Ram Madhav
The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.
Articles By Ram Madhav
This election result is a positive mandate in favour of Narendra Modi
“In the turmoil of battle, the great general maintains a psychological serenity like the needles of the compass in the storm-tossed ship”, writes Clausewitz. Consciously or otherwise, the Opposition has centred this election round Modi. And the results affirm a phenomenon that Marxist social scientist William Davies describes as “the leader becomes the truth”.
UNSC action to blacklist Masood Azhar offers Pakistan an excellent opportunity to act on terror
Credit for Azhar's listing as a global terrorist goes to the Narendra Modi government. If Pakistan wishes to overcome this isolation and ignominy, it has to join the world community in the fight against terror.
A PM for the people
Dignity has been the running theme of all of PM Modi’s programmes.
Politics in Goa revolved around Manohar Parrikar, irrespective of whether he held office or not
Manohar Parrikar's greatest strength lay in his simplicity and transparency, and his reticent nature — not the positions he occupied or the policies he framed.
After empowerment, freedom and dignity
The aspirations of women in India have evolved. Policy, public discourse must keep pace.
Kashmir is ours also means every Kashmiri is ours
India has a huge problem with the regional narrative in the Kashmir Valley that helps Pakistan enormously.
Betrayal of the Mahatma
There were many who had disagreements with Gandhi... but to kill him needed not just difference of opinion, but a certain type of hatred borne of extreme frustration.
On Assam, clearing the air
The Citizenship Amendment Bill has stringent applicability criteria. It is not —as it is being made out to be — an open invitation to minority groups in neighbouring countries.
The BJP’s new challenge
Party machine has to be aggressively geared up for the election. It needs centralised inspiration, but decentralised initiative.
Despite the people
Kerala government is pitting itself against the faithful by imposing top-down reform at Sabarimala
After #MeToo, a better India
The movement has highlighted the need for workplaces to be free of harassment and intimidation. Moving forward, society must make women’s equality an article of faith
Glasnost in RSS
Mohan Bhagwat has shed Sangh’s traditional reticence. Challenge is to drive his message to the rank and file.
A suitable governor
Being a politician, J&K’s new governor can be an effective interlocutor for reviving the dialogue process.
Trolling Sushma Swaraj, a champion of nationalism, on passport issue is unacceptable
Ram Madhav writes: Trust is the basic Indian virtue that we all should imbibe. Trust our own leaders; they have attained leadership positions because of that.
Bengaluru to Delhi
Unprincipled alliance that Opposition seeks to build across the country gifts BJP an opportunity in 2019
Couple therapy
Modi-Xi meeting in Wuhan city is not centred on outcomes but on greater understanding of the other
Leader, cadre, parivar
BJP has grown on the strength of its ideology, party structure and political accommodation
No mean victory
Tripura, Nagaland election results: Much grit, a lot of planning, went into BJP storming a Left citadel, coming to power in a Christian-dominated state
Engaging to contain
Trudeau government’s tacit support for pro-Khalistan elements in the name of free speech can’t be justified. The way forward should be greater engagement with that government to sensitise it to India’s concerns.
The hesitations of history
Israel, India are natural friends. But only under PM Modi has the 70-year antipathy to Tel Aviv been overcome
