(The article was originally published in Indian Express on July 19, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is a forward-looking leader. Heading a consistently growing organisation that is entering its centenary year, Bhagwat has time and again indicated his outlook on how […]
Ram Madhav
Indian Express Ideas Exchange | July 2025
(The interview was published by Indian Express on July 14, 2025. Views expressed are personal.) Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav on the need for revision of voter rolls, the new BJP president, the narrative on Operation Sindoor and why economic growth should be India’s focus over the next two decades. The session was moderated by […]
His Spiritual Home
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on July 05, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) His Holiness the Dalai Lama will turn 90 this week. He entered India aged 23 and has spent the last 66 years in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, where the […]
Wake up to New World Order
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 28, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Eurasia is in a turmoil. Three major conflicts – Russia-Ukraine conflict, Israel’s Gaza operations and Israel-Iran-US conflict – are reshaping the entire geopolitics of the region. Wars don’t cause […]
History’s Warning
(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 […]
Reframing Religious Freedom
(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 […]
To $5 Trillion, and Beyond
(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 […]
Conservative Like Us
(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 […]
A New Vision for Northeast
(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 […]
The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India
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 […]