(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 30, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The BJP’s victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections wasn’t unexpected. Its scale, though — with the BJP winning more than 90 per cent of the seats it contested and […]
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Reading The Thaw
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 23, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Three important meetings between the leaders of India and China have generated a sense among observers that the two countries are cosying up to each other once again. Prime […]
Don’t cry over Article 370
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 16, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) There was a futile tamasha in the Jammu and Kashmir legislature last week in the name of passing a resolution on the restoration of special status. Without directly referring […]
He’s back with a Vengeance
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 09, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Four years ago, in November 2020, when the results of the US presidential elections were announced, Donald Trump vociferously complained that the Democrats “stole his election”. Despite rejection of […]
Don’t Blame it on the EVM
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 02, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Calling it a “rap on the knuckles” would be too mild. What the Election Commission of India (ECI) did to the Indian National Congress, for its senseless allegations and […]
Morals and Metahumans
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 28, 2024 . Views expressed are personal.) “You are the future of our nation,” our politicians tell our youth. It is patronising. They do that because no politician ever wants to cede space to younger ones, until and unless, of course, his or her own […]
Indian Express | ‘J-K mandate is such that a Kashmir centric govt is in place… Jammu is missing’
(The interview was published by Indian Express on October 26, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) As the BJP in-charge for the recent Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Ram Madhav played a key role in ensuring its good showing. Although the National Conference emerged as the single largest party with 42 seatsout of 90, clinching a […]
Greenback’s Naysayers
(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 […]
Calling Canada Out
(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 Onus is on Omar Now
(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 […]