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Election 2024 is for the Opposition to Win

As narratives are being floated with the obliging connivance of the captive media, each day is proving to be rather too long in current Indian...

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The Wire

Badri Raina

Is Narendra Modi Whistling in the Dark?

As the electoral bonds corruption issue unravels embarrassingly for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi, unsurprisingly, seems to have...

08.04.2024 8

The Wire

Badri Raina

Time for the Mother of Democracy to Be Less Indulgent Towards Her Unruly Children

Have you ever heard of a Republican or Democratic senator or member of the US House of Congress dumping their parties and crossing over to the other?...

19.03.2024 20

The Wire

Badri Raina

Citizens Must Know Who Pays Whom to Cast an Informed Vote

This piece was first published on  The India Cable  – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To...

08.03.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

INDIA Alliance's Patna Rally: Is a Great Political Change in the Offing?

In the words of the English romantic poet who died a young man full of dreams, namely Shelley, the INDIA alliance rally in historic Patna was a...

04.03.2024 8

The Wire

Badri Raina

The India Alliance May Not Be as Dead After All

The INDIA alliance may not be as dead after all as the Godi news channels – (are there any others now?) – never tire of blaring at us. Come to...

24.02.2024 20

The Wire

Badri Raina

Illicit Bonds Scrapped: People’s Right to Know Inseparable From Free and Fair Elections

Alas, all good things must come to an end. The  so-cosy bonds between well-known, albeit nameless, benefactors and Johnny-come-lately nation-builders...

21.02.2024 20

The Wire

Badri Raina

Honouring Adversaries Who Cannot Speak Is Realpolitik at its Canniest

Like it or not, you have to admire Narendra Modi’s latest monarchical gambit. At the touch of a finger tip, four dead and gone former adversaries...

14.02.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

‘Murder of Democracy’ Said Supreme Court. Nation Waits to Hear from Its PM.

The Trump-India moment is here, make no mistake. Elections are to be held but only if the establishment will win. There are a few still among the...

08.02.2024 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

The INDIA Alliance Must Forge Ahead, Leaving Nitish Kumar Behind

Yet another episode of unscrupulous trickery has materialised in Bihar. The general who had been gathering forces ostensibly to save the realm has,...

02.02.2024 5

The Wire

Badri Raina

Take Nothing for Granted, Not Even the Constitution

In an essay written some years ago, I had contended that there may be no historical inevitability, after all, that capitalism will be slain by the...

25.01.2024 20

The Wire

Badri Raina

Who Represents the Sanatan – The Seer of Puri or Shri Modi?

Predictably, the Sangh, now busy at the temple site in Ayodhya, has begun lambasting the Indian National Congress for its refusal to attend the...

12.01.2024 4

The Wire

Badri Raina

Sanatan Strikes Back: 'How Dare Modi Perform the Consecration Ceremony,' Asks a Priest

Kindly recall that I had, in my last column, as a Ram-fearing man, expressed anguish at Modi’s call to us to celebrate Diwali on January 22, the day...

09.01.2024 8

The Wire

Badri Raina

As Modi Decrees a New Diwali, Remember There's More to Indian Politics Than BJP's Ram

These are the days of bold political reclamation. Three principal axes of India’s mainstream politics seek centre-stage at perhaps the most fraught...

31.12.2023 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Many Men in One: Jagdeep Dhankhar, BJP and the Play of Social Identities in India

Post-Modernist historians like Hayden White have argued that there are no stable significations in the world we live in. Ergo, the so-called stable...

29.12.2023 20

The Wire

Badri Raina

Despite Higher Overall Vote, Congress Loses Three Hindi Belt States: What's The Way Forward?

Five odd months before elections to the Lok Sabha are due, the Congress party has lost three assembly elections in the Hindi heartland. Despite the...

07.12.2023 5

The Wire

Badri Raina

Big Blow to India’s Global Standing: We Lose the World Cup

It is a mournful time in Bharat. Our trusted partner in the Quad has stabbed us in the bat and in the ball. That too in a stadium named after the...

23.11.2023 8

The Wire

Badri Raina

Besieged by the Re-Energised 'Social Justice' Movement, Narendra Modi Discovers Karl Marx

Desperate times invite desperate remedies. Narendra Modi has quickly comprehended the moment. As of old, the Sanatan agenda of forging...

12.11.2023 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Celebrating 'UT Foundation Day' Tantamounts to Cancelling the Constitutional Rights of Kashmiris

When word came that October 31 was celebrated by state authorities in Jammu and Kashmir as ‘Union Territory Foundation Day,’ I must confess to...

05.11.2023 5

The Wire

Badri Raina

Two Cheers for the Election Commission of India, It's Time They Earned a Third

Two cheers for the Election Commission (EC) of India for gathering the courage to disallow the ruling party from taking out ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp...

31.10.2023 9

The Wire

Badri Raina

As Israel Kills Thousands of Civilians in Gaza, Remember the 'International Community' Helped It Do So

So the unimpeded bloodbath continues apace. According to latest reports from several news agencies, more than 700 Gazan civilians were killed on...

25.10.2023 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

Ganesh Ji Will Teach His 'Bhakts' a Lesson, Surely

Piety is now a fatally political thing, make no mistake. No infrastructure that may have been spawned over the last few years projects as ruthlessly...

04.10.2023 7

The Wire

Badri Raina

The RSS Chief Has Taken the Lead in Critiquing Sanatan Dharma. Why Can't Opposition Follow?

While ideologues down South, whose position with respect to the social content of Sanatan Dharma is ancient knowledge, are currently being lambasted...

19.09.2023 10

The Wire

Badri Raina

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