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Znet Article Raina: Women’s Reservation Bill—II

Znet Article, March, 15 2010 Badri Raina
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A cacophony of rather frightened voices seek to embroil this deepening of representative democracy in doubts and distractions...

Znet Article Raina: A Parliament of Women as much as of Men

Znet Article, March, 10 2010 Badri Raina
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For some fifteen years now, the proposal to accord 33% reservation to Indian women has been the most consequential and contested issue in India’s political discourse.

Znet Article Raina: You the Fascists; We the People.

Znet Article, February, 14 2010 Badri Raina
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History now and again offers moments of hope that seem small and fleeting but, placed in larger contexts and taken at the tide, promise reconstructions of far-reaching magnitude.

Znet Article Raina: India, Australia

Znet Article, February, 09 2010 Badri Raina
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“Try to look as poor as you can,” he advises Indian immigrants to Australia.

Znet Article Raina: Constructing Shah Rukh Khan

Znet Article, February, 03 2010 Badri Raina
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Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor.

Znet Article Raina: A Tale of Two Chief Ministers

Znet Article, January, 24 2010 Badri Raina
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Long years ago, at the conclusion of my doctoral work in America, pressure was put on me to stay and teach there.

Znet Article Raina: Why do extremes unsettle our comfortable middle ground?

Znet Article, January, 08 2010 Badri Raina
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Manmohan Singh expressed deep apprehension at the vile attempts of some “extremists” to cause unacceptable imbalances and dethronements in the orderly project of the peaceful enhancement of mainline developmental concerns, piloted no doubt b...

Znet Article Raina: A Future India Must Do Without

Znet Article, January, 02 2010 Badri Raina
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All of the year gone by, India's corporate classes - in sundry areas of material control, including the media - have been pushing and prodding the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to return from the dumps to health and vigour.

Znet Article Raina: L.K.Advani and the Mythology of “Sadness”

Znet Article, December, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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On December 6, 1992, when the Babri mosque was razed to rubble, Ruchira Gupta was a journalist with Business India.

Znet Article Raina: The Liberhan Report

Znet Article, December, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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There is substantial evidence that one or two of his own cabinet ministers had warned him of the RSS plans for December 6 well in advance.

Znet Article Raina: Carting Off Medical Institute to Corporate Predators

Znet Article, December, 12 2009 Badri Raina
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No one can be perfectly healthy till all are healthy.

Znet Article Raina: Does Ideology Matter?

Znet Article, November, 16 2009 Badri Raina
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A government report just released on the situation of India’s tribals blames the government itself and companies like the Tatas and Essar for the disquiet in the tribal “hinterlands.”

Znet Article Raina: India’s Left-Wing Extremism

Znet Article, October, 13 2009 Badri Raina
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Even as the Indian state ponders the situation along its international borders with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is increasingly challenged by the spread of left-wing armed extremism at home.

Znet Article Raina: Gandhi at the service of Mont Blanc

Znet Article, October, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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So, is Gandhi great for what ideas he had, or is he great because he can be fetishised and sold?

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir Ripe for Endgame?

Znet Article, September, 30 2009 Badri Raina
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The moment is propitious for all parties to the Kashmir stalemate to push for an endgame.

Znet Article Raina: Old Habits Die Very Hard

Znet Article, September, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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This wall was built to deny access to casteless Tamils of Uthapuram to public places and facilities frequented by caste Tamils on the other side

Znet Article Raina: Something Rotten in the State of Gujarat

Znet Article, September, 11 2009 Badri Raina
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Four new skeletons now rattle for justice in the Modi cupboard.

Znet Article Raina: Yet He Could Not Equivocate to Heaven

Znet Article, August, 31 2009 Badri Raina
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His great contribution to politics: pulling his party, the BJP, from two to some one hundred and eighty seats in parliament - all on the back of a hate-filled, anti-Muslim pogrom.

Znet Article Raina: The Democracy Flu

Znet Article, August, 25 2009 Badri Raina
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Ah, how often in human history have bastions of one kind or another sought to thwart the march of the rational, always without success.

Znet Article Raina: For Aung San Suu Kyi

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Badri Raina
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So, we ask, are the generals winning or losing Burma? Losing, we think.

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