Text of Keynote Address delivered at the National Seminar on SDGs and Integral Humanism organized by RIS in New Delhi on September 23, 2017 Through the day today, we are going to explore the various dimensions of this great concept called Integral Humanism. My job is limited to making initial comments by so called keynote […]
This Independence Day is different. For the first time in 70 years, the high constitutional positions are all held today by individuals subscribing to a non-Congress ideology. When NDA 1 was in power, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat became the vice president and Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister. But this time around, the president, vice president and prime […]
The independence struggle as a narrative of the highs and lows of our national will The revisiting of history keeps happening. There are a couple of reasons why one revisits history time and again. One reason, of course, is that we get newer information as time passes. When we chance upon a new document or […]
“We have been waiting for you, Prime Minister!” When I heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel say this to our Prime Minister at Ben Gurion airport, a three-year-old meeting between the two at a New York hotel flashed across my mind. It was September, 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making his maiden visit to the […]
TEXT OF THE ADDRESS AT THE 8TH INDIA BANGLADESH FRIENDSHIP DIALOGUE GUWAHATI 04-07-2017 – Congratulate the organisers for the completion of the 8th round of India – Bangladesh Friendship Dialogue. India values its friendship with Bangladesh deeply. It is not just a friendship. It is a shared bond of two peoples with one civilisation. We […]
GST will reset the basic rules of taxation. It is an illustration of PM Modi’s transformative reforms. Modi is on a transformative agenda, the fruits of which will be borne by this nation in a few years’ time. He is setting India’s basics right with a futuristic vision. The PM has quoted Chanakya in his […]
ADDRESS AT THE ‘YOGA ON TOP OF EUROPE’ EVENT 25 June 2017. Jungfraujoch, Switzerland Congratulations to the team for hosting this unique event. You have brought Yoga on top of Europe. The glacier on which this event is being hosted is supposed to be the highest point in the Alps mountains. Metaphorically speaking Yoga […]
TEXT OF THE ADDRESS AT THE HORASIS INDIA CONFERENCE AT INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND ON 25 JUNE 2016 I am the proud representative of a country that stands like a beacon of hope in the otherwise gloomy economic world today. As uncertainties plague global economy, India’s GDP, as per the projections of the IMF, continues to […]
His candidacy for president is being viewed in terms of his caste identity alone. This is an injustice “Maine jaise swayam safalta paayi, vaise tum log bhi mehnat karo (Just like I achieved success on my own, you should work hard for it too)”. These words of Ram Nath Kovind, the NDA’s nominee for president, […]
ADDRESS AT THE BRICS POLITICAL PARTIES FORUM 10-06-2017 FUZHOU, CHINA Brother leaders of BRICS political parties and friends. Let me at the outset compliment IDCPC for hosting such elaborate preparatory meetings in the run up to the forthcoming BRICS summit in September. We hosted the 8th BRICS summit last year at Goa. We also held […]
