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Znet Article Raina: Quiet Flows the Gutter Paved with Gold

Znet Article, October, 04 2007 Badri Raina
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  The New Indian Middle Class  will surely take us far;  from hauteur, humbug, heartlessness  to bloody civil war.   (Badri Raina, Hippopotamus, Modest Proposal & Other Rhymes  For the Times, Sahmat pub., Delhi, 2000) A week or so ago, one Prash...

Znet Article Raina: State of the Nation

Znet Article, September, 16 2007 Badri Raina
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As I ponder India 2007,  I am struck how truly free a country she is.  You may just do as you please—multiply lucre, or starve and opt for suicide.  You may also kill without let or hindrance. How often does history offer so sanguine, even if lar...

Znet Article Raina: The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion

Znet Article, August, 15 2007 Badri Raina
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The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion

Znet Article Raina: Indian State on Trial

Znet Article, August, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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This story has been told before, but can never be  told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva putsch overcame the majesty of the Indian State. With the full and open collaboration of the then BJP government in Utta...

Znet Article Raina: Teach Them Not to Think

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Badri Raina
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There is no such thing as a value neutral educational process. (Richard Shaull, Foreword to Pedagogy of the Oppressed) After the initial attempts by a section of Christian-bourgeois souls (Dickens, Carlyle, Chadwick, Mayhew, Mrs.Gaskell, even th...

Znet Article Raina: Vedic Mantra in the American Senate

Znet Article, July, 16 2007 Badri Raina
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Even as "Potter Mania" overtakes India, the American Senate has been overtaken by Hindu-Vedic mantras.  Fascinating conjuncture. Fascinating because the conjuncture invites such diverse reads, depending on where and how we are located as historic...

Znet Article Raina: New Ringtones from Condy Rice

Znet Article, July, 09 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph(s) History is a moral necessity for a nation which is the world's dominant power. It is the best antidote to delusions of ominipotence and omniscience.        Arthur Schlesinger The longer you look back, the further you can look forwar...

Znet Article Raina: Coronation by Divination, History by Hearsay

Znet Article, June, 29 2007 Badri Raina
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In my last offering ("India Steals a March," ZNet, June 19,2007) I expressed my delight at the prospect that the next President of the Indian Republic was likely to be a woman. That, even as I qualified the delight by stating "I must confess I ha...

Znet Article Raina: India Steals a March

Znet Article, June, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph Here is what we say:recognize the altered night and day;men and women must together findan honest will to put behinda habitually distorted humankind. (Badri Raina, Our Share of the World, Museindia.com) Since all evaluations nowadays o...

Znet Article Raina: The Turnaround in Uttar Pradesh

Znet Article, June, 06 2007 Badri Raina
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Epigraph By the pricking of my thumbs,Something pregnant this way comes. (with apologies to the bard for the plagiarism). Why does the feeling persist, certainly with this hack, that notwithstanding some astute and trustworthy analyses of the e...

Znet Article Raina: Mullah Modi

Znet Article, May, 14 2007 Badri Raina
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If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...

Znet Article Raina: 2007

Znet Article, May, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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"The question of the relationship of political emancipation to religion becomes. . .the question of of the relationship of political emancipation to human emancipation." -Marx It has taken a long time in happening, but at long last modern India...

Znet Article Raina: Nandigram and the Left

Znet Article, April, 11 2007 Badri Raina
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However much the  CPI(M),  including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue. Things have now come to a pass when as we...

Znet Article Raina: Parvenu Nationalism

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world” tend to become “national allegories.” And I also recall   some noted Indian intellectuals taking umb...

Znet Article Raina: End of the Tight-Rope Walk

Znet Article, March, 19 2007 Badri Raina
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So uncle Sam has spoken.  Musharraf is a good man after all, and the best bet for “democracy” in Pakistan.  This  only days after the U.S. Senate decreed that all future aid to  that country be tied to the General delivering in the...

Znet Article Raina: Hanging the Corrupt by the Lampost

Znet Article, March, 10 2007 Badri Raina
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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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

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