(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 21, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” warned philosopher George Santayana in his 1905 work ‘The Life of Reason’. Public memory is woefully short. That […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 14, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In an interesting report titled “Changing the conversation about religious freedom: An integral human development approach”, published in June last year, the Atlantic Council, a US-based think tank, claimed […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 07, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In May, Indian economy crossed another milestone by overtaking Japan and becoming the fourth largest in the world. It is a commendable achievement for a country that began the […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 31, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Earlier this week, I was in Budapest to address the annual conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), a US-based prestigious conservative political group. CPAC is influential in […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 24, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) Ministry is organizing a major investor summit – “Rising Northeast: The Investor Summit” – this weekend in Delhi. Prime minister Narendra Modi, DoNER […]
Are there enduring patterns in history that can shed light on today’s shifting power dynamics and the struggle for a new international order? What lessons does the past offer for the present—and the future? As the old world order fades and a new one slowly emerges, humanity stands at a pivotal crossroads. This period of […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 17, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime minister Narendra Modi’s warning to Pakistan that the outcome of any future misadventure – “casting an evil eye towards India” — would lead to “destruction and total annihilation” […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 10, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Doctrine” is a word mostly used in a theological sense. This word with roots in Christianity, meaning a set of beliefs or principles, soon entered military parlance and acquired […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 03, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Although we sincerely believed that “this is not an age of war”, it is everywhere — from Ukraine to Gaza, Yemen to Myanmar. It has now come knocking on […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 26, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) How do we handle Pakistan, which is hell-bent on subjecting India to deadly acts of war and terror even if they hurt its own interests? There are no easy […]
