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Znet Article Raina: Coronation by Divination, History by Hearsay

Znet Article, June, 29 2007 Badri Raina
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In my last offering ("India Steals a March," ZNet, June 19,2007) I expressed my delight at the prospect that the next President of the Indian Republic was likely to be a woman. That, even as I qualified the delight by stating "I must confess I ha...

Znet Article Raina: India Steals a March

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph Here is what we say:recognize the altered night and day;men and women must together findan honest will to put behinda habitually distorted humankind. (Badri Raina, Our Share of the World, Museindia.com) Since all evaluations nowadays o...

Znet Article Raina: The Turnaround in Uttar Pradesh

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph By the pricking of my thumbs,Something pregnant this way comes. (with apologies to the bard for the plagiarism). Why does the feeling persist, certainly with this hack, that notwithstanding some astute and trustworthy analyses of the e...

Znet Article Deshpande: West Bengal

Znet Article, June, 01 2007 Sudhanva Deshpande
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Isn't our life a tunnelbetween two clarities? Pablo Neruda, Libros de las preguntas, 1974. In August 2006, Mamata Banerjee traveled to Singur, home to around 20,000 people in the state of West Bengal. Banerjee, who was once an activis...

Znet Article Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu

Znet Article, May, 22 2007 Vijay Prashad
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Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...

Znet Article Raina: Mullah Modi

Znet Article, May, 14 2007 Badri Raina
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If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...

Znet Article Raina: 2007

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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"The question of the relationship of political emancipation to religion becomes. . .the question of of the relationship of political emancipation to human emancipation." -Marx It has taken a long time in happening, but at long last modern India...

Znet Article Chomsky: In Rare Joint Interview, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History

Znet Article, April, 17 2007 Noam Chomsky
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Today an hour with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky in a rare interview with them together, and I welcome you both to Democracy Now!

Znet Article Raina: Nandigram and the Left

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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However much the  CPI(M),  including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue. Things have now come to a pass when as we...

Znet Article Raina: Parvenu Nationalism

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world” tend to become “national allegories.” And I also recall   some noted Indian intellectuals taking umb...

Znet Article Raina: End of the Tight-Rope Walk

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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So uncle Sam has spoken.  Musharraf is a good man after all, and the best bet for “democracy” in Pakistan.  This  only days after the U.S. Senate decreed that all future aid to  that country be tied to the General delivering in the...

Znet Article Chomsky: War, Neoliberalism and Empire in the 21st Century

Znet Article, March, 14 2007 Noam Chomsky
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It's not very clear. What you said is correct. The law was not even seen by the Iraqi Parliament until it was finished, so it's an inside job. Exactly what this entails is still kind of open. It allows for Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) whic...

Znet Article Raina: Hanging the Corrupt by the Lampost

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Badri Raina
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On the 6th of March, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, hearing a fodder-scam related case, permitted itself a rather unusual but highly instructive majesterial “observation.”  Be it recalled that the fodder scam refe...

Znet Article Johnson: Chalmers Johnson: "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic"

Znet Article, March, 07 2007 Chalmers Johnson
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AMY GOODMAN: Today, we spend the hour with the former CIA consultant, distinguished scholar, best-selling author, Chalmers Johnson. He's just published a new book. It's called Nemesis: The Last...

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir Calling

Znet Article, February, 09 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph Did you kill this man?I did;Did you know he was not a militant?I did;Then why did you do so?For reward;Do you know you committed a crime?But, sir, he  was only a Kashmiri. Even as utterly bigoted and power-drunk rogues amo...

Znet Article Raina: The Meaning of Modi

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run it on the 5th anniversary of the massacres.] After the true purposes of the Nazi party began to reveal themselves in H...

Znet Article Raina: Is Independence a Viable Option for Jammu & Kashmir?

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Badri Raina
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On January 16, 2007, the Academy of Third World Studies at Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi organized an interactive meet to deliberate on the “Kashmir Problem.”  Some well-informed and well-regarded “Kashmir hands...

Znet Article Mondragon: Democracy and Plan Colombia

Znet Article, January, 14 2007 Hector Mondragon
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President George W. Bush has asked the American people to "be patient" so that Iraq can become like Colombia—so that the Iraqis can defeat terrorism and establish a stable democracy like the one Washington has nurtured in Colombia. I would...

Znet Article Raina: The Saddam Murder

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Finally the democratic deed is done.  The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice. They may have “handed” him over to the Quisling regime, but, forestalling all potential risk, hung him wit...

Znet Article Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk.  The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...

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