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Znet Article Raina: Omar Abdullah

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Badri Raina
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The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in the recent elections to the state Assembly.

Znet Article Raina: India's 2009 Election

Znet Article, December, 26 2008 Badri Raina
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In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.

Znet Article Raina: India's Long But Sure Revolution

Znet Article, December, 13 2008 Badri Raina
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Remarkably, where vested segments among Hindu organizations have sought to move the majority community towards undemocratic closures, it is the beleaguered Muslim counterparts that have been showing the way to greater democratic consolidations.

Znet Article Raina: Enough is Enough

Znet Article, November, 29 2008 Badri Raina
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Like every other Indian, therefore, I am deeply saddened both by the insane loss of life, notable and ordinary, and by the damage done to this edifice. Especially when I recall that the Taj was the result of a laudable anti-colonial impulse, sinc...

Znet Article Raina: The Quest for Purity

Znet Article, November, 24 2008 Badri Raina
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These are confused times for India’s political Hinduism.

Znet Article Raina: Hindu Terrorism

Znet Article, November, 16 2008 Badri Raina
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So, now, India is home to �Hindu� terrorism...

Znet Article Raina: Notions of the Nation

Znet Article, November, 03 2008 Badri Raina
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Within hours, literally, the world will know whether the nation-state in America as decreed by the American Constitution has or has not triumphed finally over the competing, even if subterranean, notion of the nation as race.

Znet Article Raina: Simplicities

Znet Article, October, 23 2008 Badri Raina
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What lovely times those must have been when a rose was a rose by any name?

Znet Article Raina: India’s Failed Secularism

Znet Article, October, 07 2008 Badri Raina
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Likewise, how fortuitous for India’s beleaguered Christians that the good Prime Minister had to suffer “embarrassment” while traveling Christian lands recently. Think that in France, the spunky Sarkozy called the Kandhamal mayhem a “massacre” to ...

Znet Article Raina: Sweet Time For the Left in India

Znet Article, September, 20 2008 Badri Raina
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As the American neocon state borrows a whole sheaf from Chavez and other despised socialists, and stoops to nationalizing—yes, nationalizing-- the great and invincible bulwarks of American Capitalism, it underscores a theory of state that says ...

Znet Article Raina: Fighting Terror the Terrorist Way

Znet Article, September, 17 2008 Badri Raina
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By first causing monumental social upheavals in the pursuit of profit maximization, then recommending quick-fixes guaranteed to spawn still worse upheavals so that more profitable quick-fixes are in turn rendered “necessary.” And all these rooted ...

Znet Article Raina: Conversions

Znet Article, September, 06 2008 Badri Raina
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Take any of India’s political parties—excluding the ossified Left which remains unprofitably wedded to principle, although the principle may change from circumstance to circumstance—and you will find that its elected legislators may, whenever the ...

Znet Article Raina: The US Presidential Elections

Znet Article, August, 30 2008 Badri Raina
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First the question: does it matter much whether America elects a Republican or a Democrat as its President? May be not to the rest of the world, but to American citizens it does.

Znet Article Raina: Georgia and the End of Unilateralism

Znet Article, August, 17 2008 Badri Raina
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After decades of the US being the only superpower, the world is changing.

Znet Article Raina: India’s Roughshod Ruling Class:

Znet Article, July, 12 2008 Badri Raina
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I may not be accused of ever having written a good word about L.K.Advani, the leader and now projected prime ministerial candidate of the Hindu-rightwing Bhartiya Janata Party.

Znet Article Raina: Three Men In a Quandry: Democracy, Who Needs It.

Znet Article, June, 26 2008 Badri Raina
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Nature may break the levees and uproot whole populations, but Presidents and Prime Ministers may not. You might well ask what is a President or Prime Minister for, if the little fellows should cussedly latch on to the sandbags of suspicion and sa...

Znet Article Raina: The Chieftain State of Gujarat

Znet Article, June, 13 2008 Badri Raina
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When, after the massacre of Muslims in 2002, the electorate in Gujarat voted the butcher of Gandhinagar—the Capital city of Gujarat; but think of the enormous irony of that oxymoron—back to power, they effectively declared their secession from th...

Znet Article Raina: Fatwa Against Terrorism

Znet Article, June, 07 2008 Badri Raina
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May 31, 2008 must rank as a very consequential day in modern Indian history. Indeed, it might be said, in modern Muslim history as well. On that day, in a public gathering at Delhi’s historic Ramlila grounds, hundreds of thousands, mainly Muslims...

Znet Article Raina: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul

Znet Article, May, 30 2008 Badri Raina
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Like a long line of painters through human history, Husain has often painted the nude. Painters we are told seek to penetrate beyond man-made encumbrances to celebrate how god made the world in the first place. Far, then, from being a lascivious...

Znet Article Raina: The State, the Seminaries, and the People of India

Znet Article, May, 19 2008 Badri Raina
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Over the last month or so, India’s most influential Islamic seminaries—Deoband, Bareilly, Lucknow, Hyderabad—have been holding well-attended public meetings/conferences with a single-point agenda. Namely, to make it known that the so-called “...

Znet Article Raina: Anti-Globalist Zeitgeist

Znet Article, May, 11 2008 Badri Raina
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Clearly, the Left is not too well placed today either to return to the “Calcutta Thesis” of 1943 (armed struggle), nor to reap through appeals to class oppression alone the kind of electoral dividends that have accrued to the communists in Nepal. ...

Znet Article Raina: Cricket as Surrogate Kill

Znet Article, April, 30 2008 Badri Raina
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Turn on any of India’s up-market corporate channels, and you will find therein but just one lead: the IPL, or the Indian Premier League of 20x20 cricket.

Znet Article Raina: Reading Nandigram

Znet Article, April, 26 2008 Badri Raina
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I recall a young member of the family who would snatch an Agatha Christie as someone was reading it, sift quickly to the last pages, find out who-done-it, hand the book back, and grin for days with the secret knowledge that the one reading the boo...

Znet Article Raina: Salwa Judum: The state as instigator of war between peoples

Znet Article, April, 03 2008 Badri Raina
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For more than a year now the government in Chattisgarh, supported, it must be said, by some local Congress stalwarts, has quarantined some fifty thousand tribals in make-shift camps away from their homes, provided them arms of primitive make, and ...

Znet Article Raina: Fascists Attack the Communist Party Office

Znet Article, March, 17 2008 Badri Raina
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Ever since the Hindutva right-wing, led by the top leadership of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), demolished the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on Dec.,6,1992 in brazen defiance of the Constitution and the rule of Law, the question has been asked whether...

Znet Article Raina: Well Done

Znet Article, February, 23 2008 Badri Raina
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For the wary, let me say that it is not my incautious case that democracy has finally arrived in Pakistan (when does anything ever arrive finally?). An election, alas, does not a democracy make all by itself.

Znet Article Raina: The Treacheries of Words

Znet Article, January, 23 2008 Badri Raina
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Is "carnage" and "bloodbath" the right language to describe a stock market crash?

Znet Article Raina: Essentialising Pakistan

Znet Article, January, 13 2008 Badri Raina
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An Indian view on Benazir Bhutto's murder

Znet Article Raina: Gujarat

Znet Article, December, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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Unlike the mellow inclusivity of Nehruvian enlightenment that strenuously refused the bastardization of variegated cultural refinement and richness, that resisted a gluttonously rapacious leap for the mainchance, leaving the underdog to his/her ow...

Znet Article Raina: Gujarat 2002

Znet Article, December, 13 2007 Badri Raina
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The German philosopher, Kant, gave to the world two highly consequential orders of epistemology.

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