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Raina: The Chieftain State of Gujarat
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Badri Raina
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When, after the massacre of Muslims in 2002, the electorate in Gujarat voted the butcher of Gandhinagar—the Capital city of Gujarat; but think of the enormous irony of that oxymoron—back to power, they effectively declared their secession from th...
Raina: Fatwa Against Terrorism
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Badri Raina
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May 31, 2008 must rank as a very consequential day in modern Indian history. Indeed, it might be said, in modern Muslim history as well. On that day, in a public gathering at Delhi’s historic Ramlila grounds, hundreds of thousands, mainly Muslims...
Raina: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Znet Article, May, 30 2008
Badri Raina
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Like a long line of painters through human history, Husain has often painted the nude. Painters we are told seek to penetrate beyond man-made encumbrances to celebrate how god made the world in the first place. Far, then, from being a lascivious...
Raina: The State, the Seminaries, and the People of India
Znet Article, May, 19 2008
Badri Raina
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Over the last month or so, India’s most influential Islamic seminaries—Deoband, Bareilly, Lucknow, Hyderabad—have been holding well-attended public meetings/conferences with a single-point agenda. Namely, to make it known that the so-called “...
Raina: Anti-Globalist Zeitgeist
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Badri Raina
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Clearly, the Left is not too well placed today either to return to the “Calcutta Thesis” of 1943 (armed struggle), nor to reap through appeals to class oppression alone the kind of electoral dividends that have accrued to the communists in Nepal. ...
Raina: Cricket as Surrogate Kill
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Badri Raina
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Turn on any of India’s up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or the Indian Premier League of 20x20 cricket.
Raina: Salwa Judum: The state as instigator of war between peoples
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Badri Raina
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For more than a year now the government in Chattisgarh, supported, it must be said, by some local Congress stalwarts, has quarantined some fifty thousand tribals in make-shift camps away from their homes, provided them arms of primitive make, and ...
Raina: Fascists Attack the Communist Party Office
Znet Article, March, 17 2008
Badri Raina
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Ever since the Hindutva right-wing, led by the top leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), demolished the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on Dec.,6,1992 in brazen defiance of the Constitution and the rule of Law, the question has been asked whether...
Roy: Taslima Nasrin & "Free Speech"
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Arundhati Roy
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I would like to caution us all against looking at this issue, in particular the issue of Taslima Nasrin, through the single lens of a battle between religious fundamentalism and secular liberalism. Taslima Nasrin herself sometimes contributes to t...
Chatterji: Kandhamal: Hindutva’s terror
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Angana Chatterji
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December 25, 2007: Seven churches, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, independent... burned in Barakhama village, in west Kandhamal/Phulbani district, central Orissa. December 23: Hindutva-affiliated Adivasi organisations organised a march, suppor...
Roy: Listening To Grasshoppers-Genocide, Denial And Celebration
Znet Article, January, 26 2008
Arundhati Roy
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I never met Hrant Dink, a misfortune that will be mine for time to come. From what I know of him, of what he wrote, what he said and did, how he lived his life, I know that had I been here in Istanbul a year ago I would have been among the one hun...
Raina: Essentialising Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Badri Raina
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An Indian view on Benazir Bhutto's murder
Chomsky: US/Indo Nuclear Agreement: Derailing A Deal
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Noam Chomsky
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Nuclear-armed states are criminal states. They have a legal obligation, confirmed by the World Court, to live up to Article 6 of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which calls on them to carry out good-faith negotiations to eliminate nuclear wea...
Raina: Quiet Flows the Gutter Paved with Gold
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Badri Raina
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The New Indian Middle Class will surely take us far; from hauteur, humbug, heartlessness to bloody civil war. (Badri Raina, Hippopotamus, Modest Proposal & Other Rhymes For the Times, Sahmat pub., Delhi, 2000) A week or so ago, one Prash...
Raina: State of the Nation
Znet Article, September, 16 2007
Badri Raina
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As I ponder India 2007, I am struck how truly free a country she is. You may just do as you please—multiply lucre, or starve and opt for suicide. You may also kill without let or hindrance. How often does history offer so sanguine, even if lar...
Raina: The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion
Znet Article, August, 15 2007
Badri Raina
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The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion
Raina: Indian State on Trial
Znet Article, August, 07 2007
Badri Raina
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This story has been told before, but can never be told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva putsch overcame the majesty of the Indian State. With the full and open collaboration of the then BJP government in Utta...
Raina: Vedic Mantra in the American Senate
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Badri Raina
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Even as "Potter Mania" overtakes India, the American Senate has been overtaken by Hindu-Vedic mantras. Fascinating conjuncture. Fascinating because the conjuncture invites such diverse reads, depending on where and how we are located as historic...
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...
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...
