(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on May 30, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) Last Sunday, Delhi witnessed a massive congregation of tribals who came from all over the country to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of a renowned freedom fighter of […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on May 23, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nordic countries was marred by the unruly behaviour of a local journalist, Helle Lyng Svendsen. Her screams at the joint media appearance […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on May 16, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) Global developments raise an important question. Are we heading again towards bipolarity of a different kind? The hype surrounding President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week and […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on May 09, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) Bengal was once the hotbed of nationalists. It produced great reformers and patriots like Raja Rammohan Roy, Bankim Chandra Chattarjee, Swami Vivekananda, Rishi Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore and Shyama […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on May 02, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) Last week, a major debate erupted over an observation of mine at a conference in Washington DC. I talked about oil imports from Iran and Russia. I was […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express as a part of Dr Ram Madhav’s column titled Ram Rajya on April 25, 2026. Views expressed are personal.) By defeating the 131st Amendment to the Indian Constitution that was intended to facilitate implementation of the 106th Amendment passed in 2023 guaranteeing 33 percent reservation to women […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 18, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) What the Election Commission of India, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, did in Bengal for the upcoming Assembly elections is unprecedented. The election commission was transformed […]
(Text of Dr Ram Madhav’s Curtain Raiser Address at the Inaugural Session of the 9th Indian Ocean Conference – IOC 2026 – in Mauritius on April 10-12, 2026.) Namaskar and Good Evening! It gives me immense pleasure to invite you to the 9th edition of the Indian Ocean Conference here in Mauritius. This conference is […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 11, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The parliament is going to take up Women’s Reservation Bill next week in a special session. It is a historic step taken by prime minister Narendra Modi. Despite some […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 04, 2026 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Forty-six years ago, the weekend of 5-6 April 1980, saw the rise of a new political force on the horizon of Indian politics. At a shamiana complex named as […]
