(The article was originally published by Dainik Bhaskar on October 8, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) आज देश की प्रथम नागरिक एक आदिवासी महिला हैं, जिन्होंने दलित राष्ट्रपति का स्थान लिया है। सरकार, न्यायपालिका और प्रशासन में मुस्लिम, ईसाई, अन्य अल्पसंख्यक उच्च पदों पर हैं। सिख बहुसंख्या वाले राज्य पंजाब में सिख मुख्यमंत्री हैं। नगालैंड, […]
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Looking past propaganda: Why India’s minority groups are not in danger
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on October 8, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) India’s first citizen is an “Adivasi” woman from one of the remotest tribal areas in eastern India who succeeded a “Dalit” president. Muslims, Christians and other “minorities” hold […]
Gandhi’s Sacrifice
(The article was originally published in OPEN Magazine on October 2, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) On his 75th birthday, October 2, 1944, Mahatma Gandhi received one moving message from Albert Einstein. He described Gandhi as “a leader of his people, unsupported by any outward authority; a politician whose success rests not upon craft, nor upon […]
New Order with a Blend of Western Liberalism and Eastern Civilizational Nationalism
(The article was originally published by Institut Montaigne on September 27, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The conflict in Ukraine has begun reshaping the global order. Ram Madhav, Former National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of the Governing Council of India Foundation, questions the legitimacy of the Western leadership model for […]
Netaji’s contribution to the freedom struggle is no less than that of Gandhi and Congress
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on September 10, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s fortnightly column called ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Rajpath, the 1911-vintage Kingsway built to welcome King George V, became Kartavya Path. A tall black-stone statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]
India and South Korea – Ancient Friendship Forgotten
(The article was originally published by Chintan-India Foundation Blogs on September 14, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) Musings on my recent travels to South Korea Gimhae is an ancient city in South Korea. It was the capital of the Geumgwan Gaya kingdom – one of the three ancient kingdoms of Korea. Gaya kingdom has a […]
शी जिनपिंग – माओ की तानाशाही और स्टालिन की क्रूरता का एक घातक संयोजन
(The article was originally published in Haribhoomi on September 13, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) “राम माधव लिखते हैं, ‘चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के महासचिव शी जिनपिंग ने अपने पूर्ववर्तियों के लोकतांत्रिक संयम को खत्म कर दिया है. दुनिया को एक चीनी सर्दियों के लिए खुद को तैयार करना चाहिए जो बेहद गर्म हो सकता है” […]
Undoing Deng, Xi returns to Mao’s coterie, Stalin’s brutality
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on September 10, 2022 as a part of Dr Madhav’s fortnightly column called ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Ten years ago, when Xi Jinping rose to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), some called him China’s Mikhail Gorbachev.Many hoped that he […]
An Agenda for Living Together
(They article was originally published in the India Foundation Journal on August 31, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) India is a land of extreme diversity – in language, social order, cuisine, customs and religion. Over millennia, it mastered the art of managing that diversity and maintaining unity. “Samaano Mantrah Samitih Samaani Samaanam Manas Saha-Chittamesham” – […]
RSS and Freedom Movement
(The article was originally published in Malayala Manorama Magazine on August 15, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) India’s independence movement had many small and big streams flowing parallel to each other. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) too was one such stream. Dr K B Hedgewar, the founder of RSS was a prominent Congress leader in […]

