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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of…
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.
Experience teaches us that often those sections of society who profit the most from historical change are the first to lament when…
Although the custodians of ‘ruling ideas’ seek always to lend ‘universal’ weight to concepts that suit them, it remains a truism of…
In an earlier piece in the same space (“India and Nepalâ€, Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications…
Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI, King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal has finally been denuded of…