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Znet Article Raina: Those That Rule Above and Beyond

Znet Article, September, 13 2011 Badri Raina
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However the Congress and the BJP may be warring on issue after issue, both these faces of Indian Capitalism obey the Ambanis.

Znet Article Raina: Corruption: A Heady Brew

Znet Article, August, 24 2011 Badri Raina
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These are heady days in India. An orgy is underway in many parts, as angels of virtue shriek holy imprecations, ostensibly, to exorcise the demon “Corruption,” a word that has a nice Biblical-post-lapsarian ring to it.

Znet Article Raina: What is a Temple Minus the Moolah?

Znet Article, August, 01 2011 Badri Raina
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What would a temple be without the money?

Znet Article Raina: The State of the Left

Znet Article, May, 24 2011 Badri Raina
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I think fighting Capitalism at this juncture in India’s history must mean engaging with oppressions of diverse definition

Znet Article 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).

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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).

Znet Article Raina: Binayak Sen Sentenced to Life Term

Znet Article, January, 02 2011 Badri Raina
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A Sessions court judge in Raipur, capital of the BJP-ruled state of Chattisgarh, has pronounced Binayak Sen guilty of sedition and conspiracy against the State, and sentenced the good doctor to a life term in prison.

Znet Article Raina: Corruption Makes Neo-Liberalism Go

Znet Article, December, 20 2010 Badri Raina
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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.

Znet Article Raina: Eminences of the Bench

Znet Article, October, 26 2010 Badri Raina
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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...

Znet Article Raina: An Open Letter to Ten Percent India, Myself Included

Znet Article, October, 21 2010 Badri Raina
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The Games are over. Our revels have ended for now. Many white people have gone satisfied; some even impressed.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Raina: We abuse Ram when we spill blood in his name

Znet Article, September, 19 2010 Badri Raina
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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).

Znet Article Raina: What a piece of work is man

Znet Article, September, 13 2010 Badri Raina
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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...

Znet Article Raina: So, What Colour Is Terror?

Znet Article, September, 01 2010 Badri Raina
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Currently, one of the “burning issues” on media channels here in India is what colour we may ascribe or not ascribe to terror. A conundrum, if there ever was one.

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir Now Or Never

Znet Article, August, 13 2010 Badri Raina
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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...

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