'The future looks quite bleak unless we ramp up testing and start vaccinating on a war footing.'
'Only when you are close to the party, will you understand what the BJP stands for.'
'I knew there was a huge business opportunity, but it was Dr Kalam who made me jump into it as an entrepreneur.'
'When people who ignored us, when relatives who have not spoken to us for a long time, congratulated us, it was a proud moment for my mother.'
'What steps have the higher level of political leadership taken to remove corruption from the system and bring in honest governance?'
'... while leaving the dirty work he orders to his subordinates.'
'You will not have a vaccine for everyone initially.'
'When you have a committee, there will not be any autocracy.' 'It means one person cannot take any decision on the temple.'
'And that means all of us have to be very careful.'
'The skills and abilities of civil servants are still respected, even though they become whipping boys when things go wrong.'
'No matter how much the political pressure is, I cannot say I will bring the Moon for you tomorrow!'
'We still need a certain number of large public sector banks for financial inclusion and stability purposes.'
'There are a lot of companies that have been struggling really hard expecting to do better year after year.' 'All these people will think now, "Let me not fight any more. Let me end this".'
'We have been telling the government that we need handholding.' So, we sent a series of recommendations to the government, but nothing happened.' 'And the condition of industry became worse.'
'When an individual becomes authoritarian, you can overthrow the individual easily. 'When the system becomes authoritarian, whoever challenges the system will be called a criminal or an anti-national.'
Aruna Anand, Viswanathan Anand's wife and manager, speaks about his preparation ahead of the World Chess Championship against Magnus Carlsen, which begins in Sochi on Friday.
'Without reviving employment, consumer confidence will not go up.'
'There is good indication that the economy is bouncing back, but the problem is, we should look at the eight quarters preceding March 2020.' 'The growth had fallen below 3.1% before March 2020.' 'So, the governments must realise that even if you transform the best of green shoots into banyan trees, you see only 3.1% growth.'
'The group having rice flour and wheat flour showed an increase in glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c), and the group that took the jackfruit flour had a significant decrease in HbA1c.' 'Our results showed a decrease in fasting blood glucose (FBG) and postprandial glucose (PPG) after the green jackfruit flour meal.'
'We behaved as if this disease is not a problem for India.' 'We acted as if it would go away. But it didn't go away; it exploded.'
'If you want to really grow, it has to be geometric progression like it happened at the Centre or Haryana or Tripura, where you made a quantum jump.' 'This is possible in Kerala provided we present a better alternative with a great leadership, but the current leadership is busy fixing each other.'
'You have come out with a package for the kisan.' 'You have a package for industry.' 'But has anyone addressed the issues concerning small traders?'
'The virus has been ahead of us till now, and we have been chasing the virus.' 'It is time we have to be a step ahead of the virus, and this is possible only by checking the oxygen level.'
'The vaccine policy should be such that all people should get the vaccine free.'
Bindu Sampath from Thiruvananthapuram is the voice of all those mothers who have lost their children to ISIS. Her habeas corpus petition for her daughter Nimisha, who got married and converted to Islam, was turned down. Now the NIA has found daughter and family to be with ISIS in Afghanistan, but Bindu has not given up hope to bring her back to India.
'The Indian State needs to focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and law and order, and get out of all these regulatory cholesterols.' 'Then, India will fly.'
'The current financial year will see the full impact of this crisis, and we will start seeing the recovery in the next financial year.'
'Today, political formations seem to adopt an 'us' versus 'them' approach which shows up even in their attitude towards civil servants.'
'This creates an added layer of fear.'
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
'When the country is jobless, why should I pay through my nose to feed these people who want some perks in office?' 'Let them also join India's unemployed.' 'Let them also taste the bitter medicine of being jobless.'
'The babus in Delhi are not able to understand the pain industry is facing.'
'We keep worrying about this variant or that variant. Forget about that.' 'Every variant can be stopped with a mask.' 'We don't want to do the simple thing of wearing a mask, but we worry ourselves to death about different variants.'
'If at all there is going to be a second wave, it will not be very strong unlike in the US and Europe.'
'Where will industry have funds when they open up?'
'If you talk about any kind of equality, you are under attack.'
'What was the message that was going to them?' 'The message was, we are a great country and we have beaten Covid!' 'No one talked about the precautions to be taken.'
'We should start giving this vaccination immediately to doctors, nurses etc and also to the elderly.'
Arun Kumar is at home after his dramatic escape from violence-hit South Sudan. But he is preparing to return to his business, his life, his 'everything'.
'The advocate tells me not to worry as truth will prevail one day.' 'I don't know... I am losing all hope...'
'If we again become complacent at the end of the second wave, we are going to suffer more as it will be even more intense.'
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