Technological innovations are not going to stop. But those responsible for those innovations must remember that it was democratic freedoms and human rights that have helped their innovations flourish. They should ensure that those values survive and flourish. As Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the American Constitution, walked out of the famed […]
Ram Madhav
The Heteropolar Challenge
Ram Madhav, February 17, 2021
India needs a coherent legal framework to deal with non-state players like Greta Thunberg and Disha Ravi Greta Thunberg has done a great service to India by inadvertently exposing the toolkit through social media. While it helped the Indian Government understand the sinister nature of the external supporters of India’s farmers’ agitation, it also highlighted […]
Govt’s agricultural reforms allow for greater access to investment, job creation in rural sector
Ram Madhav, February 12, 2021
An entrepreneur invests his money, manufactures output and looks for a maximum profit from it. Any businessperson who invests money, time and energy would do the same. The travesty in our country is that a farmer, who also invests his money and energy and produces a crop has to look not for the “maximum profit […]
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Life
Ram Madhav, February 11, 2021
When K M Munshi authored the 7-part Krishnaavataara series on the life of Bhagwan Krishna, traditionalists found it demeaning to bring down the divine to a mundane level. But through that path-breaking work, Munshi helped take Hindu classical religion into the drawing rooms and boardrooms of India’s new rich and modern, to the elites and […]
Ideology and Vision of Mahatma Gandhi: Global Relevance in 21st Century
Ram Madhav, February 9, 2021
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s Keynote Address at International Conference (Virtual) on “Ideology and Vision of Mahatma Gandhi: Global Relevance in 21st Century” organised by Panjab University in association with India Foundation, Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University on 1-3 February, 2021. I congratulate Punjab University for hosting the conference on “Relevance of Gandhi in […]
Shaivism in Kashmir
Ram Madhav, February 2, 2021
Text of Shri Ram Madhav’s address at the Book Release of Hungarian translation of Swami Lakshman Joo’s works on Shaivism in Kashmir, organised by the Embassy of India in Budapest, Hungary on 28 January 2021. Swami Lakshman Joo was a great mystic scholar of Kashmir Shaivism in the last century. Born into a Kashmiri Pandit […]
In The Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century
Ram Madhav, February 2, 2021
Southeast Asia was never a homogeneous region. It is vast, diverse and widespread. The Indian and Chinese voyagers were the first to reach these distant territories – Indians went with their culture while the Chinese with their people. Arabs came later to do business and also transmitted their religion Islam in some parts. Then came […]
Gandhian Approach to Duties and Rights
Ram Madhav, January 30, 2021
All through his life, Gandhi fought for the rights of people. Whether in South Africa or in London or back home in India, Gandhi’s struggles were for the people who were helpless, politically, economically and socially. Gandhi launched major agitations against the oppressive colonists in South Africa as well as in India for securing the […]
A roadmap to reform democracy
Ram Madhav, January 25, 2021
Elected institutions must become less majoritarian, while other institutions must give voice to non-majorities and provide balance The new American President, Joe Biden, has announced his intention to host a summit of democracies in the first year of office. The growing democracy deficit in the world is bothering the world’s oldest democracy — the United […]
A New Challenge in the Valley
Ram Madhav, January 19, 2021
After DDC election results, it’s time to curb radicalism and start winning Kashmiri hearts and minds again Several weeks after the completion of the District Development Council (DDC) elections and declaration of results, the Gupkaris are struggling to form the councils. In an exuberant mood, the Gupkar leaders declared the results to be a victory […]
