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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.

Znet Article Raina: Judge Not the Judge, or Thou Shalt Be Judged.

Znet Article, August, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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Now I say “god, let me be born a judge in a higher court in India.”

Znet Article Raina: Bhartiya Janata Party: Searching a New Subterfuge?

Znet Article, June, 29 2009 Badri Raina
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On a TV talk-show the other day, one of the chief spokespersons of the RSS/BJP, Sheshadrachari, when pressed by the smart anchor to define “Hindutva,” conceded that the only definition available to this day was the one that had come from Sava...

Znet Article Raina: India And Europe

Znet Article, June, 10 2009 Badri Raina
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The significance of what is happening in India is most starkly underscored by what has just happened in Europe.

Znet Article Raina: Indians Down Under

Znet Article, June, 03 2009 Badri Raina
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The Kangaroos have been behaving badly. Hopping mad, you might say.

Znet Article Raina: Verdict 2009

Znet Article, May, 20 2009 Badri Raina
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Can it be said, though, that Indian democracy is a work-in-progress which, even when it seems to coil upon itself, is always pointing to where it wishes to get?

Znet Article Raina: The Pakistan Problem - II

Znet Article, April, 24 2009 Badri Raina
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Routinely during India's routine “communal riots,” it is seen that there are those who. weapon in hand, set out to kill in the name of their religion, and, others who, despite belonging to the same religion, seek to save the hapless victi...

Znet Article Raina: L.K.Advani

Znet Article, April, 13 2009 Badri Raina
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India's oldest political formation, the Indian National Congress, dates back formally to 1885, a fact that the gauche Narendra Modi has recently scoffed at in his typical lumpen oratory.

Znet Article Raina: The Pakistan Problem

Znet Article, April, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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Now suppose that the post-Independence Indian State had been constituted as Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha, Golwalker and the RSS had wished it to be constituted - a theocratic Hindu one.

Znet Article Raina: Capitalism is Dead, Long Live Capitalism

Znet Article, April, 04 2009 Badri Raina
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One million Indian lives were consumed by the famine of 1771 in the Purnea district of the then undivided Bengal Province.

Znet Article Raina: India's Democracy Challenged

Znet Article, March, 27 2009 Badri Raina
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The fifteenth Lok Sabha (House of the People) is due to be elected, and the 16th of May, 2009 - counting day - will tell us what it looks like.

Znet Article Raina: The Spectacular Return of Gandhi's Spectacles

Znet Article, March, 06 2009 Badri Raina
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As the premier Gandhian, Vinobha Bhave, was to write of Gandhi's equation with Scientific Socialism: "Socialism wishes to advance by setting class against class, Gandhism by cutting across classes."

Znet Article Raina: The High-Minded Illiteracy Of the Indian Elite

Znet Article, February, 27 2009 Badri Raina
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The atavistic blood-lust of India's corporate-media elite has again come to the fore.

Znet Article Raina: Germany, 1933 / Gujarat, 2009

Znet Article, January, 22 2009 Badri Raina
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Just the other day, at the “Vibrant Gujarat” conclave in Ahmedabad, two of India's leading industrialists, Anil Ambani and Mittal, speculated from public platform what a radiantly developed country India could become were Narendra Modi t...

Znet Article Raina: Satyam

Znet Article, January, 13 2009 Badri Raina
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The “breaking news” now is that the global machismo of India’s corporates has indeed arrived at those pinnacles of fraud without which no corporate prowess may be taken seriously, much like the street-corner temple that only the neighbourhoo...

Znet Article Raina: Omar Abdullah

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in the recent elections to the state Assembly.

Znet Article Raina: India's 2009 Election

Znet Article, December, 26 2008 Badri Raina
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In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.

Znet Article Raina: India's Long But Sure Revolution

Znet Article, December, 13 2008 Badri Raina
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Remarkably, where vested segments among Hindu organizations have sought to move the majority community towards undemocratic closures, it is the beleaguered Muslim counterparts that have been showing the way to greater democratic consolidations.

Znet Article Raina: Enough is Enough

Znet Article, November, 29 2008 Badri Raina
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was the result of a laudable anti-colonial impulse, sinc...

Znet Article Raina: The Quest for Purity

Znet Article, November, 24 2008 Badri Raina
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These are confused times for India’s political Hinduism.

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