All stories by SYED FIRDAUS ASHRAF
The Hindu girl who challenged Haryana govt to marry a Muslim
Rediff.com8 Aug 2018'They told me that the marriage registrar would send a letter to my parents informing them about my marriage.'
'You can't buy land in Himachal, Sikkim, so why target J&K?'
Rediff.com7 Aug 2018'The BJP wants to find an excuse to polarise people.' 'Whatever rights J&K has got from the Constitution of India, they want to snatch it.' 'By doing so, they are harming J&K as well as India.'
'Don't want Assam to become another Kashmir'
Rediff.com3 Aug 2018'There is a design of fundamentalists that the north east must become an Islamic country.'
How the Muzaffarpur sex scandal was unearthed
Rediff.com2 Aug 2018'Nobody in our team had any idea that these things will come out.' 'We need to do a social audit of all the shelter homes across the country.'
'India is not a dharamshala for Bangladeshi refugees'
Rediff.com1 Aug 2018'Bangladeshi Muslims want to increase their population in India.' 'They have made colonies in India.' 'Rohingyas are doing the same.' 'This has to stop.'
'BJP wants to reduce Assamese to a minority'
Rediff.com30 Jul 2018'The central and Assamese governments want to get 35 lakh to 40 lakh Bangladeshis (Hindus) to come to Assam and make the Assamese people a minority.' 'They want to make Assam a Bengali state.' 'Bengalis by nature are BJP supporters whereas Assamese people don't support the BJP.'
'I will never repeat my old mistakes. I will make fresh ones'
Rediff.com27 Jul 2018Saeed Mirza's advice for young India
'If I smuggle cows, should I be killed?'
Rediff.com26 Jul 2018'You cannot give authority to citizens to start policing the State.'
'BJP government is doing precious little to stop cattle smuggling'
Rediff.com26 Jul 2018'The previous (Congress) government at least did not veto provisions of the cattle laws.' 'The BJP is actively weakening the provisions.' 'The BJP government tried to export goats from Nagpur for slaughter to the Middle East.' 'The whole country was aghast and offended. We are a country of Ahimsa.' 'The BJP has incentivised the butcher industry so meat export has gone up, live animal export has gone up, leather export is on the rise, smuggling has gone up.'
Why this Muslim wants to ban green flag with crescent and star
Rediff.com24 Jul 2018'Tension is being created in society because of this green flag, which is not even an Islamic flag.' 'There is no history of such a green flag being used in the Muslim world.'
'BJP uses nine tongues simultaneously'
Rediff.com20 Jul 2018'The top level will be development and then sab ka saath, sab ka vikas.' 'But at the street level, the tongue will be vicious.'
'Why should I be like Karan Johar?'
Rediff.com18 Jul 2018'Will you take a Mercedes Benz or Rolex watches or fancy shoes to your grave?'
Why India's milk producers are angry
Rediff.com17 Jul 2018'While dairy farmers are suffering from low prices, consumers are paying a high price for milk.'
'It is too early to say if Muslims will vote for Congress'
Rediff.com13 Jul 2018'Electricity, better roads and uninterrupted water supply are problems for everyone in India, not Muslims alone.' 'Regional parties are solving these problems much better. And for that reason, Muslims favour regional parties.'
'How can you call a Bharat Ratna a fattu?'
Rediff.com10 Jul 2018Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com finds out why Sacred Games has run into trouble.
7 Facts Sanju doesn't tell you
Rediff.com10 Jul 2018Sanju is a blockbuster, but did it get all its facts correct? yed Firdaus Ashraf reveals seven facts Director Rajkumar Hirani overlooked in Sanju.
'Modi's MSP announcement is an election game'
Rediff.com5 Jul 2018'This announcement is big foolishness.' 'The government has no idea of economics. They are just announcing what comes to their mind.' 'Let them implement what they have announced and just see what will happen in two years.'
'This is like a genocide and dictatorship'
Rediff.com5 Jul 2018In a year of the Yogi Adityanath regime in Uttar Pradesh, the state has witnessed 1,500 police encounter in which 58 criminals have been killed. On July 2, the Supreme Court sought a reply from the UP government on the issue of police encounter killings after advocate Sanjay Parekh appearing for the People's Union for Civil Liberties pointed out that gross human rights violations were being carried out through these killings under the Adityanath rule. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, PUCL's advocate Sanjay Parekh said that police encounters are not permissible in a democracy.
The hero motorman who saved many lives
Rediff.com3 Jul 2018Chandrashekhar Sawant halted the train by applying the emergency brake when he saw the debris falling as the train was approaching the collapsing bridge.
'Now hate has become acceptable'
Rediff.com29 Jun 2018'Fear is not created by those who are defending minorities and Dalits.' 'Fear is being created by the actions of political leaders like Yogi Adityanath and police forces.' 'The kind of hate statements that are being made to which there is silence from the prime minister's side.'