Articles by Badri Raina

The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature by Julian Markels (Delhi: Aakar Books), 2012; first published by Monthly Review Press, 2003; pp 160, Rs 395.

The 'truth' about Godhra appears more clouded with the partial findings of the interim Banerjee Report. Several actors, including the Election Commission, continue to debate the propriety or otherwise of the report's release, and whether citizens will be well served by the dissemination of its findings. In all this, it is 'truth', the search for it, that ultimately makes up an individual's response as to how life should be lived, becomes a casualty.

As the politics of globalisation seeks to thrust upon the world a monolithic model of 'development', events of 9/11 have made it possible to nullify resistance a critique of that model by generating a monologic discourse about 'terrorism'.

Holding Up a Mirror Literature and Society Balzac: Mirror of Emerging Modern Capitalism by Girish Mishra; Pragati Publications, Delhi, 1999;
BADRI RAINA It is now generally accepted that cultural productions at any given point in the concrete histories of communities bear intimate relation to other areas of productive human labour. In his considerations of the nature of

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