Sifting truth from hype is now a patriotic task. Look how the BJP's Assam win was pitched as an India-shaking success.
At long last, we are catching up / With the pioneers who made / Of America what it is— We are digging for gold.
BY Badri Raina 20 October 2013
Finally, our actions must make/ Our wishes horses, so we rideTo embrace every one’s human need; / Let that be the gift of this year’s Eid
BY Badri Raina 8 August 2013
They had great faith in the gods/Dotting the hills and dales—/Those men and women who/Are now corpses.
BY Badri Raina 14 July 2013
Dear master Frankenstein,/Why dost thou sulk in woe?/ Is there a fruit I have plucked/ That you did not first sow?
BY Badri Raina 10 June 2013
Shri Srinivasan—he a good Indian;/ He knows how in India when words are uttered,/ It is mostly keeping in mind/ Which side the bread is buttered.
BY Badri Raina 3 June 2013
As GDP soars could cricket remain below?/Yet still we pretend that corruption is bad,/When corruption has been our national goal, egad.
BY Badri Raina 19 May 2013
Thou shalt not play music; / Playing music, you say to the world, / “what joy is intended in being human”! There is the blasphemy...
BY Badri Raina 6 February 2013
Woman, if and when you bless me, / You are goddess; / When you do obey unquestioningly / My command, you are devi; / When you say, wear, think your own thing,You are whore...
BY Badri Raina 21 December 2012
Does India contradict itself?/ What if it does; its sages knew from / Sanaatan aeons that all/ Is post-modernist, nothing is true. Thus success will come only if/ You do as you do do.
BY Badri Raina 6 December 2012
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