All stories by SHOBHA WARRIER
'For Modi, workers and farmers are terrorists'
Rediff.com29 Mar 2021'The regime -- and particularly the home ministry under Amit Shah -- have sought to suppress and destroy these struggles through intimidation, bullying, threats, through false cases, arrests, custodial torture, the use of draconian laws like the UAPA.'
'Pinarayi Vijayan has been the target of the most vicious personal attacks'
Rediff.com29 Mar 2021'During Amit Shah's recent visit to Kerala, the strategy of concentrating the attacks on the CM on false charges was clear enough.'
'If AIADMK wins, they will not be ruling Tamil Nadu'
Rediff.com29 Mar 2021'The BJP will be the ruling party.'
'BJP and CPM coming together'
Rediff.com23 Mar 2021'Both the CPM and the BJP have one agenda, and that is to keep the Congress out.' 'That's why they are coming together.'
'Sonia, Rahul don't care if you leave the party'
Rediff.com19 Mar 2021'The Congress cannot appreciate people with an independent opinion.' 'That's why many people left the party.'
'BJP has unleashed central agencies on their political opponents'
Rediff.com18 Mar 2021'Our views are different on fundamental matters right from the question of citizenship, all the way up to what the character of the Government should be, how a democracy should function and whether investigation agencies should be allowed to function independently.'
'Congress is indirectly helping the BJP'
Rediff.com17 Mar 2021'Every Congressperson is disillusioned in different degrees.'
'LDF has more than 50% chance of coming back to power'
Rediff.com16 Mar 2021'For the UDF, it will depend on how far Rahul Gandhi will succeed with the goodwill he has.' 'That will make a difference.'
Kerala 2021: Why Pinarayi Vijayan may make history
Rediff.com12 Mar 2021'While the Congressmen were fighting, the LDF was quietly doing its job, perhaps bringing in results in the lives of the people.' 'Pinarayi Vijayan and several ministers in his cabinet believed that the government should do real business, which is not to fight with the UDF but govern.'
'Congress in Kerala is all the time suicidal'
Rediff.com9 Mar 2021'The presence of Rahul Gandhi and his campaigning for the Congress will make a general difference, but whether it will make a saving difference, not sure.'
A worker would take 10,000 years to earn what Mukesh Ambani made in an hour during the pandemic
Rediff.com5 Mar 2021'The top 11 billionaires in India added so much to their wealth during the pandemic that it would have sustained MNREGA for 10 years or the ministry of health for 10 years.'
'Virus has shown us the inequalities of society'
Rediff.com5 Mar 2021'Inequality has been growing in the world. The virus has only amplified it.'
'Every day you wake up to see who was arrested last night'
Rediff.com2 Mar 2021'If you talk about any kind of equality, you are under attack.'
'Projecting the country in a wrong way is sedition'
Rediff.com26 Feb 2021'When you talk badly of the country and project a bad image of the country to the rest of the world, is it not sedition?'
'Kerala will vote for BJP because of me'
Rediff.com26 Feb 2021'My joining the BJP will definitely result in a landslide migration of votes to the BJP.'
'My country is walking down a dark path'
Rediff.com25 Feb 2021'The only reason why these troubling developments are taking place is because of a certain arrogance of power displayed by this government that hopes to clamp down on those voices which have repeatedly pointed out that their bloated rhetoric and grandstanding are not matched by their insipid and tepid response in matters of governance.'
'What they want from us all is total submission, obedience'
Rediff.com25 Feb 2021'How ironic that a party that seeks to arrogate the mantle of nationalism to itself is actually behaving like the imperial oppressors.'
'We should be moving towards Aatmavishwas Bharat rather than Aatmanirbhar Bharat'
Rediff.com23 Feb 2021'What do the moves towards protectionism suggest?' 'That we do not have Aatmavishwas.' 'If you have self-confidence, confidence in your ability to compete with the best in the world, why do you need protectionism?'
'It would be a mistake to allow private sector corporate groups to own banks'
Rediff.com18 Feb 2021'We still need a certain number of large public sector banks for financial inclusion and stability purposes.'
'Expect K-shaped, not V-shaped, recovery'
Rediff.com16 Feb 2021'This is happening regardless of the Budget.'