Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s address at a Webinar on “Role of Public Diplomacy during and After COVID-19” organised by India Foundation’s Center for Soft Power in association with Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on May 22, 2020 My greetings and Namaskars to all the distinguished friends present in this webinar. Public diplomacy has always […]
At the National People’s Congress meet today, the Chinese leadership may further stoke nationalist sentiments This coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be catalysing major geopolitical upheavals. There appear to be not many takers in the world, at least among the big powers, for the UN Secretary General António Guterres’ appeal on March 23rd, “To […]
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s Inaugural address at the Video Conference on “Cultural Diplomacy amidst COVID-19 Pandemic” organised but the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center, Embassy of India, Seoul, South Korea to mark the World Culture Day on May 21, 2020 Amb Dinesh Patnaik, DG, ICCR, Amb Sripriya Ranganathan, Dr Sonu Trivedi, friends from Korea and […]
Denial of 4G services, necessary in special circumstances, can now be done away with. It is time to allow J&K full-fledged political activity. The gazette notification of the rules on domicile has brought the process initiated on August 5, 2019, in Jammu and Kashmir to a logical end. The annulment of Article 35A of the Constitution called […]
India further extends it’s lockdown for the fourth phase till 31st May. Ailing economy also infused with 20 lakh crore package under atmanirbhar bharat abhiyaan which aims to make india a self-reliant country. source link
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s address at The New India Dialogues on “India’s Grand Strategy in a changing global order” organised by The Indian Futures on May 9, 2020 We are passing through difficult times and not just in the sense of the spread of this pandemic but also the effects that it is bound […]
“aadau raam tapovanaadi gamnam , hatva mrigam kanchanam|vaidehi harnam jatayu marnam sugreev sambhashanam ||baali nigrahanam samudra tarnam lankapuri daahnam |paschaadravan kumbhkaran hananam etadhi ramayanam ||” This was how Tulsidas had summarized the great epic Ramayana one verse. ‘Ram went to forests, went after the golden deer to kill, Sita was kidnapped, Jatayu killed, friendship happened […]
India has witnessed some crucial developments in Jammu and Kashmir, besides the national upheaval brought upon by the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, New Delhi brought a new domicile policy for the newly-created Union Territory of J&K —almost nine months after scrapping Article 370. This month, the security forces eliminated the top leadership including terrorist Riyaaz […]
Pulitzer’s description of Kashmir as ‘independent’ defies all logic because the region’s political status is a primary general knowledge. Like actions, words also acquire notoriety because of the situations they are identified with. ‘Lügenpresse’ is one such German term that acquired notoriety in Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Hitler’s propaganda man, Joseph Goebbels […]
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