Most Recent ContentZNet Article “Try to look as poor as you can,” he advises Indian immigrants to Australia. -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
ZNet Article Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor. -
- Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
ZNet Article Long years ago, at the conclusion of my doctoral work in America, pressure was put on me to stay and teach there. -
- Friday, Jan 08, 2010
ZNet Article 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 by men in power who know best. -
- Saturday, Jan 02, 2010
ZNet Article 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. -
- Friday, Dec 18, 2009
ZNet Article On December 6, 1992, when the Babri mosque was razed to rubble, Ruchira Gupta was a journalist with Business India. -
- Saturday, Dec 12, 2009
ZNet Article No one can be perfectly healthy till all are healthy. -
- Sunday, Nov 29, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, Nov 16, 2009
ZNet Article 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.†-
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
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- Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
ZNet Article So, is Gandhi great for what ideas he had, or is he great because he can be fetishised and sold? -
- Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009
ZNet Article The moment is propitious for all parties to the Kashmir stalemate to push for an endgame. -
- Friday, Sep 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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 -
- Friday, Sep 11, 2009
ZNet Article Four new skeletons now rattle for justice in the Modi cupboard. -
- Monday, Aug 31, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009
ZNet Article Ah, how often in human history have bastions of one kind or another sought to thwart the march of the rational, always without success. -
- Saturday, Aug 15, 2009
ZNet Article So, we ask, are the generals winning or losing Burma? Losing, we think. -
- Friday, Aug 07, 2009
ZNet Article Now I say “god, let me be born a judge in a higher court in India.†-
- Thursday, Jul 30, 2009
ZNet Article 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 Marxist theory well into its frontier extensions and amplifications upto his day. -
- Monday, Jun 29, 2009
ZNet Article 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 Savarkar. -
- Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009
ZNet Article For some two decades now one fancy area of academic study in the Humanities has been that which is called “Postcolonial Studies.†-
- Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009
ZNet Article The significance of what is happening in India is most starkly underscored by what has just happened in Europe. -
- Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009
ZNet Article The Kangaroos have been behaving badly. Hopping mad, you might say. -
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009
ZNet Article 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? -
- Friday, Apr 24, 2009
ZNet Article 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 victims because they happen to be just good-natured human beings first. -
- Monday, Apr 13, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Apr 07, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Saturday, Apr 04, 2009
ZNet Article One million Indian lives were consumed by the famine of 1771 in the Purnea district of the then undivided Bengal Province. -
- Friday, Mar 27, 2009
ZNet Article 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. - All Most Recent Content
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Badri Raina's Bio Info: Born 26th feb.,1941 in Kashmir; Ph.D Madison, W... moreBorn 26th feb.,1941 in Kashmir; Ph.D Madison, Wisconsin,1976; Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Fellow (1972 and 1984); Scholarly publication: Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth, Univ., of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1986; Scholarly Articles on Literary Theory, Culture/Language, History, Educational Ideology, Politics of Development and individual English writers; Raina's Ghalib, Writers' Workshop, Calcutta, 1984--interpretive transliterations of the poet; English Teacher, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University (four decades); rtd., 2006 Contributiions on politics/culture/ideology in all major dailies and journals in india; some fifty colums in ZNet;(2006-date) Activism in issues related to anti-communal/anti-fascist politics; anti-imperialist movements; womens's issues; other left/democratic praxis. less: delhi / delhi / India Awaiting authorizationMy ZSpace FriendsRecent Friends Messages
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