(The article was originally published by Indian Express on December 17, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The recent scuffle at Yangtse near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on December 9 was dubbed by many as the “new normal” for India in dealing with China on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). But is this really new? […]
(The review was originally published by Chintan – India Foundation Blogs on December 5, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Diplomacy generally means sophistication and statesmanship. If diplomacy were to be identified with its antonyms like impoliteness and rudeness, one country that comes to mind is China. Over the years, its diplomats have acquired a reputation […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on December 4, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) On December 6, 1273, a famous Catholic saint, Thomas Aquinas, went into a final trance. Aquinas is remembered for his medieval endeavour to inject rationalism into Catholic theology. Reason and reform were the core of Thomistic thought. After facing […]
(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on November 26, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US senator who served also as ambassador to India in the 1970s, once made a profound quip that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts”. Unfortunately, most of us […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on November 19, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The global economic recession of 2008 had catapulted the otherwise obscure grouping of finance ministers of influential countries into a summit level gathering of G20 nations. In the […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on November 5, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) On November 15, the world population will cross eight billion — it crossed six billion in October 1999 and we added another two billion in two decades. Demographers […]
(The article was originally published in Hindustan Times on November 3, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) History serves the masters of the past. But historians serve the masters of the present too. That’s why Napoleon quipped that history is, after all, a “fable, mutually agreed upon”. Recently, the accession of the princely state of Jammu […]
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s Valedictory Address at the Handover Ceremony of the R20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia. Namaskar and Good Evening! What a wonderful two days of intense brain-storming over good religious values for humanity! I do not know if Pak Yahya, Holland Taylor and their team realise what a tectonic force they have […]
(The article was originally published by Dainik Bhaskar on October 22, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) ईश्वर के अस्तित्व का प्रश्न पश्चिम को सदियों से परेशान कर रहा है। 1078 ईस्वी में कैंटरबरी के आर्चबिशप एंसेल्म ने कहा था, कोई न कोई वैसी शक्ति अवश्य होनी चाहिए, जो हमारे जानने की क्षमताओं से परे हो। […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 22, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Did God exist? This question bothered the West for centuries. One of the earliest arguments for the existence of God, which Immanuel Kant called “ontology”, was given by […]
