“Swagat hai mere dost! Why did it take so long? We have been waiting for you for 70 years,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Narendra Modi when the latter visited Israel in July last year. Netanyahu was right. It took 70 years after Independence for an Indian prime minister to set foot on Israel, and […]
Text of address at the Raisina Dialogue on “Strategic Conversation: The Emerging Security Dynamics in the Indo-Pacific” hosted by the Observer Research Foundation in association with MEA, India on 16-18 January 2018 in New Delhi 6 Strategic Realisations for India: Realisation 1: Global Power Axis has shifted from Pacific – Atlantic to Indo – […]
Winning elections has become an art and a science these days. It is no longer just about the traditional ways of campaigning, casteism and cash. Democracy, right from the days of Herodotus, is, no doubt, the will of the people. But the ways of ascertaining the will of the people, or rather moulding their will, […]
A profound quest for eternal bliss that is yet to take its rightful place in the world Indic thought is the most liberal that the world has ever produced. This is because it is the most democratically evolved of all. It is a product of the deep contemplation of great sages and saints, their great […]
Text of Inaugural Address at the 1st Indic Thoughts Festival hosted by India Foundation and Indic Academy on December 17-18, 2017 in Goa Indic thought is the most liberal thought that the world has ever produced. Because, it is the most democratically evolved thought. It was a product of the deep contemplation of great sages […]
It was the year 49 BC and a general in northeast Italy, Gaius Julius, took the momentous decision to cross a shallow river called the Rubicon to march into the city of Rome. Roman law forbade entering the city of Rome with armies. Julius’s action led to a civil war and eventual conquest of the […]
Sometime in the mid-1980s, the then RSS chief Balasaheb Deoras had asked the assembled leaders of the organisation from all the states a simple question: “Should the RSS plunge fully into the Ram Janmabhoomi movement or allow it to be led by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas (the body of saints […]
https://swarajyamag.com/politics/swarajya-exclusive-ram-madhav-on-kashmir-north-east-foreign-policy-and-going-back-to-the-roots Ram Madhav spoke to Swarajya on a wide range of important issues, from the growing influence of the BJP in the North East and its historic alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir to the shift in India’s foreign policy You played an instrumental role in scripting the BJP’s spectacular electoral […]
Populist’ is the chosen word of invective for a section of the intellectual elite these days. From newspaper articles by out-of-business columnists to platforms like the World Economic Forum, the buzz everywhere is about populism. Gone are the days of a hue-and-cry over socialism versus capitalism or secularism versus communalism. India’s people have seen through […]
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/terrorists-and-kashmiri-separatists-want-a-dead-body-a-day-ram-madhav/story-YQUJhAyqa0TCwfzeOunuQJ.html Ram Madhav, BJP general secretary and Jammu and Kashmir in-charge, says the government is showing zero tolerance against terrorism in Kashmir. In an interview with HT, he elaborates on the Centre’s four-pronged strategy to flush out terrorists while extending a healing hand to Kashmiris at the same time. Excerpts: Q: You have said […]
