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Strive, strive to keep your sanity Against the heartless sinews of the day. Strive, strive to bring back the bird Of freedom…
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 and when an argument wins During days of assurance, Consider the circumstance A miracle beyond recompense. An argument in cocksure…
The constitution of India is there, like many other artifacts in the archives, but, like the human appendix, it may now be vestigial
Hope has most meaning when Despair sees hope depart. Elixir needs for storing A hollow in the heart. Despair is a…
Just when all is said and done, The telling begins again. Infinity is deep inscribed In the human heart and brain. …
Seventy years into our republican existence, this act rather rubbishes the political-Hindutva assertion that a cohesive culture inspires India’s national identity
It is tragic that an abiding fact that the soil of the country is inextricably made up of Semitic Indians amounts to so little in the minds of those who blare their proprietorship of India as a civilisation
Dear Winston, Your cigar never left Your mouth, So you lived on Past ninety. In fact, it is much in doubt Whether…
John Lewis, you looked trouble In the eye, and from its womb Forged good trouble. From the march on Washington Till sixty…
When the Covid pestilence shall pass, Like Nature’s instructive visitation, I shall to the brim fill my glass, And celebrate the humbling…