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By all accounts, the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections threatens to be no-holds-barred
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.
These days, it does not rain But it pours; The waters drown the steeples, Not to speak of the doors
That the historic Muzaffarnagar mahapanchayat was not just a farmer-related one any more was apparent from the diversity of attendance it drew and from the content of the speeches made at the happening
They Do Not Invest in Jammu and Kashmir
The Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel has cautioned that if Hindus were to be reduced to a minority, or if India’s Muslim population were just to increase, democracy in India would disappear
Rise as amazons of the mind, And set yourselves free From their jejune claims to lordship. Get battle-ready, and shoot from the hip
That support for Narendra Modi as the best choice for the next prime minister has plummeted is a telling affirmation of the people’s alertness to the objective status of the Union and of their stakes within it
Are We to Remember or Transcend the Past?
It is also apparent that a concerted and barely concealed plan seems afoot to demand that Muslims be kept segregated from the ‘true Indians’, namely, Hindu Indians
In the middle of this, democracy performs at break-neck speed