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    All Spun From a Human Yarn

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    God is an idea abstracted from

    The best of human qualities;

    And the Market likewise exemplifies

    The worst of our propensities.

    Between the two is Religion

    Which brokers our best and worst

    By keeping both in good humour

    From baptism to the hearse.

    War is the enterprise

    That proves our loyalty

    To Nation, Market, Religion—

    Enriching Trinity.

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    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.

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