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Democracy seems now to be pushing back against autocracies in unlikely places. In the country most beloved of India’s fast-forward classes who…
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 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,…
For some four years now, deposed and unwanted political forces have been spreading the canard that Jammu and Kashmir has been robbed of its…
Riled by questions asked in parliament, the PM was heard to proclaim that he is shielded by the trust of a 140…
Hindutva ideologues know well enough that there is no proletarian revolution in the offing. They also know that the poorest Indians…
This year on January 30 will be exactly 75 years to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination at the hands of those against his message…
The Union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has added a new ominous dimension to the on-going debate about how judges should be appointed.…
Come to think of it, the formulation proffered by Rahul Gandhi about puja and tapasya is neither facetious nor simple-minded. It encapsulates a rather profoundly instructive truth…
Although the two engines travel in opposite directions, they work to the same ideological purpose: one is driven to amass private wealth…