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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 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…
When the Constitution of India granted the right of universal adult franchise to citizens, it did not, unlike the American system, require…
Long before the assembly elections were finally held in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, this columnist had anticipated that the…
The crude fact, of course, is that however these contested terms may be enshrined in the Preamble of the constitution, the last…
You just may have noticed that a new ingenious modality of mass murder has been in operation in Gaza. Call it game-hunting, safari style.…