(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 […]
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 […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 17, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime minister Narendra Modi’s warning to Pakistan that the outcome of any future misadventure – “casting an evil eye towards India” — would lead to “destruction and total annihilation” […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 10, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Doctrine” is a word mostly used in a theological sense. This word with roots in Christianity, meaning a set of beliefs or principles, soon entered military parlance and acquired […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 03, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Although we sincerely believed that “this is not an age of war”, it is everywhere — from Ukraine to Gaza, Yemen to Myanmar. It has now come knocking on […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 26, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) How do we handle Pakistan, which is hell-bent on subjecting India to deadly acts of war and terror even if they hurt its own interests? There are no easy […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 19, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir’s recent speech to the Overseas Pakistani Convention in Islamabad attracted much attention. Delivered in the presence of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and some […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 12, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) History is a complex discipline with several layers. In his famous work, 1984, George Orwell prophetically said, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 05, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) All geopolitics is regional. The growing redundancy of the United Nations and its affiliates is convincing countries that the future is going to be not globalism but regionalism and […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on March 29, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The unfortunate controversy surrounding the alleged recovery of burnt bundles of cash from the official residence of a sitting Delhi High Court judge revived the decade-old debate over the […]
