Interviews

(The interview was published by The Hindu on December 08, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) Senior leader and former national general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and president of the conservative think tank India Foundation, Ram Madhav, speaks to The Hindu’s Nistula Hebbar on the recent U.S. election results, and the largely post-WWII ‘liberal project’, which promotes […]

(The interview was published by Hindustan Times on October 10, 2024. Views expressed are personal.) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ram Madhav, who oversaw the party’s electoral push in Jammu & Kashmir, told HT in an interview that the National Conference (NC) was using the abrogation of Article 370 as a red herring to stoke […]

(The Interview was conducted by the team of The Verandah Club on Shri Ram Madhav’s book “The Hindutva Paradigm: Integral Humanism and the Quest for a Non-Western Worldview”. Views expressed are personal.) Ram Madhav was at his best while talking about his latest work ‘The Hindutva Paradigm’. The former General Secretary of the world’s largest […]

(The text of the interview was originally published by The Print on June 8, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) The three concepts of kafir (‘unbeliever’), ummah (a supra-national community tied by religion) and jihad (‘struggle’, often used in the sense of ‘holy war’) are hindering the assimilation of Muslims into Indian society at large, senior […]

(The text of interview was originally published by Hindol Sengupta of Global Order on January 22, 2022. Views expressed are personal.) In this set of questions-and-answers with the Global Order editorial team, the Hindutva scholar and India Foundation board member Ram Madhav argues that Hindutva is essentially a non-Western worldview which has an oft-ignored embedded egalitarianism. […]

The fifth Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) 2021 will be held in Abu Dhabi from Dec. 4-5, 2021. Chaired by the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, it will be attended by the Indian External Affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar among other top dignitaries. The event is being organised by the India Foundation under the theme — Ecology, […]

JAMMU AND KASHMIR Aditya Raj Kaul (ARK): It’s been a year since the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A from Jammu & Kashmir. Has the landmark decision really brought in any change for the common masses on ground? Ram Madhav (RM): Yes. A lot of changes. The common masses of J&K are no longer at the mercy […]

It has been almost one year since Jammu and Kashmir lost the special status granted to it by Articles 370 and 35A. National general secretary of BJP Ram Madhav tells Bhavna Vij-Aurora that the abrogation of Article 370 has led to “strengthening of the voices of India” in the youngest Union territory. It has also exposed local political leaders […]

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav speaks to The Indian Express on the LAC showdown and India’s prospects in post-Covid world. You have been talking about India’s prospects of emerging as a global leader in the post-Covid era. How do you assess the scenario now? A lot of changes will take place in the global order post Covid. The […]