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Trump's Antic Disposition May Lead the Globe to Ruin

yesterday 4

The Wire

Badri Raina

Those Who Outrage Over Ramesh Bidhuri’s Sexist Remarks Miss the Point

There is a disingenuous outcry against statements made by the honourable Ramesh Bidhuri of the “party with a difference.” The former MP had said...

07.01.2025 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Manmohan Singh: He Delivered Big Without Quarrelling with His Tools

Comparisons, they say, are odious, but they are made all the time. Nobody has made them more than the right-wing establishment of the past ten or...

02.01.2025 7

The Wire

Badri Raina

The Ambedkar Millstone Around the Sanatan Neck

When the honourable Union home minister blurted “Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar” in parliament last week, it was as though he had finally...

25.12.2024 50

The Wire

Badri Raina

A ‘Double Engine’ That Will Join 2047 With 1947

I never could decipher why a football team in America came to christen themselves the ‘San Francisco 49ers’. But why we Bharatis could now be...

06.12.2024 3

The Wire

Badri Raina

The Cat Is Out of the Horse's Mouth

Long before there was America, there was Sanatana Dharma. Long before there was Niccolo Machiavelli, there was Chanakya. Long before there was Elon...

17.11.2024 3

The Wire

Badri Raina

Would Narendra Modi Consider Dr B.R. Ambedkar an 'Urban Naxal'?

At the conclusion of the drafting of the Indian constitution, the chairman of the drafting committee, and its chief architect, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar...

08.11.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Secularism Is Dead, Long Live Secularism

Just to recapitulate some famous constitutional sayings: Quite recently, an honourable Justice of the Supreme Court observed that secularism is the...

04.11.2024 2

The Wire

Badri Raina

The Electorate Restores Kashmiri Identity But Will the ‘Nationalists’ Take Heed?

In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the Partition...

10.10.2024 6

The Wire

Badri Raina

One Nation, One Election, One Party, One Leader

Was there a more ominously forgettable idea spawned in independent India that all governments once elected simultaneously must be made independent...

23.09.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Farewell Comrade Sita, Communist in Head and Heart

Knowing as he did that our study of Marx and Marxist scholarship has taught us more comprehensively of the dynamics of historical transformations,...

13.09.2024 4

The Wire

Badri Raina

Individual Liberty and the SC Verdict on PMLA

In a purposefully detailed judgment on the grant of bail to a citizen accused under the draconian Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the Supreme...

03.09.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Kashmir’s Assembly: Light, Bright and Sparkling, with no Burdens of Governance

Good times are coming boys, good times are coming. The discarded assembly complex in Srinagar is being spruced up. Elections are round the corner ,...

16.08.2024 2

The Wire

Badri Raina

We Can Dump Friends But Not Neighbours

Here are some straightforward reasons why the Indian establishment of the day liked the Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh. For the most part, it...

09.08.2024 20

The Wire

Badri Raina