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Those who make objections to such private choices should come clean and acknowledge that their pleas are political rather than religious, or that religion is suffused with politics – however we deny that premise
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.
When time and place be out of sorts, Go make your time and place
The PM had once said that the constitution is our ‘holy book’. Here’s a look at sins he should be worried about, much more than those in the Old Testament
India’s organized political formations must choose between meeting the ruling onslaught on its own anti-intellectual turf or striving to forge a politics that appeals to a dormant awareness enslaved by the fake charm of the cult
Elders long since dead and gone Beckon from a glen in the heart; I think they will be there in love As my hour comes to depart
The Mehta case renews that old debate whether outstandingly truthful intellectuals ever seek to be part of institutions whose commitment, however trumpeted, to the freedom of thought remains questionable
‘Deshbhakti’ can only be an impoverished and unethical construct unless our school going girls and boys also learn of the conditions of denial, deprivation and inequality
Give me back, now past eightieth year Of my life, a day of that Spring In the Xanadu of my beginning
In what way does the alliance with the ISF in West Bengal threaten the secular future of India, so long as that party remains aligned with the Congress and the Left, and so long as its allegiance to the constitution remains its political bedrock?
What better abode to rest in finally Than the memories of friends?