All stories by SYED FIRDAUS ASHRAF
'Mumbai police has many honest officers'
Rediff.com8 Apr 2021'It is just that they are not in the limelight in a city like Mumbai.' 'It is not a lonely journey, but a tough journey for sure.'
'Ever Given's Indian crew won't be punished'
Rediff.com31 Mar 2021'The Ever Given, which had 200,000 tonnes of cargo, was too long for the Suez Canal.'
'Government is taking LIC on BSNL route'
Rediff.com25 Mar 2021'The government wants foreign companies to capture the insurance market.'
'Sachin Waze is not Mumbai police'
Rediff.com23 Mar 2021'One man went berserk or rogue that does not mean the Mumbai police should be ashamed.'
'BJP may have a lot of money, but their organisational resources are weak'
Rediff.com22 Mar 2021'Mamata is campaigning hard and not giving the BJP a walkover.'
'Abolish reservations and private education!'
Rediff.com19 Mar 2021'Where should shudra-OBCs go because of whom the nation is surviving?'
'Jai Shri Ram is an anti-Mamata slogan'
Rediff.com12 Mar 2021'It did not start as a Hindutva slogan.' 'It started to tease the TMC and slowly it got internalised and the BJP started countering with Jai Shri Ram slogans because Mamata was getting provoked.'
'No one can touch Bharatiya Muslims'
Rediff.com11 Mar 2021'Netaji Bose followed the concept of Bharatiya and he united all religions and communities of India as Bharatiya.' 'I follow that politics of Netaji and so does the BJP.'
'Farmers' movement is not only alive, but is kicking'
Rediff.com11 Mar 2021'This government will end after five years, but farmers will not end after five years.' 'This is the source of our confidence.'
'Modi-Shah saved a revolt in Uttarakhand BJP'
Rediff.com10 Mar 2021'If Modi-Shah had not changed the leadership, one section would have parted ways with the BJP for sure.'
'Modi will solve Naga issue'
Rediff.com4 Mar 2021'PM Modi is not taking Kashmir's stance as far as the Naga issue is concerned.'
Op Silent Viper: How a rapist was caught after 22 years
Rediff.com26 Feb 2021'When a criminal assumes a new identity he think everybody knows them by that name only.' 'Criminals forget that the police are always hunting for them to put them in jail.'
Renaming in Modi's India: From cities to fruits
Rediff.com24 Feb 2021Cities, roads, stations rechristened in the time of Modi.
Explained: Why are fuel prices rising in India?
Rediff.com19 Feb 2021The oil crisis could not have come at a worse time for the Modi government as its tax collection has fallen short of its 2020-2021 target by Rs 5.2 lakh crore.
'Govt wants 1.38 bn Indians to be yes men of the ruling party'
Rediff.com18 Feb 2021'It is a sad day when social activists, environmental campaigners, anti-corruption workers are singled out as anti-nationals and then criminalised.'
'Government wants to turn us into goats and sheep'
Rediff.com18 Feb 2021'Silencing citizens has become a major institutional process under this regime.' 'The anti-Indian argument is a bogey -- meant to silence independent thinking people in India and turn us into goats and sheep.'
'Farm laws will have to be repealed'
Rediff.com11 Feb 2021'The issue is not whether the farm laws are beneficial for the farmers or not.' 'The farmers have taken a stand that they do not want these laws.' 'Why do you want to thrust these laws down their throat?'
'Should we have such thin skin?'
Rediff.com10 Feb 2021'I don't believe that it beholds democracies like us who claim to be the largest democracy in the world, to have such a thin skin about the possibility of foreign commentary.'
'You can't build large dams in the Himalayas'
Rediff.com8 Feb 2021'We have been appealing to various governments for so many years that there should be no dams in the Himalayas, but no one listens.' 'Nature responded in its own way.'
'Intense sun melted glacier'
Rediff.com8 Feb 2021'Unlike in the Kedarnath floods of 2013, which happened due to heavy rains, no such thing happened in Chamoli.' 'The damage was done only because of the hot sun.'