All stories by SHOBHA WARRIER
'Climate change is used as an excuse for calamities'
Rediff.com11 Sep 2021'It is high time that we act instead of just talking about how and why the climate is changing.'
'NMP is very tough to execute'
Rediff.com6 Sep 2021'There will be political opposition, and this monetisation will require continued political will.'
'NMP is a great way of creating jobs'
Rediff.com6 Sep 2021'This will have a multiplier effect in generating more jobs.'
'After saade saath saal, Modi govt has come of age!'
Rediff.com1 Sep 2021'It has taken 7-and-a-half years for this government to understand the fundamentals of economics.' 'If the prime minister wants to leave an imprint, he has to see to it that this succeeds.'
'This will encourage states to go for their own monetisation programmes'
Rediff.com30 Aug 2021'They are also sitting on huge public sector assets without many returns.'
'Monetisation of assets has come 75 years too late'
Rediff.com28 Aug 2021'When the government wants to sell these assets, even if one set of assets gets caught in any quagmire, the whole process will fail.' 'The entire world is watching us.'
Covid: 'Third Wave May Be Tiny Wave'
Rediff.com26 Aug 2021''A third wave is very likely to come because infection is still around.' 'But it can be just a ripple.'
'Only when it comes down to less than 10,000 cases can we relax'
Rediff.com26 Aug 2021'We still have 30,000-40,000 cases.' 'It is plateauing, but the number should definitely come down more so that we can convert the pandemic into an endemic.'
'India is not for sale'
Rediff.com25 Aug 2021'This plan is basically to allow some of the government assets for rent, and surely not for sale.' 'There is a difference between selling a house and renting out a house.'
'Save my grand-daughter from the Taliban'
Rediff.com19 Aug 2021'They must be hiding somewhere in a country where the Taliban would not even spare a 4-year-old girl.'
'Why can't they catch the big thief?'
Rediff.com19 Aug 2021'What the RBI is doing is trying to catch the mouse when they have to catch the tiger.'
'What is RBI doing when these frauds were happening?'
Rediff.com19 Aug 2021'Let them put their house in order first.' 'Let the RBI first rectify themselves.'
'Our space mission failure rate is only 5%, when it is 10% globally'
Rediff.com12 Aug 2021'ISRO is resilient enough to spring back and come with a solution quickly.'
'India is like a garden'
Rediff.com3 Aug 2021'...that has plants and flowers of all colours and hues in it.' 'Do you think a garden with just one plant or one type of flower will be appealing?' 'No. It will look drab, uninteresting and lustreless because a garden would be captivating only if it had many flowers of different colours.'
Meet these Superstar Sisters!
Rediff.com28 Jul 2021'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.'
The king who shunned glamour
Rediff.com24 Jul 2021'Simplicity was very much a hallmark of the Kerala lifestyle those days.'
'PM has gone for good administrators'
Rediff.com23 Jul 2021'Whether it will create an impact or not, only time will tell.'
'With reshuffle, there is an acceptance of some failures'
Rediff.com23 Jul 2021'Visibly there is a posturing that everything is fine. That creates a bit of a problem.'
Why did Kerala governor fast against dowry?
Rediff.com15 Jul 2021'What we see today is bargaining.' 'The man's family sets a price for him and then they start bargaining.' 'He is sold to the family that offers the highest price.' 'In this market, a woman is just a commodity to be sold because if she remained at home, it is a humiliation for the family.'
'He treated the President and a poor man the same way'
Rediff.com14 Jul 2021'His last journey was like putting out the lamps one by one in a temple at night.' 'It was like the soul slowly walking away from the body; it was so pure and peaceful...'