Articles

Vande Mataram : The national song with a tragic journey

Ram Madhav, November 8, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 08, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated year-long celebrations commemorating 150 years of the stirring national song Vande Mataram. He described the song as “an enduring symbol of devotion to the […]

Multilateralism, after the UN

Ram Madhav, November 1, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on November 01, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The United Nations Organisation (UNO) celebrated its 80th anniversary this week. The spurt of articles seeking to project the organisation as the only panacea for the mankind betrayed a […]

Unstable World, Stable Partner

Ram Madhav, October 25, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 25, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) The 20th East Asia Summit – EAS – is taking place on 26-27 October at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. This annual gathering of leaders from 18 countries from Asia […]

Can’t Rely Only on Government

Ram Madhav, October 18, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 18, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) In recent years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is putting a lot of emphasis on enhancing India’s preparedness in deep-tech areas like artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing and green-tech. Prime […]

Diplomacy, Not Romanticism

Ram Madhav, October 11, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 11, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “The old world is dying. And the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters,” wrote the renowned Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci. It […]

A Century of Goodwill

Ram Madhav, October 4, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on October 04, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) On October 2, #RSS@100 was one of the top ten trending hashtags globally. For the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that turned 100 on that day, there cannot be any […]

Delhi to Beijing, with Caveats

Ram Madhav, September 27, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 27, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Are India-China relations on a reset mode? Strategic circles are agog with speculation ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Tianjin last month to attend the SCO Summit […]

On Our Own Terms

Ram Madhav, September 20, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 20, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Greetings and good wishes poured in from all over the world for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday. What stood out was the widespread respect he commands […]

The Critic is at Sea

Ram Madhav, September 13, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 13, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi penned an OpEd in a prestigious English daily recently, criticising the Development of Greater Nicobar Islands Project, being undertaken by the Narendra Modi government. […]

The Sangh Outside the Shakha

Ram Madhav, September 6, 2025

(The article was originally published in Indian Express on September 06, 2025 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Last week, Delhi’s elites were treated to a three-day lecture series by RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat on the occasion of the organisation’s centenary. In his usual unostentatious and candid […]