
'This issue is related to national security because they were compromising the entire capital markets's core infrastructure by leaking confidential information.' 'What would have happened if the servers had come down?' 'Or some confidential information leaked to terrorists who could have knocked out our capital market?'
Sanju is a repeat of Munnabhai, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'He is not acting solo.' 'The plot may have people within the Congress and outside.'
'303 seats ki sarkar has problems with a cartoonist.'
'Every Congress leader in UP and the rest of India is calling me and thanking me that finally someone spoke about this JNU gang ruling the Congress party in UP.'
Cities, roads, stations rechristened in the time of Modi.
'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.
'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.'
'Destabilising the Yediyurappa government is not a cakewalk.' 'If he is destabilised, then the BJP will have problems in Karnataka.'
'Nehru wanted to strengthen industries by exploiting agriculture and that policy was continued by successive governments.'
Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha's tenures in the Rajya Sabha end this month.
'We are trying to trace them.' 'We feel their phone batteries must have died because they are travelling by road.'
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'When she left on June 8 after some kind of fight or break-up she did not think Sushant would die.' 'She did not think his family after his death would level such horrible accusations against her.' 'She did not think three agencies would be tasked to prove her to a bad woman.'
'While I am talking to you, I have no idea whether I'm infected or not.' 'I just want to go back home safely.'
'Our movement was not about putting any flag on the Red Fort, but it is to secure our livelihood.'
'On January 22, when the last round of talks took place, the farmer leaders were told by Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar that the government is also prepared.' 'And they did this.'
'One reason given for the failure of the Congress in Assam was due to the alliance with the AIUDF.'
'Whenever the Government of India throws the debris, they will not take such care of the mosque's debris and Muslims may object to such a move at that time.'
'He felt that he had no place in the BJP and he was wrong.'
'Look at the aggressive way in which a campaign against Friday namaz is going on in North Indian cities.' 'Even the Union home minister is part of this vicious campaign.'
>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
'These charges of the prosecution will fall to the ground and I am 100 per cent sure of that.'
'Congress and BSP are in the fray, but not in the contest.'
'If timely action was taken by the CBI, the other three murders could have been prevented.'
'This is a crisis which did not happen overnight. It was happening slowly.' 'Now we are mining very fast and this crisis won't last long.'
'There is a cost to war.' 'The West knows that and so does Putin.' 'The point is, how much of the cost are both sides willing to pay?'
'They were only chanting one slogan, "Ghar jaana hai (we want to go home)".'
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