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Voices

"I am taking your leave for the second time within a year. Now that my second knee has been operated upon, I won't trouble you a third time because I cannot bring forth a third one."
A.B. Vajpayee, prime minister, to press people in Mumbai

"After Kargil, one cannot go ahead as if everything is normal. After the tremendous expectations generated in Lahore, Kargil in one sense destroyed the trust."
Vijay Nambiar, Indian high commissioner in Islamabad

"It is not for the Government to provide jobs. The private sector is there to take care of that."
S.M. Krishna, Karnataka chief minister, at the Congress chief ministers' conference convened by party President Sonia Gandhi

"The media and the film industry have a symbiotic relationship. They should not cross certain parameters and character-assassinate. They even make things look communal."
Aishwarya Rai, film actress, about film journalists linking her with actor Salman Khan, on the BBC programme Face to Face

VIS-A-VIS

"We bowled too short. Anyway, the Indian team is not exactly overflowing with bowling resources."
John Wright, Coach, Indian cricket team

"I don't think our bowlers bowled badly. We just didn't have the runs on the board to win us the game."
Saurav Ganguly, Captain, Indian cricket team