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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.
Raina: Isn't dissent the essence of democracy?
Znet Article, January, 18 2011
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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).
Roy: The trial of Binayak Sen
Znet Article, December, 30 2010
Arundhati Roy
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I was not expecting the judgment to be fair but I was taken aback at the extent of the unfairness.
Raina: Corruption Makes Neo-Liberalism Go
Znet Article, December, 20 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
India never had so much lucre going around, so big a class of people with lolling tongues and copious pockets, and so little prohibition to illicit money-making on behalf of the neo-liberal State and its institutions.
Roy: Justice Links Our Struggles Together
Znet Article, December, 06 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
The transcription of Arundhati Roys' speech on Kashmire.
Roy: Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy on Obama’s Wars, Poverty and India’s Maoist Rebels
Znet Article, November, 09 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
Maoist rebels in India called for a strike Monday to protest President Obama’s visit.
Roy: Tehelka Interview
Znet Article, October, 30 2010
Arundhati Roy
Roy's ZSpace page
As a section of the political class and the media bays for her blood, author Arundhati Roy explains why her opinions do not amount to sedition.
Raina: Eminences of the Bench
Znet Article, October, 26 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
There is that vignette in Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch where the protagonist looks idly out of the window at the bay below and seems to see an array of ships lined there, not all the same but their make and model spanning the centuries gone...
Chomsky: “Media Subdues The Public. It’s So In India, Certainly”
Znet Article, October, 24 2010
Noam Chomsky
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On the 15th anniversary of Outlook, Ajaz Ashraf and Anuradha Raman talked to Chomsky about the crisis plaguing the media.
Raina: An Open Letter to Ten Percent India, Myself Included
Znet Article, October, 21 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Games are over. Our revels have ended for now. Many white people have gone satisfied; some even impressed.
Tripathi: India's High-Stakes Foreign Policy
Znet Article, October, 12 2010
Deepak Tripathi
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Analysis of President Obama's forthcoming India visit in November 2010 and the evolution of Indian foreign policy over the last sixty years.
Raina: The Ayodhya Verdict
Znet Article, October, 04 2010
Badri Raina
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I agree with most that the honourable court seems to have with deliberation chosen to operate rather more like a problem-solver than a legal/juridical entity.
Sarwar: Stop War, Play Tennis
Znet Article, September, 30 2010
Beena Sarwar
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Who would have predicted that an Indian and a Pakistani would team up for tennis doubles.
Raina: We abuse Ram when we spill blood in his name
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
One of my most soothing childhood memories is of my mother reading aloud the Ram Katha (the story of the ancient, mythical or not, King of Ayodhya).
Raina: What a piece of work is man
Znet Article, September, 13 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Indian state displays its faculties of innovation and spending in the works it gets made at less than minimum wage, and, on the other side, plays the beast to man, woman, and child who have, alas, not inherited the pedigree of Renaissance Hum...
Raina: Kashmir Now Or Never
Znet Article, August, 13 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
If the prospect, that is, of the secession of the valley—since other parts of the state of Jammu & Kashmir desire, contrarily, not secession but more complete integration with the Union of India-- were not fraught with incalculable negative conse...
Raina: The Nation at Stake
Znet Article, August, 01 2010
Badri Raina
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As the skeletons tumble in droves out of the house of horrors in Gujarat, right-wing Hindutva forces which now openly include the “main opposition Party” in parliament, the BJP, is up in arms at what it suits them to call a Congress-inspir...
Ali: Not Crushed, Merely Ignored
Znet Article, July, 23 2010
Tariq Ali
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Tariq Ali on the recent killings in Kashmir...
Qureshi: The Kashmiri Intifada
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Yasmin Qureshi
Qureshi's ZSpace page
The images bring back memories of the first intifada (uprising) in Palestine in the late 1980s: Young protesters in jeans and bandanas hurling rocks at Indian troops, people blocking roads with burning tires to stop the Indian police, banners re...
Raina: GDP vs GDP
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
India’s GDP is set to grow at 9.4%, sayeth the oracle of the World Bank.
