(The Interview was conducted by the team of The Verandah Club on Shri Ram Madhav’s book “The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non-Western Worldview”. Views expressed are personal.) Ram Madhav was at his best while talking about his latest work ‘The Hindutva Paradigm’. The former General Secretary of the world’s largest […]
(The article was originally published by Chintan-India Foundation Blogs on September 14, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Musings on my recent travels to South Korea Gimhae is an ancient city in South Korea. It was the capital of the Geumgwan Gaya kingdom – one of the three ancient kingdoms of Korea. Gaya kingdom has a […]
(The article was originally published in Haribhoomi on September 13, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) “राम माधव लिखते हैं, ‘चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के महासचिव शी जिनपिंग ने अपने पूर्ववर्तियों के लोकतांत्रिक संयम को खत्म कर दिया है. दुनिया को एक चीनी सर्दियों के लिए खुद को तैयार करना चाहिए जो बेहद गर्म हो सकता है” […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on September 10, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s fortnightly column called ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Ten years ago, when Xi Jinping rose to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), some called him China’s Mikhail Gorbachev.Many hoped that he […]
At the stroke of the midnight on 14-15 August 1947, India secured independence. That moment also witnessed the tragic partition of India and birth of Pakistan. Nobody wanted it. Yet it couldn’t be averted. Four decades earlier, in 1905, Bengal was partitioned by the British. A massive movement, called Vandemataram Movement, was launched against it by […]
(They article was originally published in the India Foundation Journal on August 31, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) India is a land of extreme diversity – in language, social order, cuisine, customs and religion. Over millennia, it mastered the art of managing that diversity and maintaining unity. “Samaano Mantrah Samitih Samaani Samaanam Manas Saha-Chittamesham” – […]
(The article was originally published in Malayala Manorama Magazine on August 15, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) India’s independence movement had many small and big streams flowing parallel to each other. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) too was one such stream. Dr K B Hedgewar, the founder of RSS was a prominent Congress leader in […]
(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on August 10, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Jinnah became even more bitter as Gandhi gained in stature India’s freedom and its partition happened at the same time. On that fateful midnight of August 14, 1947, not one but two independent nations were born. It was not […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on July 21, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) There is much to celebrate in the election of Droupadi Murmu as the 15th President of India in the Amrit Mahotsav year of independence. In Murmu, the country not only has a Santhal tribal woman as the head of […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on July 12, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Indians were great warriors. From the epics to history, India’s story is full of wars and conquests. Empire building was seen as a virtue, through concepts like the Rajasuya. Over millennia, the concept of “dharma yuddh” (just war), a […]
