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We can see how, in many parts of the world, conversation itself has come to be regarded as conspiracy
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.
The prime minister’s tearful avowal of Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nobility inspires further debate on his outlook towards Muslims, protesters and ‘foreign destructive ideology’
Let death come when it will While I am still busy serving life
We are the shining city Atop the Himalayas; The farmer who now is misled Will surely vote for us
The heart seeks a resting place In the hollow of a tree, Atop a boulder in a singing stream Where only the sun can see
The farmers are back, Like the soil that takes all beatings
The farmers’ movement, of the people, by the people, and for the people, may also have a few lessons in political wisdom for floundering opposition parties
When women fly planes and go up in space shuttles our hearts swell with pride, but when they lead protests and question, we deny them agency and express solicitude
The new contemporary term for what Europe experienced a century ago holds sway over a significant population in the US, but also in many countries around the world
What struggle is harder than The keeping up of hope