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India must be the only republic where an 80% majority is constantly persuaded that it has everything to fear from a beleaguered 14% minority.…
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.
As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long…
In the words of the English romantic poet who died a young man full of dreams, namely Shelley, the INDIA alliance rally…
Modi speaking of a third term seems both democratically unlovely and rather ominous, given the shameless transgression in Chandigarh. The Trump-India…
These are the days of bold political reclamation. Three principal axes of India’s mainstream politics seek centre-stage at perhaps the most fraught…
History, we have been instructed, is now the story of warfare, now of the struggle for existence, now of the evolution of…
Gaza 2023 By Badri Raina With the strewn blood and bones Of thousands born but yesteryear …
Five odd months before elections to the Lok Sabha are due, the Congress party has lost three assembly elections in the Hindi…
It is a mournful time in Bharat. Our trusted partner in the Quad has stabbed us in the bat and in the…
Desperate times invite desperate remedies. Narendra Modi has quickly comprehended the moment. As of old, the Sanatan agenda of forging “Hindu unity” seems suddenly…