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I This a short and quick one. As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists,…
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 Who doesn’t know how the Capitalist social order has worked from day one?— By first causing monumental social upheavals in the…
I Now, as Miss Austen would have said, it is a truth universally acknowledged that India is the world’s largest democracy. What,…
I First the question: does it matter much whether America elects a Republican or a Democrat as its President? May be not…
"Saddam Hussain, of course, deserved to be hanged for destroying several Shia villages, whereas Georgian leaders…
I may not be accused of ever having written a good word about L.K.Advani, the leader and now projected prime ministerial candidate…
I Ah, the travails of high office. The cruelest thing being that, once elected, Presidents and Prime Ministers should be expected to…
When, after the massacre of Muslims in 2002, the electorate in Gujarat voted the butcher of Gandhinagar—the Capital city of Gujarat; but…
May 31, 2008 must rank as a very consequential day in modern Indian history. Indeed, it might be said, in modern Muslim…
I Without going into the question why some artists/painters are designated greater or more important than others, or why a vase made…