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Roy: 9 Is Not 11 (And November Isn't September)
Znet Article, December, 14 2008
Arundhati Roy
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The Mumbai attacks have been dubbed 'India's 9/11', and there are calls for a 9/11-style response, including an attack on Pakistan. Instead, the country must fight terrorism with justice, or face civil war.
Hoodbhoy: The Mumbai Massacre And Pakistan's New Nightmares
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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In spite of vociferous demands by the Indian public, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has withstood the pressure to conduct cross-border strikes into Pakistan. Correspondingly, in spite of the bitter criticism by Islamic parties, Pakista...
Raina: India's Long But Sure Revolution
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Badri Raina
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Remarkably, where vested segments among Hindu organizations have sought to move the majority community towards undemocratic closures, it is the beleaguered Muslim counterparts that have been showing the way to greater democratic consolidations.
Bhushan: Lessons from the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Prashant Bhushan
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It is only when the attacks were directed at five-star hotels that our elite citizenry, and the media controlled by them, comes out on the streets to rail against the politicians and the security establishment.
Raina: Enough is Enough
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Badri Raina
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was the result of a laudable anti-colonial impulse, sinc...
Ali: India's Leaders Need to Look Closer to Home
Znet Article, November, 28 2008
Tariq Ali
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The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that ...
Raina: The Quest for Purity
Znet Article, November, 24 2008
Badri Raina
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These are confused times for India’s political Hinduism.
Raina: Hindu Terrorism
Znet Article, November, 16 2008
Badri Raina
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So, now, India is home to �Hindu� terrorism...
Raina: Notions of the Nation
Znet Article, November, 03 2008
Badri Raina
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Within hours, literally, the world will know whether the nation-state in America as decreed by the American Constitution has or has not triumphed finally over the competing, even if subterranean, notion of the nation as race.
Raina: Simplicities
Znet Article, October, 23 2008
Badri Raina
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What lovely times those must have been when a rose was a rose by any name?
Roy: Brave New India
Znet Article, October, 11 2008
Arundhati Roy
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The myth about the U.S. being a beacon of liberty has been more or less discredited amongst people who are even vaguely informed. India, on the other hand, has managed to pull off almost a miraculous public relations coup.
Raina: India’s Failed Secularism
Znet Article, October, 07 2008
Badri Raina
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Likewise, how fortuitous for India’s beleaguered Christians that the good Prime Minister had to suffer “embarrassment” while traveling Christian lands recently. Think that in France, the spunky Sarkozy called the Kandhamal mayhem a “massacre” to ...
Raina: Sweet Time For the Left in India
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Badri Raina
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As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists, and stoops to nationalizing—yes, nationalizing-- the great and invincible bulwarks of American Capitalism, it underscores a theory of state that says ...
Raina: Fighting Terror the Terrorist Way
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
Badri Raina
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By first causing monumental social upheavals in the pursuit of profit maximization, then recommending quick-fixes guaranteed to spawn still worse upheavals so that more profitable quick-fixes are in turn rendered “necessary.” And all these rooted ...
Chatterji: Orissa
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Angana Chatterji
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Following the murder of Orissa’s Hindu nationalist icon, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, together with four disciples, in Jalespatta in Kandhamal district on August 23, 2008, Gouri Prasad Rath, general secretary, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, VHP-Orissa, ralli...
Prashad: The Indian Left And The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Vijay Prashad
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In the 2004 general election, the Indian electorate denied the intransigent right-wing power over the State. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance lost out to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, although the l...
Chatterji: Orissa
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Angana Chatterji
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HINDUTVA'S PRODUCTION of culture and nation is often marked by savagery. On 23 August 2008, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, Orissa's Hindu nationalist icon, was murdered with four disciples in Jalespeta in Kandhamal district. State authorities alleged t...
Raina: Conversions
Znet Article, September, 06 2008
Badri Raina
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Take any of India’s political parties—excluding the ossified Left which remains unprofitably wedded to principle, although the principle may change from circumstance to circumstance—and you will find that its elected legislators may, whenever the ...
Raina: The US Presidential Elections
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
Badri Raina
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First the question: does it matter much whether America elects a Republican or a Democrat as its President? May be not to the rest of the world, but to American citizens it does.
Roy: Land And Freedom
Znet Article, August, 23 2008
Arundhati Roy
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For the past 60 days or so, since about the end of June, the people of Kashmir have been free. Free in the most profound sense. They have shrugged off the terror of living their lives in the gun-sights of half a million heavily armed soldiers, in ...
