| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Raina: Isn't dissent the essence of democracy?
Znet Article, January, 18 2011
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
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
Raina's ZSpace page
Old orders do indeed change, but “good customs” continue to corrupt and bloody India.
Raina: India, America, Israel
Znet Article, June, 12 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
India’s foreign policy has been to draw closer to both the United States and Israel.
Raina: India’s Globalised “Godmen”
Znet Article, June, 05 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Long before the Washington Consensus, and long before the empire began to write back, Indian globalization was first and truly effected by India’s “godmen.”
Raina: The Zionist State at it Again
Znet Article, June, 01 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Tweet: “Yes, unarmed activists attacked Israeli commandos—RIGHT! With bread, eggs, and bananas; it surely was an onslaught.”
Raina: Crunch Time for India: Who Speaks for the People?
Znet Article, May, 19 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
As violence in four or five Indian states—Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal—comes to a boil, the State blames the Maoists and the Maoists blame the State.
Raina: Return to the People What is the People’s: Verdict Long Overdue.
Znet Article, May, 10 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Now if you haven’t heard of the brothers Ambani you clearly cannot be a citizen of the world.
Raina: Rewriting Proverbs
Znet Article, May, 06 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Unlike my friend, J.Sriraman, the reputed columnist, I am no expert on matters nuclear.
Raina: Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Corruptest of them All?
Znet Article, April, 25 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
I have a grouse, and an axe to grind with the “International Agency “ which has recently placed India at just number 4 in the list of the most corrupt nations in South and South-East Asia.
Raina: Destitution
Znet Article, April, 09 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Hindustan Times is a leading herald of the developmental path that the current Indian government vows to carry forward in the main.
Raina: Troubled Times for Advani & Modi
Znet Article, March, 31 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
It suits India’s elite opinion-makers always to characterize the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as India’s “principal opposition party.”
Raina: Women’s Reservation Bill—II
Znet Article, March, 15 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A cacophony of rather frightened voices seek to embroil this deepening of representative democracy in doubts and distractions...
Raina: A Parliament of Women as much as of Men
Znet Article, March, 10 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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.
Raina: Too Small A Country for One Great Artist
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
A determined falange of bigots were to discover some few years ago that a Husain painting was in existence which represented India partially in comely female form.
Raina: You the Fascists; We the People.
Znet Article, February, 14 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
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.
Raina: India, Australia
Znet Article, February, 09 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
“Try to look as poor as you can,” he advises Indian immigrants to Australia.
Raina: Constructing Shah Rukh Khan
Znet Article, February, 03 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor.
Raina: A Tale of Two Chief Ministers
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Long years ago, at the conclusion of my doctoral work in America, pressure was put on me to stay and teach there.
