Just completed this 9-week short-lecture course being offered by the National University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. It is an easy and interesting course for those who want to understand the religious history of China and how the atheist China government and the CCP deal with religion in contemporary China. One thing that strikes […]
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Challenges to Global Governance
The challenge to global governance comes today from the decay of the very institutions created for that purpose some 75 years ago. This is the 75th year of the creation of the United Nations Organisation or UNO. The UN was the brainchild of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who first shared the idea with Winston […]
The Dalai Lama at 85
The many hurdles that His Holiness overcame to make India his home The tiny village of Shaoshan in the Hunan province of China is an important centrepiece of ‘Red Tourism’.Busloads of people flock to this birthplace of Mao Zedong to pay their respects to the ‘Great Helmsman’, whose 36-metrehigh statue adorns the village square. There […]
Indian Express | ‘India’s policy shift in last four-five years alerted China, Doklam was big jolt to them’
BJP general secretary Ram Madhav speaks to The Indian Express on the LAC showdown and India’s prospects in post-Covid world. You have been talking about India’s prospects of emerging as a global leader in the post-Covid era. How do you assess the scenario now? A lot of changes will take place in the global order post Covid. The […]
The People vs Democracy
Yascha Mounk’s book The People vs. Democracy is informative, but unconvincing. His arguments that present day democracies are posing a danger to the freedoms of the people sound hollow when examined carefully. Yascha’s arguments don’t sound logical also for the reason that he doesn’t hide his antipathy for nationalism and of course his dislike, bordering […]
Waking up to China’s Menacing Communist Sphere of Influence
Time to recognise and ward off CPC’s many tentacles Keywords: Communism | Cold War | Sphere of influence | McCarthyism | Eisenhower Doctrine | Communist Party of China | Xi Jinping Thought | Indian Politics Recently, the White House National Security Advisor, Robert C O’Brien was in Phoenix, Arizona to address a meeting hosted by the Governor, […]
When democracy was shackled
The “freedom” that the anarchists and their left-liberal cohorts enjoy in the country’s media and public life today is because we have leaders in the government who fought for that very freedom and are committed to liberal democratic values, not just as a matter of compulsion but as an article of faith American novelist David […]
India and South Asia: Exploring Regional Cooperation
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s address at the Virtual Horasis India Meet on June 22, 2020 Namaskar and good evening. It is a pleasure to be back at the Horasis once again. We are in the midst of a deadly pandemic. I hope and pray that all of you are safe and the countries and […]
Economic Times | Galwan incident will impact China negatively
Galwan is very unfortunate. But India will continue to engage with Chinadiplomatically and militarily, says BJP general secretary Ram Madhav in an interaction with Vasudha Venugopal. Excerpts On Sino-Indian Relationship We attempted cordial relationship with China, after the initial troubles in 2014 in Chumar. But we had Doklam in 2017, which too we sorted out. But the recent Galwan incident where […]
India Must Reduce Imports, Specifically From China: BJP’s Ram Madhav
The BJP leader further said that if people want to “boycott Chinese products” then their sentiments are to be respected. New Delhi: BJP leader Ram Madhav on Thursday asserted that India should reduce imports from other countries but specifically from China. He emphasised that India has the potential to manufacture chemicals, mobile phone parts and […]

