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Good times are coming boys, good times are coming. The discarded assembly complex in Srinagar is being spruced up. Elections are round the…
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.
Here are some straightforward reasons why the Indian establishment of the day liked the Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh. For the most…
A police order in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar requires food shops and vendors to display the names of their owners and workers. During…
I may be excused to say with Hamlet, “bless my prophetic soul”. In more than one article, I have sought to caution…
As I write, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is on his way again to the orphaned state…
India’s famed demographic dividend is currently up and down the forlorn street. The so-erudite prime minister often tells them how to take…
What a healthful comeuppance. As if lending an ear to sentiments expressed in a previous column, the constitutional proprietors of Indian democracy, namely,…
Let us pray that ‘we the people” have not voted for a brute majority to any party, followed by a ‘strong’ leader…
Had Indira Gandhi been alive today, she would have learnt how to run an Emergency without declaring it. That she invoked, injuriously,…
Passing references apart, the most worrying feature of the current election campaign has been the lack of popular or systemic outrage against…