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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 ...
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.
Raina: Georgia and the End of Unilateralism
Znet Article, August, 17 2008
Badri Raina
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After decades of the US being the only superpower, the world is changing.
Raina: India’s Roughshod Ruling Class:
Znet Article, July, 12 2008
Badri Raina
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I may not be accused of ever having written a good word about L.K.Advani, the leader and now projected prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu-rightwing Bhartiya Janata Party.
Raina: Three Men In a Quandry: Democracy, Who Needs It.
Znet Article, June, 26 2008
Badri Raina
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Nature may break the levees and uproot whole populations, but Presidents and Prime Ministers may not. You might well ask what is a President or Prime Minister for, if the little fellows should cussedly latch on to the sandbags of suspicion and sa...
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: Reading Nandigram
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Badri Raina
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I recall a young member of the family who would snatch an Agatha Christie as someone was reading it, sift quickly to the last pages, find out who-done-it, hand the book back, and grin for days with the secret knowledge that the one reading the boo...
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...
Raina: Well Done
Znet Article, February, 23 2008
Badri Raina
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For the wary, let me say that it is not my incautious case that democracy has finally arrived in Pakistan (when does anything ever arrive finally?). An election, alas, does not a democracy make all by itself.
Raina: The Treacheries of Words
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Badri Raina
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Is "carnage" and "bloodbath" the right language to describe a stock market crash?
Raina: Essentialising Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Badri Raina
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An Indian view on Benazir Bhutto's murder
Raina: Gujarat
Znet Article, December, 27 2007
Badri Raina
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Unlike the mellow inclusivity of Nehruvian enlightenment that strenuously refused the bastardization of variegated cultural refinement and richness, that resisted a gluttonously rapacious leap for the mainchance, leaving the underdog to his/her ow...
