(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 28, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Two phases of elections to the Jammu & Kashmir UT legislature are over. These elections — the first since the erstwhile state was reorganised into two Union territories five […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 21, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Democratic politics began its journey in Athens as a negative voting system in which eligible voters, mostly landowners, were asked to “elect” citizens to be expelled from the Greek […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 14, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to New York later this month to address the special global summit hosted by the United Nations on September 22-23. Ambitiously named “The […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 7, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “I can tell you that in the next two to three years — I am giving you an outer limit — the country will be free from the Maoist […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 31, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Your children are not your children,” wrote the Lebanese American writer and poet Khalil Gibran in his poem ‘On Children’. “They,” he wrote, “are the sons and daughters of […]
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on August 30, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) THE INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENTS of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the last five years since the abrogation of Article 370 are not fully appreciated by many. People in the government and outside confine the […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 24, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) It is going to be a battle royale in Jammu and Kashmir. The Union Territory, carved out from the erstwhile state of J&K in 2019, will be holding its […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 17, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort this Thursday demonstrated that he is in full control of the government. Dispelling misconceptions, if […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 10, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) A week ago, nobody would have imagined that the world’s longest-serving woman prime minister, a leader who was once described as the Iron Lady of South Asia and credited […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on August 03, 2024 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi appears to have chosen to be a destructive force in Parliament. His interventions in the Budget Session suggest that the Congress leader’s sole […]
