All stories by SYED FIRDAUS ASHRAF
'My conscience didn't allow me to take the award'
Rediff.com10 Dec 2020'Farmers must get Maximum Support Price instead of Minimum Support Price.'
Why BJP won big in Hyderabad, and is on the way to win South India
Rediff.com9 Dec 2020'They take each and every election with seriousness.' 'No other political party has that kind of cadre who is strongly aligned with the reason, motto and ideology of their party.'
Why this Muslim leader quit Owaisi to join Mamata
Rediff.com1 Dec 2020'I will not say that the AIMIM is a 'B' team of the BJP. But due to the AIMIM, the BJP benefits for sure'
Coolie No 1: What Varun has in common with Rahul Gandhi
Rediff.com30 Nov 2020Just as Rahul wants to ride on his family's history in politics, Varun Dhawan hopes he can ride on daddy David Dhawan's successful shoulders, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
How Ahmed Patel became close to Sonia Gandhi
Rediff.com27 Nov 2020'Temperamentally, they are quite alike.' 'Ahmed Patel avoided the limelight and was not a power seeker.' 'The Gandhis too are not power wielders, but trustees of power.'
'Tarun Gogoi played the role of healer in Assam society'
Rediff.com24 Nov 2020'Gogoi will be remembered as someone who recovered Assam as a state, as a people and society from the fear of insurgency that had struck the state from the 1980s till 2000.'
'Your money is safe with nationalised banks'
Rediff.com23 Nov 2020'No commercial bank will be allowed to fail. There is nothing to worry about.'
'We are in search of a Shiva to consume the poison from banking system'
Rediff.com23 Nov 2020'Should the government be in the business of running banks?' 'Particularly when it does not have the fiscal strength to continuously infuse capital into such banks?'
'Secular parties cannot rule forever by showing fear of the BJP to Muslims'
Rediff.com13 Nov 2020'We have finished that fear.'
'Modi has no excuse not to run trains'
Rediff.com12 Nov 2020'The central government is putting conditions on farmers organisations, that they have to allow passenger trains to ply, only then will they allow goods trains to ply.'
'Nitish Kumar has to be a junior partner of the BJP'
Rediff.com11 Nov 2020'BJP has achieved its aim by making him a regional leader dependent on them.'
'I will tackle blackmailer RTI activists'
Rediff.com30 Oct 2020'If people want to blackmail others to get information or harm things, so why will someone give them information?'
Why Mughal-e-Azam will never die
Rediff.com28 Oct 2020Did you know Nargis was to have played the Madhubala role, but opted out because she has reservations about working with Dilip Kumar? Do you know how Naushad and Shakeel Badayuni came up with the words for the immortal Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya?
Hathras case: The strange case of the doctors
Rediff.com23 Oct 2020Dr Azeem Malik and Dr Obaid Haque had attended to the alleged rape victim when she was brought to the Aligarh hospital. They were later sacked, then reinstated.
Why Hathras has the BJP worried
Rediff.com16 Oct 2020'Among Dalits, the Valmikis were the biggest voters of the BJP.' 'They now feel Yogiji has failed them in Hathras.'
When your husband is jailed for a retweet...
Rediff.com15 Oct 2020Journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on August 18 for a retweet and has been in custody ever since.
'UP is what Modi wants India to be'
Rediff.com9 Oct 2020'This government puts poor people behind bars, demonises women after their death, puts out the call records of deceased raped victims and robs her of her dignity.'
'Farmers will wipe out the BJP in elections'
Rediff.com7 Oct 2020'They will not get more than two seats in Haryana if elections are held now.'
'Women must live within limits'
Rediff.com6 Oct 2020'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'