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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.
Epigraph: "what matters today is to preserve and disseminate freedom rather than to accelerate. . .the advance towards the administered world" (Adorno…
Lay not thy treasure upon the earth, For thieves shall come and steal it; Lay thy treasure in heaven. . . Etc.,(Gospel)…
I The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in…
[email protected] Epigraph: Hear the voice of the Bard, Who past, present, future sees. (William Blake) I When you think of…
I Few things about contemporary India have been as consequential as the excruciating churning among Indian Muslims. Consequential, as I suggested in…
Epigraph: The Light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of…
Epigraph: I am not a fascist only when I decimate all other kind; I am a fascist when first I think It…
Epigraph: "underlying these religions were a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire…
I Within hours, literally, the world will know whether the nation-state in America as decreed by the American Constitution has or has…