India has a huge problem with the regional narrative in the Kashmir Valley that helps Pakistan enormously India has many neighbours. But Pakistan is different. It is a neighbour that is singularly focused on harming and harassing India, irrespective of whether it benefits or damages its own interests. One former prime minister of Pakistan had […]
Ram Madhav
Indian Strategic Thought: From Kautilya to Modi
Text of address delivered at Kautilya Fellows Programme hosted by India Foundation on February 18, 2019 My topic is India’s strategic thought from Kautilya to Modi. One very important question that at the very outset I want to raise is as to whether India has had a strategic thought, ever. Scholars have opined differently. Some […]
Pulwama attack: Will take whatever steps needed to make Pakistan accountable, says Ram Madhav
At least 37 CRPF personnel were killed and 10 injured, five of them seriously in the single worst terror attack in the Valley when a suicide bomber rammed his Scorpio SUV laden with explosives into a CRPF bus in south Kashmir. Amidst call for retaliation for the Pulwama terror attack Thursday – in which at […]
Citizenship Bill: Northeast Allies angry, Ram Madhav talks of ‘middle ground’
Acknowledging the opposition and resentment, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, the party’s in charge of the region, said that both the party and the government were trying to find a way to break the stalemate. Rattled by protests across the North-East and opposition from its allies and friendly parties, the ruling BJP is now seeking […]
Betrayal of the Mahatma
There were many who had disagreements with Gandhi… but to kill him needed not just difference of opinion, but a certain type of hatred borne of extreme frustration On the evening of January 29, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi told his grand-niece, Manu: “If an explosion took place… or someone shot at me and I received his […]
संतों की इच्छा का होगा सम्मान, कोर्ट के फैसले का इंतजार : राम माधव
भारतीय जनता पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय महासचिव एवं राज्य सभा सदस्य राम माधव रविवार को कुंभ नगरी पहुंचे। यहां उन्होंने सेक्टर छह स्थित भाजपा के शिविर में पार्टी नेताओं एवं कार्यकर्ताओं से मुलाकात की। उन्होंने सरकार द्वारा की गई व्यवस्था की भी तारीफ की। साथ ही कुंभ को समरसता एवं एकता का प्रतीक बताया। राष्ट्रीय महासचिव […]
Saints’ demand of Ram Mandir will have to be heeded: BJP leader Ram Madhav
We are committed to build the temple, but the matter is subjudice at the apex court, he said, adding that the matter will be resolved soon. BJP leader Ram Madhav on Saturday reassured saints at Kumbh Mela that their demand of Ram Mandir will be fulfilled soon. “Everyone will have to heed to the demands of […]