“If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow—in some parts a very paradise on earth—I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of […]
The US-India defense ties have acquired critical momentum. Given India’s geo-strategic surroundings and the downward slide in its relations with China in the recent years, this relationship is bound to move in the upward trajectory only. China and the Indo-Pacific will be the defining features of this relationship in the short and long term. Weapon […]
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s Address at a webinar organised by Wired Global Australia and India Foundation on “Quad Economics: Australia and India Perspectives in the COVID Era” on July 21, 2021 Senator Canavan, Amb Vohra, Mr Varghese and colleagues from the India Foundation and Wired Global – Akashika, Alok Bansal, Shristi and others. My […]
The story of Communist China is the story of three leaders – Mao Tse Tung, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping. Mao was the supreme leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1935 until his death in 1976. Deng worked in important positions under him, during the liberation struggle until 1949 and subsequently during […]
While Hindus, Muslims and Christians reaffirm their commitment to tolerance and religious freedom, the majority still prefer to confine their relations in marriage and friendship to their co-religionists only. In an engaging study on the religious-political reality of America, renowned journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge concluded in their book The Right Nation that the […]
A hundred years since its foundation, CPC’s ambitions threaten to jeopardise democracies the world over Four years after the so-called Third Reich was founded, Adolf Hitler delivered a long victory speech before the German Reichstag on January 30, 1937. He attributed the success of the National Socialist movement to his own leadership, which was ascribed […]
On July 1, the Communist Party of China (CPC), celebrated its centenary. The last time that such an event occurred was in 1981 when the party had completed 60 years. Deng Xiaoping was the paramount leader at that time, and he used the occasion to push through a major reform agenda. Four decades later, the […]
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s Address at a Webinar organised by Policy Exchange and Observer Research Foundation on “India and the UK: Towards new Multilateral Order” The mankind is entering a post-pandemic new world order. India and UK as ‘natural partners’ have an important opportunity in that emerging global order to prosper and progress through […]
Kashmiris have been fed on the staple of special status, autonomy, and similar rhetoric for decades. There will continue to be the echoes of it for some more time. But, broadly, the urge today is for restoration of political authority Kashmiris have been fed on the staple of special status, autonomy, and similar rhetoric for […]
There will be occasions in history when humanity yearns for transformative ideas and revolutionary action. Covid pandemic, like the great wars of the last century, was one such moment in recent history when the gross failure of the existing socio-political systems was acutely felt by the humanity. Post the pandemic, the world will look for […]
