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Reframing Religious Freedom

Ram Madhav, June 14, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 14, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In an interesting report titled “Changing the conversation about religious freedom: An integral human development approach”, published in June last year, the Atlantic Council, a US-based think tank, claimed […]

To $5 Trillion, and Beyond

Ram Madhav, June 7, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on June 07, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In May, Indian economy crossed another milestone by overtaking Japan and becoming the fourth largest in the world. It is a commendable achievement for a country that began the […]

Conservative Like Us

Ram Madhav, May 31, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 31, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Earlier this week, I was in Budapest to address the annual conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), a US-based prestigious conservative political group. CPAC is influential in […]

A New Vision for Northeast

Ram Madhav, May 24, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 24, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER) Ministry is organizing a major investor summit – “Rising Northeast: The Investor Summit” – this weekend in Delhi. Prime minister Narendra Modi, DoNER […]

The End of Delusions

Ram Madhav, May 17, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 17, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime minister Narendra Modi’s warning to Pakistan that the outcome of any future misadventure – “casting an evil eye towards India” — would lead to “destruction and total annihilation” […]

To Win Without Fighting

Ram Madhav, May 10, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 10, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “Doctrine” is a word mostly used in a theological sense. This word with roots in Christianity, meaning a set of beliefs or principles, soon entered military parlance and acquired […]

How to Deter a Neighbour

Ram Madhav, May 3, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on May 03, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Although we sincerely believed that “this is not an age of war”, it is everywhere — from Ukraine to Gaza, Yemen to Myanmar. It has now come knocking on […]

Together, Against Terror

Ram Madhav, April 26, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 26, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) How do we handle Pakistan, which is hell-bent on subjecting India to deadly acts of war and terror even if they hurt its own interests? There are no easy […]

Decoding the General

Ram Madhav, April 19, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 19, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir’s recent speech to the Overseas Pakistani Convention in Islamabad attracted much attention. Delivered in the presence of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and some […]

Babasaheb, Like Gandhi

Ram Madhav, April 12, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on April 12, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) History is a complex discipline with several layers. In his famous work, 1984, George Orwell prophetically said, “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls […]