(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on December 26, 2025. Views expressed are personal.) AS THE YEAR COMES TO AN END, 2025 WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR SEVERAL things like any other year. One significant event is the rise of the conservative right in the West, especially in the US and several countries in […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on December 20, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) It is more than a year since the new government came to power in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory. Eight months after the brutal Pehalgam massacre that led to […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on December 13, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) A month has passed since the deadly car bomb explosion in Delhi. Coming after more than a decade of terror-free life in the national capital, and the first after […]
Few organizations in India inspire as much loyalty, or provoke as much opposition, as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). From its early days in the dusty shakha grounds of Nagpur to its role in shaping the country’s political and cultural direction today, the RSS has been at the heart of India’s most charged battles over […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on December 05, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “You can love him or hate him, but you cannot ignore him” – The phrase was once used to describe Augustine, the 5thcentury Christian reformist theologian and bishop of […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 29, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal) Last week saw two major global events taking place in two important countries in the Global South – the G-20 Summit at Johannesburg in South Africa on November 22-23 […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 22, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal) Prime minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be in Ayodhya next week for the Dhwajaarohan ceremony – hoisting of the sacred flag – in the precincts […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 15, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) We need to find a new vocabulary to describe the near-sweep of the BJP and its allies JD (U) and LJSP in Bihar assembly elections. This result once again […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 08, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated year-long celebrations commemorating 150 years of the stirring national song Vande Mataram. He described the song as “an enduring symbol of devotion to the […]
(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 01, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The United Nations Organisation (UNO) celebrated its 80th anniversary this week. The spurt of articles seeking to project the organisation as the only panacea for the mankind betrayed a […]
