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The CBSE’s syllabus diktat seems to announce a clampdown on learning that may raise questions of macro-historical distress and discrimination that continue to plague the republic
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.
Remember when we understood ‘sentiment’ As a human construct? Now, ‘sentiment’ defines the mood-swings Of the stock and share market. When…
Poor fig is just a lowly fruit, But fig leaves earn reward; They hid our shame in Paradise, And now they hide…
If God is Light, as the good book says, And Satan the Prince of Darkness be, Then is the seed of racism…
Bolsonaro has declared “God is Brazillian,” When here we thought God to be Hindu-Sanatan. Does God speak in the Hebrew tongue,…
I come to propitiate the monuments Installed by the confederates here. I come to refurbish the memory Of the Black Wall Street…
Some Fundamental Differences Between the genius of the “Oldest” and “Largest” Democracies
Sanity is a thing apart From a sanitizing chore; Sanity asks an equal world, And an open door. Sanity celebrates the…
The goal of furthering an illusory politics in the state is sought to be realised in two ways: by floating a congenial group at the top and encouraging a stir among panchayats
Where patriotism denotes love of our country and clime, nationalism denotes a politics of dominace, built on myths and legends that have no discernible or objective reference to who we are and how we subsist in our daily lives