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A New Frontier for Regional Cooperation

Ram Madhav, May 12, 2023

(The article was originally published by The Daily Star on May 12, 2023 . Views expressed are personal.) This confluence of two mighty oceans connected by the Straits of Malacca has become the most happening region in the world in the 21st century. Indo-Pacific is the flavour of the season. With the emergence of the Quadrilateral […]

Building a partnership of equals with the US

Ram Madhav, May 6, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on May 6, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) During a recent visit to an East Asian country, I had the opportunity to meet a senior minister who asked me an interesting question: “Will India lead us?” […]

All NCERT has done is present the facts about Gandhi’s assassination

Ram Madhav, April 22, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on April 22, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) It was afternoon time on December 23, 1926, in Delhi. Swami Shraddhanand, a senior Congress leader and a colleague of Gandhi, had just returned from a long trip […]

The Caste Conundrum

Ram Madhav, April 16, 2023

(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on April 16, 2023 . Views expressed are personal.) BR Ambedkar insisted that wherever Indians go, caste follows. It may not be completely untrue. Over centuries, caste has got deeply entrenched in the Indian psyche. It is also true that some sort of a caste identity pervades […]

Maps that deceive

Ram Madhav, April 8, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on April 8, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “ALL WARFARE is based on deception”, Sun Tzu, the famed Chinese military strategist averred in his treatise. Deception is integral to the Chinese leadership’s machinations. India has been […]

Don’t Cry For Democracy

Ram Madhav, March 11, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on March 11, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Fareed Zakaria argues in Future of Freedom that democracies are hardly perfect and while there are many illiberal democracies, there are some that are excessively liberal. India is […]

Questions on Seattle

Ram Madhav, February 25, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on February 25, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) THE UNITED STATES of America is variously described as an “idea”, a “dream” or “a land of opportunities”. The American dream has attracted millions from across the world […]

The Road to India 2047

Ram Madhav, February 22, 2023

(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on February 22, 2023. Views expressed are personal.) “Jamsetji Tata was more than an industrialist—he was a nationalist with a fervour to see India ranked among the great nations of the world,” the Tata Group’s website proudly proclaims. It was this passion that drove the group from […]

How Pakistan can fix itself

Ram Madhav, February 11, 2023

(The article was originally published by Indian Express on February 11, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “We will eat grass, even go hungry,” Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, as foreign minister in Ayub Khan’s government in Pakistan, famously declared in 1964, insisting that his country would […]