Shobha Warrier has extensively covered the Sabarimala issue for Rediff.com. She is the author of His Days with Bapu: Gandhi's Personal Secretary Recalls among several books. You can e-mail the author at shobhaw@rediff.co.in
'The worst is possibly over because too many of us may already be infected.'
'Even after vaccines are given, precautions like using a mask and maintaining social distancing have to be taken.'
'He was tortured in police custody.' '"Do you not have any rape cases to write about in Kerala?" "Why is it that a Muslim from Kerala has so much sympathy for a Dalit woman in UP?" "Why did Rahul Gandhi visit your wife?"' 'These were the kind of questions the UP police asked him.'
'If at all there is going to be a second wave, it will not be very strong unlike in the US and Europe.'
'There is a Covid vaccine-mania that is happening in the world now and the vaccine makers are using this mania for their own gains'
'What steps have the higher level of political leadership taken to remove corruption from the system and bring in honest governance?'
'I am sceptical of the Indian economy returning to a sustained high-growth trajectory any time soon'
'On the evening of the 17th, the RBI said the bank was put on moratorium.' 'Within an hour, the RBI said it would be merged with DBS.' 'How did DBS come to know within an hour that LVB was in trouble?' 'It means, what happened was match-fixing.'
'The question is, how soon we can expect to re-attain the pre-lockdown levels of output and income.'
'... while leaving the dirty work he orders to his subordinates.'
''None of the existing vaccines have 100% efficacy.' 'Each vaccine will work openly on a certain percentage of the population.'
'You will not have a vaccine for everyone initially.'
'The propagation of an absolutist narrative that shuts down any dissent is dangerous, irresponsible, and unbecoming of India's proud democracy.' 'The government must do better.'
'MGNREGA is definitely like a lifeline and is the employer of the last resort'
'It may take two years for the economy to return to normal.' 'We should ensure that the vulnerable do not dig into their savings or give up their assets because that will set them back by several years.'
'When Arnab Goswami's arrest became a talking point, the case of my husband who was arrested much earlier, was totally ignored.' 'When so many people spoke in support of Goswami, they were silent on a journalist named Siddique Kappan'
Gopalan Balachandran recalls his eldest sister Dr Sushila Gopalan and her daughter Kamala who is now the US vice-president-elect.
'One cannot take it that the economy has recovered, and the GST payment has increased because of that, or that production is back to January 2020 level.'
'Without reviving employment, consumer confidence will not go up.'
'Better hygiene practices could lower a person's immunity and make the person susceptible to auto-immune diseases.'
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