(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on November 26, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US senator who served also as ambassador to India in the 1970s, once made a profound quip that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts”. Unfortunately, most of us […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on November 19, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The global economic recession of 2008 had catapulted the otherwise obscure grouping of finance ministers of influential countries into a summit level gathering of G20 nations. In the […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on November 5, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) On November 15, the world population will cross eight billion — it crossed six billion in October 1999 and we added another two billion in two decades. Demographers […]
(The article was originally published in Hindustan Times on November 3, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) History serves the masters of the past. But historians serve the masters of the present too. That’s why Napoleon quipped that history is, after all, a “fable, mutually agreed upon”. Recently, the accession of the princely state of Jammu […]
(The article was originally published by Dainik Bhaskar on October 22, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) ईश्वर के अस्तित्व का प्रश्न पश्चिम को सदियों से परेशान कर रहा है। 1078 ईस्वी में कैंटरबरी के आर्चबिशप एंसेल्म ने कहा था, कोई न कोई वैसी शक्ति अवश्य होनी चाहिए, जो हमारे जानने की क्षमताओं से परे हो। […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 22, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Did God exist? This question bothered the West for centuries. One of the earliest arguments for the existence of God, which Immanuel Kant called “ontology”, was given by […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 18, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Although the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has attracted enormous attention, it is clear that, like in the past, this session too will be a tightly choreographed affair. With everything decided during the run-up […]
(The article was originally published by Dainik Bhaskar on October 8, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) आज देश की प्रथम नागरिक एक आदिवासी महिला हैं, जिन्होंने दलित राष्ट्रपति का स्थान लिया है। सरकार, न्यायपालिका और प्रशासन में मुस्लिम, ईसाई, अन्य अल्पसंख्यक उच्च पदों पर हैं। सिख बहुसंख्या वाले राज्य पंजाब में सिख मुख्यमंत्री हैं। नगालैंड, […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 8, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) India’s first citizen is an “Adivasi” woman from one of the remotest tribal areas in eastern India who succeeded a “Dalit” president. Muslims, Christians and other “minorities” hold […]
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 2, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) On his 75th birthday, October 2, 1944, Mahatma Gandhi received one moving message from Albert Einstein. He described Gandhi as “a leader of his people, unsupported by any outward authority; a politician whose success rests not upon craft, nor upon […]
