Everyone gets a single room nowadays. But if I get a chance to share a room, there are two people with whom I would not want to share—[cricketers] Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant. They are very messy. After practice, they just toss their clothes on the bed.
Rohit Sharma
cricketer
Ordinary Muslims of India, since 2014, live in a state of perpetual fear. There is a concerted process of what I call ‘otherisation’, wherein a particular collectivity comes to be excluded from routine social and political processes, as much as it is also at the receiving end of violence and prejudicial treatment.
Tanweer Fazal
political sociologist
Anyone making such claims should be taken to a mental hospital and get their brain examined. They need to check whether both the left and right brains are functioning properly.
K. Annamalai
BJP leader, on actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s remark that Nagpur would become the national capital if Narendra Modi returns to power
The PM has made jails everywhere. In one pocket, you have the NIA and in another pocket you have the CBI. In one pocket the ED, and in another pocket the income tax [department]. While the NIA and the CBI are brothers of the BJP, the income tax [department] are the BJP’s fund-collection box.
Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal CM
There will always be people around you who have more or less than you. And in the hustle to reach the top we forget there is no top…. I am okay with not becoming the biggest thing ever, but I want to make sure I live happily every day of my life. You are not as significant as you think you are in your head.
Taapsee Pannu
actor