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I Following the severe attrition in the numbers of Left candidates elected to India’s new parliament, a smug doyen of the Foundation…
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.
I The Kangaroos have been behaving badly. Hopping mad, you might say. This time not on the cricket field, but on the…
Do I contradict myself? What if I do; I contain multitudes. . . (Walt Whitman, Song of Myself) I Were India to…
"Without religion, you would have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do…
I India’s oldest political formation, the Indian National Congress, dates back formally to 1885, a fact that the gauche Narendra Modi has…
I Now suppose that the post-Independence Indian State had been constituted as Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha, Golwalker and the RSS had…
I One million Indian lives were consumed by the famine of 1771 in the Purnea district of the then undivided Bengal Province.…
THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA Preamble "WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR REPUBLIC…
I Gandhi’s spectacles did go under the hammer in New York-for money. And money bought them back for India. The Mahatma (great…
"No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law" (Article 21, Constitution of…