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Raina: Communalism Bad, Development Good

Znet Article, April, 13 2011 Badri Raina
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A voice has been raised in India against the venal misdeeds of politicians and, mutedly, of bureaucrats (no mention of the corporates here).

Raina: The Intimate Zone

Znet Article, April, 04 2011 Badri Raina
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Ask any ordinary Indian citizen whether the bulk of their elected representatives or members of the administrative tribe ever really can be trusted to square with them on any issue at hand—from the burst water pipeline, to the price of foo...

Chomsky: Egypt, Tunisia, Mideast, India, and Class...

Znet Article, March, 29 2011 Noam Chomsky
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The source of the crisis in the Arab world goes back very far and it’s similar to what we find in the formerly colonized world...

Raina: Uncle Sam and the Indian Left on the Same Page

Znet Article, March, 27 2011 Badri Raina
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I must confess to be rather serenly unsurprised by the Wikileaks pertaining to India.

Sharma: Whither India’s Farmers Movement?

Commentary, March, 23 2011 Devinder Sharma
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I still can’t understand. Mohammed Bouazizi, a 24-year-old vegetable seller in Tunisia, sets himself on fire...

Mishra: State of Indian Economy

Znet Article, March, 07 2011 Girish Mishra
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In accordance with the established tradition, Government of India has come out with its annual review of the economy, entitled Economic Survey 2010-11. Even a cursory glance at it reveals that it is different from preceding surveys.

Sharma: Caught In The Food Pirates’ Trap

Commentary, March, 02 2011 Devinder Sharma
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Egypt paid the price, so will we if we ignore the Mahatma’s prescription: production by the masses, not for the masses.

Sagar: The Pharaohs of India

Znet Article, February, 24 2011 Satya Sagar
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When will the Indian public rise up by the millions against its corrupt rulers a la Egypt or Tunisia?

Raina: Thus Conscience Can Make Good Indians of Us All

Znet Article, February, 24 2011 Badri Raina
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I was asked the other day what kinds of people I thought to be the greatest danger to the “idea of India.” Yet my simple point was that the answer to the question must depend greatly on how one is placed within the nation-state.

Raina: Modi vs the Constitution

Znet Article, February, 09 2011 Badri Raina
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The Special Investigation Team entrusted by the Supreme Court of India to enquire into the culpabilities with respect especially to the gruesome killings at the Gulbarg Society has now submitted its report to the honourable Court.

Sainath: Heading for the Cliffs of Singh's India

Znet Article, February, 01 2011 P. Sainath
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One of the most enduring of media-created myths is that of mass suicide amongst lemmings, the little rodents that live mostly in and around the Arctic.

Raina: Pigeonholing Gandhi

Znet Article, January, 31 2011 Badri Raina
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Like most non-specialist browsers, I have read not more than that “good bit” of Gandhi and not more than some twenty or so book-length studies of him.

Sagar: Free Dr Binayak Sen, Free Us All!

Znet Article, January, 27 2011 Satya Sagar
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There is a spectre haunting the Indian security establishment. A spectre called the national and global campaign for Dr Binayak Sen’s release.

Mishra: India and the Washington Consensus

Znet Article, January, 27 2011 Girish Mishra
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Ever since 1967, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture has been organized almost every year in the month of November at Teen Murti House by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund.

Raina: Isn't dissent the essence of democracy?

Znet Article, January, 18 2011 Badri Raina
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A charge of sedition has been brought up against Arundhati Roy following some statements she made at a meeting in Delhi supporting the demand for Kashmiri “azadi” (variously interpretable, secession from the Union being one).