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Epigraph(s) History is a moral necessity for a nation which is the world’s dominant power. It is the best antidote to delusions…
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.
In my last offering (“India Steals a March,” ZNet, June 19,2007) I expressed my delight at the prospect that the next President…
Epigraph Here is what we say:recognize the altered night and day;men and women must together findan honest will to put behinda habitually…
Epigraph By the pricking of my thumbs,Something pregnant this way comes. (with apologies to the bard for the plagiarism). Why does the…
If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a…
“The question of the relationship of political emancipation to religion becomes. . .the question of of the relationship of political emancipation to…
In a recent Znet article, Nirmalangshuâ€â€
However much the CPI(M), including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on…
I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world†tend to become “national allegories. 
So uncle Sam has spoken. Musharraf is a good man after all, and the best bet for “democracy†in Pakistan. This only…