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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 was the bicycle before there was the auto. And there was the bicycle before there was “terrorism”. Yet now, if some lunatic carries a bomb on a bicycle, the bicycle becomes a terrorist
In what could only be the result of sinister conspiracy, Singapore’s PM suggested that Narendra Modi has made things worse in ‘new India’
What irony that those who appropriated a natural biological fact to argue for faith in denying entry to women into the Sabarimala shrine should be unable to support young Muslim women for whom wearing the head scarf is equally an article of faith
Then there are times when the will to abandon course overwhelms the thin stream of reason
What clearly emerges from his resounding caution is that no centre can ever hope to subjugate large swathes of India
More truth may come from them than is now on offer from the living icons of “new India”.
Abide with me, Bapu, For when hate is ascendant, I need you
Every word Khan chose for his reporting bespoke the fineness and subtlety of his learning, and his deep concern for the preservation of India’s diverse values
Modi’s remark on farmers who died during protests clearly seems to indicate that he conflates his persona with the majesty of the state, in a throwback to Louis XIV