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Znet Article Raina: Caesar can do no wrong

Znet Article, May, 19 2013 Badri Raina
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Modi is used to being Caesar for his customary good governance.

Znet Article Raina: Chanakya and Machiavelli Rolled into One

Znet Article, April, 19 2013 Badri Raina
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Why is Modi seeking the death penalty for two people who served him so well in the past?

Znet Article Raina: Prepare a way for Modi

Znet Article, March, 06 2013 Badri Raina
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The Indian rightwing is in a tizzy of anticipation. The savior of the haves is here. His name is Narendra Modi.

Znet Article Raina: India’s Congress Party in Renewal Mode

Znet Article, January, 23 2013 Badri Raina
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Rahul Gandhi’s address also underscored unreservedly the conviction that it is to the Advasis, Dalits, Women, and Minorities that India’s policy apparatus must address itself in the coming days...

Znet Article Raina: The Bible according to Bhagwat

Znet Article, January, 15 2013 Badri Raina
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It is such a relief finally to know why and where rapes take place in this sanaatan land.

Znet Article Raina: Of wolves and men

Znet Article, January, 11 2013 Badri Raina
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However "elitist" the current outcry against rape in India may seem, its intellectual content and exponential possibilities clearly suggest that the good fight has been joined in a concerted manner for the first time.

Znet Article Raina: The Awakening

Znet Article, November, 05 2012 Badri Raina
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How “exceptional” may America consider herself henceforth when it so obviously seems as helpless against hurricanoes as the least of the world’s nations?

Znet Article Raina: The Empire Begs Back

Znet Article, October, 27 2012 Badri Raina
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There is jubilee among current-day Hindutva satraps as we write: for lo and behold, no less than the British High Commissioner in India has gone and met the globally ostracised Narendra Modi!

Znet Article Raina: History happens sleeping and waking

Znet Article, October, 12 2012 Badri Raina
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Nearly some two centuries ago, the heavy-duty Hegel pronounced that “India has no history. It is a repeat of the same old majestic ruin.”

Znet Article Raina: Analyse this

Znet Article, September, 10 2012 Badri Raina
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An hour ago I heard the distraught mother of one of these men bemoan that her son could never do such things because he is so “religious.”

Znet Article Raina: McCarthyism Mamta Style

Znet Article, August, 22 2012 Badri Raina
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Mamta’s MacCarthyist paranoia now seems to extend its reach.

Znet Article Raina: In Gujarat What You See is not What You Get

Znet Article, August, 17 2012 Badri Raina
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This is a story that beggars belief, and puts into the shade everything we have thus far known of Narendra Modi’s prowess at chicanery and subterfuge.

Znet Article Raina: What lies ahead in the annals of Anna

Znet Article, August, 11 2012 Badri Raina
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Can the nobility of intention survive the murk and mire of electoral politics?

Znet Article Raina: Animal Spirits

Znet Article, July, 18 2012 Badri Raina
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Between the 1830s and 1850s, the human race, chiefly in Britannia, evolved into animal spirits.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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).

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Raina: Modi vs the Constitution

Znet Article, February, 09 2011 Badri Raina
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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.

Znet Article 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.

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