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Znet Article Raina: Why do extremes unsettle our comfortable middle ground?

Znet Article, January, 08 2010 Badri Raina
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Manmohan Singh expressed deep apprehension at the vile attempts of some “extremists” to cause unacceptable imbalances and dethronements in the orderly project of the peaceful enhancement of mainline developmental concerns, piloted no doubt b...

Znet Article Raina: A Future India Must Do Without

Znet Article, January, 02 2010 Badri Raina
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All of the year gone by, India's corporate classes - in sundry areas of material control, including the media - have been pushing and prodding the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to return from the dumps to health and vigour.

Znet Article Raina: L.K.Advani and the Mythology of “Sadness”

Znet Article, December, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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On December 6, 1992, when the Babri mosque was razed to rubble, Ruchira Gupta was a journalist with Business India.

Znet Article Raina: The Liberhan Report

Znet Article, December, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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There is substantial evidence that one or two of his own cabinet ministers had warned him of the RSS plans for December 6 well in advance.

Znet Article Raina: Carting Off Medical Institute to Corporate Predators

Znet Article, December, 12 2009 Badri Raina
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No one can be perfectly healthy till all are healthy.

Znet Article Raina: Does Ideology Matter?

Znet Article, November, 16 2009 Badri Raina
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A government report just released on the situation of India’s tribals blames the government itself and companies like the Tatas and Essar for the disquiet in the tribal “hinterlands.”

Znet Article Raina: India’s Left-Wing Extremism

Znet Article, October, 13 2009 Badri Raina
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Even as the Indian state ponders the situation along its international borders with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is increasingly challenged by the spread of left-wing armed extremism at home.

Znet Article Raina: Gandhi at the service of Mont Blanc

Znet Article, October, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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So, is Gandhi great for what ideas he had, or is he great because he can be fetishised and sold?

Znet Article Raina: Kashmir Ripe for Endgame?

Znet Article, September, 30 2009 Badri Raina
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The moment is propitious for all parties to the Kashmir stalemate to push for an endgame.

Znet Article Raina: Old Habits Die Very Hard

Znet Article, September, 18 2009 Badri Raina
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This wall was built to deny access to casteless Tamils of Uthapuram to public places and facilities frequented by caste Tamils on the other side

Znet Article Raina: Something Rotten in the State of Gujarat

Znet Article, September, 11 2009 Badri Raina
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Four new skeletons now rattle for justice in the Modi cupboard.

Znet Article Raina: Yet He Could Not Equivocate to Heaven

Znet Article, August, 31 2009 Badri Raina
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His great contribution to politics: pulling his party, the BJP, from two to some one hundred and eighty seats in parliament - all on the back of a hate-filled, anti-Muslim pogrom.

Znet Article Raina: The Democracy Flu

Znet Article, August, 25 2009 Badri Raina
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Ah, how often in human history have bastions of one kind or another sought to thwart the march of the rational, always without success.

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: Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Badri Raina
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Teekay, who was professor of English at Calicut university in Kerala, was more importantly one of the relentless critics of stultifying orthodoxy, including, most of all, with respect to India's Left parties and politics. Besides being erudite in...

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: Lalgarh: Poor Relations that the Left left out?

Znet Article, June, 23 2009 Badri Raina
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For some two decades now one fancy area of academic study in the Humanities has been that which is called “Postcolonial Studies.”

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...

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