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The revanchist government of the day was clearly canny enough to understand that removing Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the rural employment guarantee scheme…
Badri Raina
Badri Raina is a well-known commentator on politics, culture and society. His columns on the Znet have a global following. Raina taught English literature at the University of Delhi for over four decades and is the author of the much acclaimed Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth. He has several collections of poems and translations. His writings have appeared in nearly all major English dailies and journals in India.
Who does not know that Gandhi has always been a thorn in the side of the right-wing for having defined swaraj as the…
There is this difference between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi: during his electioneering for the United States’ presidency, Trump had forthrightly declared,…
Notice the example the Election Commission of India is setting for wishy-washy democracies of the world. The electoral process must be enforced…
On the 26th day of November, 2025, as we celebrated “Constitution Day,” two very opposed signals about the republic invited us to…
In an unsurprisingly puerile Ramnath Goenka Lecture, Narendra Modi has re-invoked the favourite cultural hobby-horse of the “indigenous,” upper caste, North-Indian elite. By…
Now who doesn’t know that Donald Trump’s mission in Presidency is to stop all wars. Which is why he seems poised to…
In yet another peroration on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the RSS, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, with characteristic balance and good…
In the area of Humanist studies in sociology it is perhaps hard to find a more endearing concept than that of the…
It seems our Sanatan continues to ride a dual horse of convenience when it comes to caste identities: it speaks of caste…