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Raina: Hanging the Corrupt by the Lampost
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
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On the 6th of March, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, hearing a fodder-scam related case, permitted itself a rather unusual but highly instructive majesterial “observation.†Be it recalled that the fodder scam refe...
Raina: Kashmir Calling
Znet Article, February, 09 2007
Badri Raina
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Epigraph Did you kill this man?I did;Did you know he was not a militant?I did;Then why did you do so?For reward;Do you know you committed a crime?But, sir, he was only a Kashmiri. Even as utterly bigoted and power-drunk rogues amo...
Raina: The Meaning of Modi
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Badri Raina
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[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run it on the 5th anniversary of the massacres.] After the true purposes of the Nazi party began to reveal themselves in H...
Raina: Is Independence a Viable Option for Jammu & Kashmir?
Znet Article, January, 24 2007
Badri Raina
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On January 16, 2007, the Academy of Third World Studies at Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi organized an interactive meet to deliberate on the “Kashmir Problem.†Some well-informed and well-regarded “Kashmir hands...
Raina: The Saddam Murder
Znet Article, December, 31 2006
Badri Raina
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Finally the democratic deed is done. The benign imperialists have set Iraq and the world on the road to peace and justice. They may have “handed†him over to the Quisling regime, but, forestalling all potential risk, hung him wit...
Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims
Znet Article, December, 15 2006
Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee†(set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...
Raina: Irom Sharmila
Znet Article, November, 25 2006
Badri Raina
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I have before me a national English Daily which is much given to spreading the word about the beauties of “reform†and modern “development†in India. Never a day passes when it does not remind us and the world how ...
Raina: The Last Straw
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Badri Raina
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When Jack Straw the other day encountered a muslim woman, face veiled in niqab, it spelt in his mind the last straw for white-dominated multiculturalism in Britain. Surely and soon enough the post-9/11 discourse centring on the ostensibly unco...
Raina: Capital Punishment
Znet Article, October, 11 2006
Badri Raina
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In recent weeks, the Indian public mind (often cutely managed by a savvy media world), has been much drawn towards two happenings. One of these concerns the propagation of “Gandhigiri†(a rather unfortunate analogue of “Ch...
Raina: The Beginning of the End of the Neocon Empire?
Znet Article, September, 26 2006
Badri Raina
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Mr. David C. Mulford is formally the American ambassador to India. Over the last year or two, however, he has off and on made public pronouncements suggesting that he fancies himself more a neocon Viceroy than an ambassador who is required to fun...
Raina: Vande Mataram
Znet Article, August, 31 2006
Badri Raina
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Some two decades into acclaimed and dedicated service to King and country, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, was finally confronted with his patriot test by Henry the VIIIth. He was ordered to intervene with the Pope in Rome for his co...
Raina: Indian Muslims
Znet Article, August, 16 2006
Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...
Raina: Gujarat 2006— Same But Not the Same
Znet Article, August, 02 2006
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It would be a grave miscalculation for the Indian State as well aswell-meaning secular and peace-loving Indians to be taken in by Narendra Modi’s seemingly conciliatory visit to the scene of the last round of violence in Vadodra (in the m...
Raina: We The People
Znet Article, July, 19 2006
Badri Raina
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In perhaps the first public statement he made after the event of December 13,2001 when the Indian Parliament became the target of a terrorist attack, (although there are those who still speculate about who the real attackers might have been), the ...
Raina: Kashmir
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Badri Raina
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Experience teaches us that often those sections of society who profit the most from historical change are the first to lament when calls go up for further change. The fact, nonetheless is, as atleast one school of political epistemology recogn...
Raina: Back to a Better Version of Reform
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Badri Raina
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Although the custodians of ‘ruling ideas’ seek always to lend ‘universal’ weight to concepts that suit them, it remains a truism of common human experience that the same words across changing histories do not mean t...
Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis
Znet Article, June, 24 2006
Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space (“India and Nepalâ€, Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...
Raina: India and Nepal
Znet Article, June, 10 2006
Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI, King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal has finally been denuded of all his powers. It hardly matters now what royal robes he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...
