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So uncle Sam has spoken. Musharraf is a good man after all, and the best bet for “democracy†in Pakistan. This only…
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.
On the 6th of March, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, hearing a fodder-scam related case, permitted itself a…
Epigraph Did you kill this man?I did;Did you know he was not a militant?I did;Then why did you do so?For reward;Do you…
[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run…
On January 16, 2007, the Academy of Third World Studies at Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi organized an interactive meet to…
Finally the democratic deed is done. The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice.…
India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime…
I have before me a national English Daily which is much given to spreading the word about the beauties of “reform†and…
When Jack Straw the other day encountered a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the last straw…
In recent weeks, the Indian public mind (often cutely managed by a savvy media world), has been much drawn towards two happenings.…