(The interview was published by Indian Express on October 26, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) As the BJP in-charge for the recent Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Ram Madhav played a key role in ensuring its good showing. Although the National Conference emerged as the single largest party with 42 seatsout of 90, clinching a […]
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Greenback’s Naysayers
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 26, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) A week before the BRICS Summit at Kazan in Russia this week, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation released a document titled ‘Improvement of The International Monetary […]
Calling Canada Out
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 19, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Last September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made sensational allegations that his government had obtained “credible information” about the involvement of Indian agencies in the murder of Hardeep Singh […]
The Onus is on Omar Now
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 18, 2024 . Views expressed are personal.) THE UNION TERRITORY of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) got its first elected government with Omar Abdullah, chairman of the National Conference (NC), taking oath as chief minister along with five other ministers. This is Omar Abdullah’s second tenure […]
A Politics of Possibilities
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 12, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Jammu and Kashmir’s electorate has returned the National Conference to power in the recently concluded elections by giving them 42 seats in the newly delimited 90-member legislative assembly. Its […]
Hindustan Times | There is an appetite for BJP’s politics in Kashmir, says Ram Madhav
(The interview was published by Hindustan Times on October 10, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Madhav, who oversaw the party’s electoral push in Jammu & Kashmir, told HT in an interview that the National Conference (NC) was using the abrogation of Article 370 as a red herring to stoke […]
Tale of Two UN Speeches
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 5, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) At the UN General Assembly last week, two speeches, delivered by leaders of countries engaged in wars in Eurasia attracted global attention. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, talked […]
Not Just the Valley
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 28, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Two phases of elections to the Jammu & Kashmir UT legislature are over. These elections — the first since the erstwhile state was reorganised into two Union territories five […]
Governance, Above All
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 21, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Democratic politics began its journey in Athens as a negative voting system in which eligible voters, mostly landowners, were asked to “elect” citizens to be expelled from the Greek […]
The UN the World Needs
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 14, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to New York later this month to address the special global summit hosted by the United Nations on September 22-23. Ambitiously named “The […]