(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on February 17, 2023. Views expressed are personal.) Thirty years ago, in 1992, when some Hindu youths pulled down the Babri structure in Ayodhya, the liberal world was livid. Yet nowadays their own kith and kin in European capitals and American university campuses are […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on February 11, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “We will eat grass, even go hungry,” Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, as foreign minister in Ayub Khan’s government in Pakistan, famously declared in 1964, insisting that his country would […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on January 28, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) At 100, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is facing its worst crisis of credibility. Proliferation of channels, disinterest in the government over budgetary spending, revenue losses and job […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on January 14, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Most leaders reacted to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s interview without reading it. It was not only a comprehensive interview, but also a very forward-looking one. Partial reporting gave […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on December 31, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In September 2014, in his first meeting with President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about making the US a principal partner “in the realisation of India’s […]
(The article was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on December 25, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Atal Bihari Vajpayee – the very name invokes warm sentiments of goodwill across political and social spectrums. The world has seen many leaders. For some, leadership is a legacy handed down. They are born as leaders. […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on December 17, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The recent scuffle at Yangtse near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on December 9 was dubbed by many as the “new normal” for India in dealing with China on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). But is this really new? […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on December 5, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Diplomacy generally means sophistication and statesmanship. If diplomacy were to be identified with its antonyms like impoliteness and rudeness, one country that comes to mind is China. Over the years, its diplomats have acquired a reputation […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on December 4, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) On December 6, 1273, a famous Catholic saint, Thomas Aquinas, went into a final trance. Aquinas is remembered for his medieval endeavour to inject rationalism into Catholic theology. Reason and reform were the core of Thomistic thought. After facing […]
(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on November 26, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US senator who served also as ambassador to India in the 1970s, once made a profound quip that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts”. Unfortunately, most of us […]
