(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 8, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) India’s first citizen is an “Adivasi” woman from one of the remotest tribal areas in eastern India who succeeded a “Dalit” president. Muslims, Christians and other “minorities” hold […]
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 2, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) On his 75th birthday, October 2, 1944, Mahatma Gandhi received one moving message from Albert Einstein. He described Gandhi as “a leader of his people, unsupported by any outward authority; a politician whose success rests not upon craft, nor upon […]
(The article was originally published by Institut Montaigne on September 27, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order. Ram Madhav, Former National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of the Governing Council of India Foundation, questions the legitimacy of the Western leadership model for […]
(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.) Rajpath, the 1911-vintage Kingsway built to welcome King George V, became Kartavya Path. A tall black-stone statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
(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” – […]
