(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on December 20, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) THE RASHTRIYA SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH (RSS) HAS entered its 100th year this October. Started in 1925 by a politically and socially motivated freedom fighter from Nagpur, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (fondly known in RSS as “Doctorji”), the organisation has the unique […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on December 14, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) James Carville, the campaign strategist of Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential elections said, famously, “The economy, stupid”, a phrase that turned the tables on George H W Bush’s […]
(The interview was published by The Hindu on December 08, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) Senior leader and former national general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and president of the conservative think tank India Foundation, Ram Madhav, speaks to The Hindu’s Nistula Hebbar on the recent U.S. election results, and the largely post-WWII ‘liberal project’, which promotes […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on December 07, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) South Asia, according to the World Bank, is on track to be the fastest growing region in the world, “supported by strong domestic demand in India and faster recoveries […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 30, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The BJP’s victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections wasn’t unexpected. Its scale, though — with the BJP winning more than 90 per cent of the seats it contested and […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 23, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Three important meetings between the leaders of India and China have generated a sense among observers that the two countries are cosying up to each other once again. Prime […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 16, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) There was a futile tamasha in the Jammu and Kashmir legislature last week in the name of passing a resolution on the restoration of special status. Without directly referring […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 09, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Four years ago, in November 2020, when the results of the US presidential elections were announced, Donald Trump vociferously complained that the Democrats “stole his election”. Despite rejection of […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 02, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Calling it a “rap on the knuckles” would be too mild. What the Election Commission of India (ECI) did to the Indian National Congress, for its senseless allegations and […]
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 28, 2024 . Views expressed are personal.) “You are the future of our nation,” our politicians tell our youth. It is patronising. They do that because no politician ever wants to cede space to younger ones, until and unless, of course, his or her own […]
