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In yet another peroration on the occasion of the centenary celebrations of the RSS, Shri Mohan Bhagwat, with characteristic balance and good…
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.
In the area of Humanist studies in sociology it is perhaps hard to find a more endearing concept than that of the…
It seems our Sanatan continues to ride a dual horse of convenience when it comes to caste identities: it speaks of caste…
Printu Mahadevan, a spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has been pleased to make it known to Rahul Gandhi that he “will be…
Umar Khalid and others have been in jail now for five long years, awaiting trial for having allegedly incited riots in the…
The following three snapshots illustrate how everyday political interactions in New India are steadily reshaping democracy along the twin axes of feudal…
Tucked away in a corner of page 7 of The Indian Express of September 10 is an all-important story. It carries news of an…
There are times in history when the invitation to engage in debate about a patently disingenuous gambit is a call to be…
Quite recently, the right-wing, led by the RSS, spoke for the umpteenth time in favour of erasing the word “Socialism” from the…
In 1974, at the end of a three-hour long talk given by me to a civil society gathering in Madison, Wisconsin, I…