Badri Raina

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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.

There continues to be unlettered heartburn about the definition of “appropriate time” with respect to returning statehood to Jammu & Kashmir.As if…

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