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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.
Come to think of it, the formulation proffered by Rahul Gandhi about puja and tapasya is neither facetious nor simple-minded. It encapsulates a rather profoundly instructive truth…
Although the two engines travel in opposite directions, they work to the same ideological purpose: one is driven to amass private wealth…
Time was when the Will was fallen But the Wit was erect. Then Satan sent Capital To rectify that defect.…
It is clear why India’s top advocates of Hindi are so conspicuously running shy of acknowledging a novel in Hindi winning the International Booker
Not just Islamic monuments, but many Hindu structures too were built by destroying earlier structures
O citizen, un-besotted by zeal, Un-fathered by the state, Between the heat wave And the hate wave Take your pick;…
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