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Long before the assembly elections were finally held in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, this columnist had anticipated that 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.
The crude fact, of course, is that however these contested terms may be enshrined in the Preamble of the constitution, the last…
You just may have noticed that a new ingenious modality of mass murder has been in operation in Gaza. Call it game-hunting, safari style.…
Imagine that the one country which India regards as the epicentre of terrorism, namely, Pakistan, should be having it so good even…
Now, at last, we know why 26 innocent men, mostly tourists, died at the hands of terrorists in Pahalgam: it was not…
Why is it that to this minute there is no statement from the Indian prime minister contradicting the litany of perverse Trump…
Himanshi and Vinay Narwal were married a week before the young naval officer was murdered by Islamist terrorists at a meadow near…
The denominational terrorist killings in Pahalgam, instigated by Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir’s invocation of the pernicious two-nation theory have had a salutary consequence…
The dastardly targeted killings of Hindu tourists in Pahalgam in pursuance of the “two-nation theory” as recently recalled by the Pakistan army chief Asim…
You may recall that in the iconic play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, it is revealed to the young prince that…