(Article written in 2009) Do religious conversions – especially the Missionary conversions to Christianity – affect nationally unity? Do the loyalties of a citizen really change after conversion to Christianity? These questions can be answered only through experience only. When one looks at the first Christians who have entered India’s southern state of Kerala in […]
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Tibet: Resumption of the Dialogue is the Only Way
(Article written in 2008) China reacted predictably. It insisted that the Buddhist monks in Lhasa and elsewhere had indulged in arson and violence. It reiterated its resolve to ‘crush’ the voices of independence. It accused His Holiness Dalai Lama of masterminding the uprising and described him a ‘wolf’. The Communist Party of Tibet called him […]
Vaishno Devi Tomorrow
(Article written in 2010) The Government of Jammu & Kashmir didn’t stop at revoking the land allotment. It actually affected status quo ante by taking over the Yatra arrangements from the Amarnath Shrine Board and placing them under the Tourism Ministry. This issue, which is tantamount to literally dismantling the Shrine Board, has somehow been […]
Politicisation of Indian Culture
(Lecture Delivered at the Rotary Club of Bengaluru on 12-05-09) Let me at the outset thank the Rotary Club of Bengaluru for inviting me. I am returning to a Rotary event after almost a decade. I had occasions to address the District Conferences of the Club twice before when I was at Hyderabad. […]
Samajik Samarasata (Social Harmony) – Sri Guruji (MS Golwalkar)
(This article was written in 2008 during the Birth Centenary Celebrations of the second Sarsanghachalak of the RSS PP Shri Guruji – MS Golwalkar) Three famous ideals that inspired the French Revolution i.e. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity have subsequently found place in almost all the democratic constitutions of the world including ours. Liberty and Equality […]
Kandhamal Raises the Big Question on Conversions Yet Again
(Article written in 2009) For days, one TV Channel ran visuals of how the Christians have been targeted for violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district. Several other so-called national channels too joined the chorus sufficient enough for Mombattiwalas (Candle-Light Activists) to plunge into the ring and declare that ‘entire Orissa’, if not ‘entire India’, is in […]
Foreign Policy with National Interest as the Touchstone – Key to National Security
(Article written in 2009) It was a couple of days after the deadly Israeli attack on a Lebanese village Kfar Kana that killed scores of innocent children, on the 31st of July 2006, that the Prime Minister of Israel chose to come out with a statement. And what a statement it was! “There are no […]
NEEDED A DIFFERENT COUNTER-TERRORISM INFRASTRUCTURE
RAM MADHAV (Views expressed here are personal) India probably doesn’t need another Central Agency by name NCTC – National Counter Terrorism Center – a name borrowed from the Center that has been established in the US after 9/11. As it always happens Chidambaram, as Home Minister, became enamored of the idea of replicating it in […]
The Kumbh – 13 Tragedy
Tragedy at Kumbh is shocking. May the departed souls attain Moksha. It is an uneasy feeling to know that people had to die in dozens just because of the callousness of some. This is not first time that such a big congregation is taking place in Prayag. The Kumbh last time was in 2001. There […]
My IBN Live Chat on Hindu Terror
Shinde’s remark has weakened country’s ability to fight terror: Ram Madhav at IBNLive Interaction January 23rd, 2013, 10:18 am How does the RSS react to Union Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde’s ‘Hindu terror’ comment? RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Ram Madhav, RSS Akhil Bharatiya Sah Sampark Pramukh. […]