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I. The Indo-US nuclear energy deal may or may not happen. The contested debate that surrounds it has, nonetheless, brought to the…
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 recall a young member of the family who would snatch an Agatha Christie as someone was reading it, sift quickly to…
The German philosopher, Kant, gave to the world two highly consequential orders of epistemology. In a throwback to Plato, he stipulated that…
Say: ‘Unbelievers, I do not serve what you worship,nor do you serve what I worship. I shall never servewhat you worship, nor…
The New Indian Middle Class will surely take us far; from hauteur, humbug, heartlessness to bloody civil war. (Badri Raina, Hippopotamus, Modest Proposal & Other…
As I ponder India 2007, I am struck how truly free a country she is. You may just do as you please—multiply…
Baske dushwaar hai har kaam ka aasan hona,Aadmi ko bhi mayassar nahi insaan hona. Mirza Ghalib How hard, how impossible To do the…
This story has been told before, but can never be told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva…
There is no such thing as a value neutral educational process. (Richard Shaull, Foreword to Pedagogy of the Oppressed) After the initial…
Even as “Potter Mania” overtakes India, the American Senate has been overtaken by Hindu-Vedic mantras. Fascinating conjuncture. Fascinating because the conjuncture invites…