We Need a New Strategic Culture India has earned the sobriquet ‘Soft State’ due to its handling of terrorism and hostile neighbours over the years. After the hanging of Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist responsible for Mumbai attacks in 2008, some commentators opined that India has now shed the image of a Soft State. Is it […]
DOES THE EUROPEAN UNION DESERVE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE? Last week in Brussels I bumped into a junior level official at the European Commission. Brussels has one of the best public transport systems – underground and overground metro, tram and bus – and our chance meeting happened in one of the overground metros. It was in […]
Text of the Speech Delivered at Bengaluru on 01-09-12 We all must be evergrateful to the All Assam Students Union and it’s leaders like Prafulla Mahonta and Sarvananda Sonowal. It was they, as young men and women some 30 years ago, who fought against the illegal migration from Bangladesh into Assam and the rest of […]
(Text of the concluding speech delivered at the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini workshop on ‘Quality Manpower for Good Governance’ on 26-05-12 at Delhi) After 60 years of experience with governance in India more and more people feel that it is not working. This system of governance is not delivering. What is after all the […]
Every child in India should have a fundamental right to basic education. With this laudable aim the 86th Amendment of the Constitution was introduced by adding Section A to Article 21 in our Constitution in 2002 during the NDA regime. The idea was mooted originally by Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, the NDA HRD Minister. […]
It is clear now. Nobody wants the Lokpal Bill to be passed in Parliament. The ruling party has always betrayed unease at the prospect of a strong Lokpal for reasons not difficult to fathom. The Opposition, although seemed committed to the idea of an institutional mechanism to combat institutionalised corruption, is apprehensive of the motives […]
They are popularly known in the North East as Reangs. They are the non-Christian tribe, whose original name is Bru. They inhabited the southern parts of the Christian dominated state of Mizoram. Being non-Christian in a Christian state had its price. Repeatedly subjected to persecution at the hands of the Mizo population as well as […]
For the text of my Speech on the above subject delivered as the annual lecture of Panchnad Shodh Sansthan at Amritsar on 25-09-11 please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/rammadhav/lecture-at-amritsar-25-09-11
Text of my forthcoming book on the UPA Government’s proposed Bill titled Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Justice and Reparations) Bill – 2011 is available at the link given below: https://sites.google.com/site/rammadhav/communal-violence-bill
by Sri Ram Madhav, Member, Central Executive, RSS 27-08-11 FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION: The country has witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of patriotic sentiments against the corrupt and arrogant political leadership of the country. Led by eminent non-political leaders like Sri Anna Hazare, Sri Ramdeo Baba and others this popular upsurge has demonstrated the unthinkable – that […]
