My wife says I should get four wickets in every T20, as if it is like getting it at a supermarket, but it was fun to do it this time.
Tabraiz Shamsi
South African cricketer, after taking five wickets against England in a recent T20I match
Is that sound still coming? Fixed that? There will be no sound, because the loudspeaker which used to ring every day at 8am has now been stopped.
Eknath Shinde
Maharashtra chief minister, after Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate
There is a compelling moral case for Indians to support the brave resistance of the Ukrainian people. And I believe there is a political case, too…. India’s support could have decisively swung the narrative against Russia, compelling it to come to the negotiating table.
Ramachandra Guha
historian
When women broke the barriers and got elected to the chair, the word was changed to ‘chairperson’. This is not a minor question of semantics. Patriarchy is reflected in the language that often invisbilises women. It needs to be challenged and changed.
Brinda Karat
CPI(M) leader, after Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury apologised for referring to the president as ‘rashtrapatni’.
All the A-lister heroes refused to work with me because I won’t compromise. It is very simple—they like actresses who they can control and who will compromise with them. I am not that, my personality isn’t that. I did not want to subject myself to someone’s whims and fancies. And sit, stand, anything.
Mallika Sherawat
actor