(The article was originally published by OPEN Magazine on August 18, 2023. Views expressed are personal.) Caught between history, geography and demography, Manipur can achieve peace only by building trust. Peddling false narratives won’t help. THE NORTHEASTERN STATE of Manipur witnessed a wave of ethnic violence in May this year that continued for several weeks. […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on August 12, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Two-Nation Theory was fragile and lacklustre. Intellectually, it was hollow and far removed from objective reality. Muslims lived all across India. There couldn’t have been a […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on August 05, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) If the head of an Indian state tells you that an INOX theatre, which also screens Hollywood movies, has been opened in the state capital, or that a new […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on July 29, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) According to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first female created from clay. She was sent by the Greek god Zeus to the Titan Prometheus with a jar of evil […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on July 22, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to France to participate in the Bastille Day parade will be seen as an important milestone in the Indo-French relationship. Bastille Day is celebrated […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on July 15, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT’S intervention in what is India’s internal matter, the violence in Manipur, is bound toruffle many feathers in the country. In a session at Strasbourg in France […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on July 8, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) France is the land of revolutions. We know of three revolutions, in 1789, 1830 and 1848. But there were many short, “near-revolutions” too. They were not peaceful. They involved a […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) Not many would have understood the significance of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to set up a National Research Foundation (NRF) with the stated aim to “seed, grow and promote research and […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on June 17, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) There is palpable excitement on both sides over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US next week. He will be among the few dignitaries to get the […]
(The article was originally published by Indian Express on June 2, 2023 as a part of Dr Madhav’s bi-weekly column titled ‘Ram Rajya’. Views expressed are personal.) “2023 BC” – blared the headline of an English daily published from Kolkata. It had a picture of the saints of the Adheenams from Tamilnadu standing in the […]
