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Raina: Is Pakistan Coming Full Circle?
Znet Article, December, 27 2011
Badri Raina
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What is happening among the Pakistan establishment currently must be regarded as extraordinary by any reckoning.
Raina: Just Why Did God Create Us?
Znet Article, December, 16 2011
Badri Raina
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The onslaughts of the 1989/90 moment were set to change much of how good-natured, caring, secular Kashmiri young people lived and bonded.
Raina: As the Murdered Come Alive
Znet Article, November, 30 2011
Badri Raina
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That if the object of murder is to obliterate forever the “other”, the act of murder in fact has the consequence of not obliterating but perpetuating that “other” forever.
Raina: I am the Electronic Media
Znet Article, November, 10 2011
Badri Raina
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America , as you might know, has the Rifle Association. Nobody, but nobody, Republican or Democrat, may touch it.
Raina: Endgame in Gujarat?
Znet Article, October, 04 2011
Badri Raina
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Gujarat seems poised to emerge from the heart of darkness into the sunshine of common day
Raina: The Abject Desperation of the Right Wing
Znet Article, September, 17 2011
Badri Raina
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Modi’s leap from his captive constituency in Gujarat to the national stage cannot be effected unless ways are found to neutralize his humungous culpabilities with respect to the carnage of 2002.
Raina: Those That Rule Above and Beyond
Znet Article, September, 13 2011
Badri Raina
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However the Congress and the BJP may be warring on issue after issue, both these faces of Indian Capitalism obey the Ambanis.
Raina: Corruption: A Heady Brew
Znet Article, August, 24 2011
Badri Raina
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These are heady days in India. An orgy is underway in many parts, as angels of virtue shriek holy imprecations, ostensibly, to exorcise the demon “Corruption,” a word that has a nice Biblical-post-lapsarian ring to it.
Raina: What is a Temple Minus the Moolah?
Znet Article, August, 01 2011
Badri Raina
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What would a temple be without the money?
Raina: The State of the Left
Znet Article, May, 24 2011
Badri Raina
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I think fighting Capitalism at this juncture in India’s history must mean engaging with oppressions of diverse definition
Raina: Communalism Bad, Development Good
Znet Article, April, 13 2011
Badri Raina
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A voice has been raised in India against the venal misdeeds of politicians and, mutedly, of bureaucrats (no mention of the corporates here).
Raina: The Intimate Zone
Znet Article, April, 04 2011
Badri Raina
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Ask any ordinary Indian citizen whether the bulk of their elected representatives or members of the administrative tribe ever really can be trusted to square with them on any issue at hand—from the burst water pipeline, to the price of foo...
Raina: Uncle Sam and the Indian Left on the Same Page
Znet Article, March, 27 2011
Badri Raina
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I must confess to be rather serenly unsurprised by the Wikileaks pertaining to India.
Raina: Thus Conscience Can Make Good Indians of Us All
Znet Article, February, 24 2011
Badri Raina
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I was asked the other day what kinds of people I thought to be the greatest danger to the “idea of India.” Yet my simple point was that the answer to the question must depend greatly on how one is placed within the nation-state.
Raina: Modi vs the Constitution
Znet Article, February, 09 2011
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The Special Investigation Team entrusted by the Supreme Court of India to enquire into the culpabilities with respect especially to the gruesome killings at the Gulbarg Society has now submitted its report to the honourable Court.
Raina: Pigeonholing Gandhi
Znet Article, January, 31 2011
Badri Raina
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Like most non-specialist browsers, I have read not more than that “good bit” of Gandhi and not more than some twenty or so book-length studies of him.
Raina: Isn't dissent the essence of democracy?
Znet Article, January, 18 2011
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A charge of sedition has been brought up against Arundhati Roy following some statements she made at a meeting in Delhi supporting the demand for Kashmiri “azadi” (variously interpretable, secession from the Union being one).
Raina: Binayak Sen Sentenced to Life Term
Znet Article, January, 02 2011
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A Sessions court judge in Raipur, capital of the BJP-ruled state of Chattisgarh, has pronounced Binayak Sen guilty of sedition and conspiracy against the State, and sentenced the good doctor to a life term in prison.
Raina: Corruption Makes Neo-Liberalism Go
Znet Article, December, 20 2010
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India never had so much lucre going around, so big a class of people with lolling tongues and copious pockets, and so little prohibition to illicit money-making on behalf of the neo-liberal State and its institutions.
Raina: Eminences of the Bench
Znet Article, October, 26 2010
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There is that vignette in Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch where the protagonist looks idly out of the window at the bay below and seems to see an array of ships lined there, not all the same but their make and model spanning the centuries gone...
Raina: An Open Letter to Ten Percent India, Myself Included
Znet Article, October, 21 2010
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The Games are over. Our revels have ended for now. Many white people have gone satisfied; some even impressed.
Raina: The Ayodhya Verdict
Znet Article, October, 04 2010
Badri Raina
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I agree with most that the honourable court seems to have with deliberation chosen to operate rather more like a problem-solver than a legal/juridical entity.
Raina: We abuse Ram when we spill blood in his name
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
Badri Raina
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One of my most soothing childhood memories is of my mother reading aloud the Ram Katha (the story of the ancient, mythical or not, King of Ayodhya).
Raina: What a piece of work is man
Znet Article, September, 13 2010
Badri Raina
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The Indian state displays its faculties of innovation and spending in the works it gets made at less than minimum wage, and, on the other side, plays the beast to man, woman, and child who have, alas, not inherited the pedigree of Renaissance Hum...
Raina: So, What Colour Is Terror?
Znet Article, September, 01 2010
Badri Raina
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Currently, one of the “burning issues” on media channels here in India is what colour we may ascribe or not ascribe to terror. A conundrum, if there ever was one.
Raina: Kashmir Now Or Never
Znet Article, August, 13 2010
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If the prospect, that is, of the secession of the valley—since other parts of the state of Jammu & Kashmir desire, contrarily, not secession but more complete integration with the Union of India-- were not fraught with incalculable negative conse...
Raina: The Nation at Stake
Znet Article, August, 01 2010
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As the skeletons tumble in droves out of the house of horrors in Gujarat, right-wing Hindutva forces which now openly include the “main opposition Party” in parliament, the BJP, is up in arms at what it suits them to call a Congress-inspir...
Raina: GDP vs GDP
Znet Article, July, 15 2010
Badri Raina
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India’s GDP is set to grow at 9.4%, sayeth the oracle of the World Bank.
Raina: Food Or Nutrition?
Znet Article, July, 07 2010
Badri Raina
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As the Indian government contemplates a Right-to-Food Act, whereby some rice and/or wheat might be given to those below the “poverty line” (which, in diverse computations by the “experts” ranges from some 27% of Indians to some 77%) at nominal r...
Raina: Capital’s Surge, Custom’s Dike
Znet Article, June, 28 2010
Badri Raina
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Old orders do indeed change, but “good customs” continue to corrupt and bloody India.
