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It is the best-known national secret that we have no dearth of loose-talking wisecrackers. Consider the whispers that Narendra Modi, our prime…
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.
It is often the case in human life that those to whom we owe the most we also hurt the most, as…
As intimations of mortality ring in my ears, I dedicate this, my 200th column on The Wire to the prospects of a Republic in which:…
Do you believe that a Jawaharlal Nehru or a Sardar Patel would have been busy holding roadshows for an assembly election in…
I must confess to having felt diminished as an Indian at the sight of my prime minister wailing at a public rally…
When you recall the demonstrative alacrity with which Narendra Modi greets those who return from abroad with international laurels, you would have…
First, the most recent one. The facilitated killing of the ex-MLA, Atiq Ahmed, and his brother, Ashraf on a Prayagraj street under “police…
Democracy seems now to be pushing back against autocracies in unlikely places. In the country most beloved of India’s fast-forward classes who…
In 2015, on foreign soil, Narendra Modi was pleased to say that Indians were “ashamed” of being Indians before he took over…
It is a sign of the times that a recent watershed judgment of the Supreme Court – one that, in my view,…