The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.


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We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. ...
SALMAN AZIZ
When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to ...
SALMAN AZIZ
People change just in a blink! You won’t get any explanation for that. They change in front of you...
SALMAN AZIZ
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously unde...
SALMAN KHAN
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to de...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildin...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is ...
SALMAN KHAN
These are the kinds of curious, mysterious, and original minds that often end up making major contri...
SALMAN KHAN
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in ret...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Our lives teach us who we are.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitud...
SALMAN KHAN
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside re...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity o...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You'v...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not ...
SALMAN KHAN
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shap...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, sha...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to ...
SALMAN KHAN
If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I tur...
SALMAN KHAN
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
SALMAN ADITYA
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characte...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the f...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE