All stories by SHOBHA WARRIER
Is Pinarayi jealous of Shailaja's popularity?
Rediff.com19 May 2021'Here is a woman who has got widespread appreciation for her work.' 'Social media was full of posts wanting her as the chief ministerial candidate.' 'This kind of popularity did not go well within the party.' 'See, today the party is Pinarayi Vijayan!'
'Our healthcare system has collapsed'
Rediff.com19 May 2021'Both the Centre and the states cannot say that they have been taking good care of public health.'
''BJP can't put India under their thumb'
Rediff.com15 May 2021'The BJP will not be able to create dictatorship of the kind it is perhaps dreaming of.' 'We have Bengal as the biggest example.'
'When people needed oxygen, RBI gave them Horlicks'
Rediff.com12 May 2021'Are they assuming that by the end of May or the 15th of June, we will see the end of the pandemic?'
'Our vaccine policy is like temple darshan'
Rediff.com12 May 2021'If you pay Rs 1,000, you get a special queue.' 'If you pay Rs 500, there will be another shorter queue.' 'There will be a separate queue for Rs 300.' 'Is this the way you give vaccine to the people?'
'Cases will keep increasing in the next few weeks'
Rediff.com10 May 2021'And that means all of us have to be very careful.'
'Should we wait till 10,000 people die every day to close down?'
Rediff.com6 May 2021'We don't have any more time.' 'We should close down, and vaccinate as many people as possible.'
'Economy can bounce back, but the dead won't come back'
Rediff.com6 May 2021'Unless some serious steps like complete closedown are taken, it will have disastrous consequences.'
'We may have 5 lakh-10 lakh infections per day and around 5,000 deaths a day by mid-May'
Rediff.com6 May 2021'Even with 3 lakh cases a day, we have saturated our resources.' 'It is scary to even think what will happen when the number doubles.'
'India is at the threshold of 1939-40 Germany!'
Rediff.com30 Apr 2021'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.'
'Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu will challenge BJP'
Rediff.com30 Apr 2021'If Kerala votes back the LDF, if Tamil Nadu brings the DMK and if Bengal votes for the Trinamool, we will project a formidable opposition to the BJP.'
'How can you chain a human being like an animal?'
Rediff.com28 Apr 2021'People ask me from where I get the strength to fight this battle. I really do not know.' 'Perhaps God is giving me the strength as I am fighting for truth.'
'When the deadly second wave came, Modi got exposed'
Rediff.com27 Apr 2021'We will see a kind of disaster which the country has not seen in the last 100 years.'
'I don't know whether I should live...'
Rediff.com16 Apr 2021'The advocate tells me not to worry as truth will prevail one day.' 'I don't know... I am losing all hope...'
'Second and third waves will be more intense'
Rediff.com16 Apr 2021'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.'
'Congress will be dead, CPM will also break'
Rediff.com3 Apr 2021'Only when you are close to the party, will you understand what the BJP stands for.'
'It will take more than 30 years for the BJP to come to power in Kerala'
Rediff.com31 Mar 2021'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.'
'Tamilians don't believe in BJP's Hindutva'
Rediff.com30 Mar 2021'Even though we are very religious and God fearing, we do not subscribe to the kind of Hindutva they practise, a very hierarchical, Brahmanical, Hindutva.'
'BJP is the Ayatollah of Hinduism'
Rediff.com30 Mar 2021'They are all the time asking people not to do this, not to do that.' 'Their version of society and Hinduism is very warped; not an inclusive one.'
How we can DEFEAT Covid in 6 months!
Rediff.com30 Mar 2021'If we wear a mask, social distance and vaccinate as many people, we may come out of this pandemic in 6 months' time.' 'If we decide to be disciplined, we can get out of this pandemic in the next 6 months.' 'If not, it is any body's guess.'