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While the apex court on January 6 will take up pleas for anti-conversion laws, two views of citizen’s rights will be in direct contention – one propagated by the right-wing and the other enshrined in the constitution
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.
How is it that ‘reform’ only means throwing the food-grower open to the cut-throat vagaries of a so-called ‘free-market’ always in the clutches of the corporate?
The year is ending, But time carries on. As do madness and cupidity
The core of Kashmir’s secular politics remains in place, and Kashmiriyat has yet again triumphed over sectarian majoritarianism
There is bitter cold At the borders of the city Of indifference
All protesters are being branded ‘Maoists’, and those who dare to love beyond the boundaries of their faith ‘jihadists’
Where mobs flail to a tune set into motion by some dog-whistle, refuse reasoned debate, take recourse to abuse, vilification, threat, and finally, the strong arm, democratic mass actions bank on the power of knowledge
Poems are often cussed things, So they do not sell. What market affords a bankruptcy With poems that truths may tell. …
The time has come when the theatrics of artful dissembling comes to be seen for what it is – theatrics unconnected to reality
Up against a regime that seeks votes but disregards the voter, farmers have come prepared for the long haul to protect their interests.