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The season turns again. The year ends. Some are born into An unknown world, Others round the bends Whose cul-de-sacs close The roads to regrets and amends.
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.
If god favours the democrats, I will the Church of Trump set up; In that church a Eucharist new A new campaign will develop
What is a democracy in which roads and public spaces come to be given precedence over the common humanity who build them and put them to use?
Here I am, unchastened knight, A sight for you to see; Covid has come to acknowledge Trump is more dangerous than he.…
The protests against Hathras brutality and anti-farmer agriculture laws passed by the Centre have been similar to the kind of resistance that had been built against CAA and NRC. But questions remain if this public resistance can be sustained
Woman, you have acquired a mind Of your own, Spelling disaster for a civilized World. You think, you read, you argue, you…
The chief is stricken, O woe betide The so disrupted realm When afflictions thus descend On the chieftan at the helm. …
A new jurisprudence is called for – one that wisely, in consonance with our ancient wisdoms, lays down how some Indians are always guilty, and some never
Is it nice to criticize Trump for avoiding taxes? Or, for a bill of seventy thousand dollars To fix his hair in…
Although India is still saddled with a parliament, a colonial bugbear, the last six years or so have seen a gradual, but now more rapid, informal switch over to a desired and desirable presidential form.