(The article was originally published in Indian Express on March 28, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) While drafting of the American Constitution, in Federalist Papers, James Madison raised a pertinent question – “Quis custodient ipsos custodes?” – Who watches the guardians? His question was prompted […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on March 21, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Elections to five states, scheduled to be held in April, are going to be a real test for both the national parties – BJP and Congress. Like in 2021, […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on March 14, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) India is not only the world’s largest democracy but a successful one too. It presented a model to its South Asian neighbours to emulate. In the last few decades, […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on March 7, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi penned an article in these columns earlier this week criticising the Indian government for not condoling the death of the supreme leader of Iran, […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on February 28, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Until a few years ago, we believed that the world’s worst trouble spot will be in the Western Pacific due to the exploding firestorm between the Western powers and […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on February 21, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “There are weeks where decades happen”, Vladimir Lenin once quipped. Revolutionary moments come very rapidly, and transformative changes occur in breathtaking speed. At the recently concluded Global AI Impact […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on February 14, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The Opposition has every right to question the Government on its actions. Indo-US Trade Deal, concluded last week following a telephone conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President […]
(The interview was published by India World in the February 2026 issue. Views expressed are personal.) Without strong corporate leadership, investment won’t translate into influence. If India wants lasting strategic leverage, it must pair state vision with entrepreneurial scale and technological ambition. The global order is no longer merely shifting; it is being remade. The […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on February 07, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Spokespersons of the Congress Party are not illiterates. They clearly understood what I wrote in my column last week. I not only held Nathuram Godse’s act of killing Gandhi […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on January 31, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) 78 years ago, on January 30, 1948, Nathuram Godse killed Gandhi for crimes that he believed the latter was responsible. Godse had several grievances that he enumerated before the […]
