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I Without going into the question why some artists/painters are designated greater or more important than others, or why a vase made…
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 Over the last month or so, India’s most influential Islamic seminaries—Deoband, Bareilly, Lucknow, Hyderabad—have been holding well-attended public meetings/conferences with a…
". . .the party congress held recently at Coimbatore had decided that the CPI(M) should directly take up social issues." (Prakash Karat as reported…
I Turn on any of India’s up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or…
It has been one of the criticisms of the Left Front government in West Bengal that at one point during the Nandigram…
I Ever since the Hindutva right-wing, led by the top leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), demolished the Babri mosque…
There comes a tide in the life of nations, Which, if taken at the crest, Leads to fortune. (Shakespeare mangled) Remember those…
Those that are learned in the modern theories of language have taught us how treacherous words can be. For a start, there…
There was that time when Hegel pronounced that India had “no history”; it “is a repeat of the same old majestic ruin,”…
India’s misbegotten ‘modernity’ has won another fascist round in Gujarat. Unlike the mellow inclusivity of Nehruvian enlightenment that strenuously refused the bastardization…