(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 26, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) A week before the BRICS Summit at Kazan in Russia this week, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation released a document titled ‘Improvement of The International Monetary […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 19, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Last September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made sensational allegations that his government had obtained “credible information” about the involvement of Indian agencies in the murder of Hardeep Singh […]
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 18, 2024 . Views expressed are personal.) THE UNION TERRITORY of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) got its first elected government with Omar Abdullah, chairman of the National Conference (NC), taking oath as chief minister along with five other ministers. This is Omar Abdullah’s second tenure […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 12, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Jammu and Kashmir’s electorate has returned the National Conference to power in the recently concluded elections by giving them 42 seats in the newly delimited 90-member legislative assembly. Its […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 5, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) At the UN General Assembly last week, two speeches, delivered by leaders of countries engaged in wars in Eurasia attracted global attention. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, talked […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 28, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Two phases of elections to the Jammu & Kashmir UT legislature are over. These elections — the first since the erstwhile state was reorganised into two Union territories five […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 21, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Democratic politics began its journey in Athens as a negative voting system in which eligible voters, mostly landowners, were asked to “elect” citizens to be expelled from the Greek […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 14, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to New York later this month to address the special global summit hosted by the United Nations on September 22-23. Ambitiously named “The […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 7, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “I can tell you that in the next two to three years — I am giving you an outer limit — the country will be free from the Maoist […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 31, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Your children are not your children,” wrote the Lebanese American writer and poet Khalil Gibran in his poem ‘On Children’. “They,” he wrote, “are the sons and daughters of […]
