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O citizen, un-besotted by zeal, Un-fathered by the state, Between the heat wave And the hate wave Take your pick;…
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.
Returning from the dying moment Cannot be in vain
Prices of fuels and food, and all other commodities are sky-high, beyond the reach of some eighty percent of citizens
The piety of the politic pious Is cruelty without redress
The question also arises as to why the corporate class, barring an exception or two, is so silent in the face of rising vigilantism
If moral teaching is to be part of a school curriculum in a multi-religious polity like our republic, there should be no argument against including moral insights from all our religions
The party needs to find a new consensus to forge its way ahead, and this consensus has to involve even ordinary party workers
Arvind Kejriwal’s success in Punjab cannot be replicated in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar
Then there are times When thoughts find no words
“Great communicators” of the current parlance seek to rob us of our cognitive faculties; but communicators who contribute to lasting ethical and intellectual values seek to do the opposite