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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.
Although launched from a dominantly Muslim base, the Owaisi-led AIMIM sees itself as a new political force that seeks to speak not just for Muslims but a conglomerate of India’s marginalised sections.
If a level playing field is not allowed and candidates of the Gupkar Alliance are suppressed, the exercise will have scant value
Nothing would raise the stock of the BJP as much as to vanquish the Alliance in a freely conducted, constitutionally sanctioned democratic exercise
Equality before the law Is a fine idea, But propagated unequally By an unequal media
Would Prophet Mohammed have approved of the beheading of a journalist for the preservation of his honor?
There will be better times we know, But what a human price we pay For the sway of the hate-mongers, And the cruelties of the day
The District Development Council elections results will carry a telling political message to all those who have either vociferously supported the Centre’s life-changing moves in Jammu and Kashmir or argued against their people-disregarding high-handedness
Then comes a time when stratagems of hope Just do not succeed; When life inscribes a twisted book Impossible to read. …
If the Big Landed Estate Abolition Act of 1950 became the concrete ground of the Jammu-based opposition to Sheikh Abdullah, the Centre’s new policy may unite groups in all the regions