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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.
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…
So the unimpeded bloodbath continues apace. According to latest reports from several news agencies, more than 700 Gazan civilians were killed on…
Lord Ganesh – the deity in the pandal where the wretched hungry man was clubbed to death for allegedly stealing prasad –…
Commenting felicitously on what he has called India’s “age of ambition” scholar and commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta has characterised “infrastructural nationalism” as…
While ideologues down South, whose position with respect to the social content of Sanatan Dharma is ancient knowledge, are currently being lambasted…
When the late Edward Said’s pathbreaking book, Orientalism, came out in 1976 (coinciding with the conclusion of my doctoral work in America), the…