Do read this article by @rammadhav_ , written three years ago that brings out how personal rivalries, political miscalculations & competing visions of nationhood shaped communal division in India. @indfoundation https://t.co/Gnvp37eLIT

The Seed of Communalism Article by the President of India Foundation, Dr Ram Madhav (@rammadhav_ ) for Open Magazine. @Openthemag https://t.co/TYnHrECwZh

The truncation of the #VandeMataram song was the result of Gandhi's obsession with Hindu-Muslim unity, writes @rammadhav_ - - An article from #OpenArchive https://t.co/pzxFnA1DYs

🤩All kids would be crazy if they receive this BALL on this year's Christmas Get now: https://t.co/NPA19Uq91B

इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय कला केंद्र में “Bharat: That Is India – Reclaiming Our Real Identity” by Shri Abhijit Joag.” पुस्तक के लोकार्पण एवं परिचर्चा का सफल आयोजन सम्पन्न हुआ। पुस्तक भारत की सभ्यतागत जड़ों, सांस्कृतिक निरंतरता और राष्ट्रीय पहचान की पुनर्स्थापना पर केंद्रित है।

https://t.co/P4AdfHY5Dk @rammadhav_ : You can love him or hate him, but you cannot ignore him.” ... 1/8 #ColumnOfTheDay #Geopolitics #Russia #Putin #India

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ @ShashiTharoor @pbmehta @Chellaney @snyder @MearsheimerJ 🔚 📣 If this thread reaches @rammadhav_ and the wider strategic community, it is because the core argument is simple yet unsettling: you cannot build peace or design policy on caricatures. To understand Putin’s Russia — and protect India’s interests — you must start where this

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ @ShashiTharoor @pbmehta @Chellaney @snyder @MearsheimerJ The takeaway for India & serious readers 📝🇮🇳 You don’t have to endorse Putin to see why he behaves the way he does — and why Western attempts to “tame” him keep failing. Ram Madhav @rammadhav_ offers: A psychologically grounded portrait of Putin. A historically literate

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ @ShashiTharoor @pbmehta @Chellaney Where Ram Madhav @rammadhav_ quietly goes beyond global ‘Russia experts’ 🧠🚀 Most commentary clusters into three camps: Moral-legal (Snyder @Snyder, Applebaum @anneapplebaum): Putin as straightforward aggressor. Hard realist (Mearsheimer @MearsheimerJ): NATO expansion as the

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Calling out double standards without collapsing into anti-West rhetoric ⚖️ Tharoor @ShashiTharoor, Mehta @pbmehta, Chellaney @Chellaney and others have repeatedly flagged Western hypocrisy — from Iraq to Libya to selective sanctions. Madhav’s @rammadhav_ contribution is to

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ From hegemonic order to strategic autonomy: Delhi as message, not photo-op 🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 While many European and US commentators frame Putin’s India visit as “ optics of defiance ” or Indian moral failure, Madhav @rammadhav_ reads it as a signal of a fading unipolar, rule-by-lecture

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Yevgenia Albats @YevgeniaAlbats + Ram Madhav @rammadhav_: using a critic to decode the loyalist 🧨 Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats calls Putin an “extreme statist” for whom state comes first and “everything else — democratic institutions, personal liberties, individuality —

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Chechnya, Dagestan and the fear of ‘Yugoslavisation’ 🔥🧱 Where global liberals often read Chechnya and Dagestan only as brutality, Madhav @rammadhav_ situates them in Putin’s supreme anxiety: that Russia might fragment like Yugoslavia. When Yeltsin tells him, “Volodya, take

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Quoting Kissinger, critiquing Gorbachev: a very different memory of 1991 🧩 Many Western columnists treat Putin’s famous line about the fall of the USSR as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” as pure imperial nostalgia. Madhav @rammadhav_ nuances it: Putin, citing

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Glasnost, Dresden, NATO: the origin story of a grudge 🌐🛰️ In much Western writing, Gorbachev’s glasnost is heroic reform and the USSR’s end is a moral necessity. Madhav @rammadhav_ foregrounds how Putin experienced that era in Dresden: watching the system implode while spying

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ ‘Derzhavnik’ vs ‘Liberal Imperialism’ – why the term matters 🏛️ Where Western discourse throws labels like “neo-czar”, “dictator”, “imperialist”, Madhav @rammadhav_ uses a specifically Russian category: derzhavnik — “those who believe in Russian greatness” and grow into hardline

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Putin’s biography as strategic code, not sentimental backstory 📖➡️🛰️ Many global commentators mention Putin’s poor Leningrad childhood, WWII family scars and KGB years, then slide back into abstractions about “authoritarianism”. Madhav @rammadhav_ does something sharper: he

@gideonrachman @anneapplebaum @Kagan @rammadhav_ Crimea, Donbas, NATO: beyond the easy binaries 🧭 Western liberal voices tend to frame 2014 Crimea and the 2022 Ukraine offensive purely as imperial aggression; “realists” like Mearsheimer foreground NATO expansion. Madhav @rammadhav_ accepts the NATO factor but goes one layer

From G8 expulsion to “I walk away” politics 💼🧊 Where many Western columnists (Rachman @gideonrachman, Applebaum @anneapplebaum, Kagan @Kagan, etc.) read Russia’s 2014 G8 suspension as shame and punishment, Madhav @rammadhav_ highlights something they underplayed: Putin chose

1️⃣ Why the West keeps misreading “Volodya” 🔍🇷🇺🇮🇳 Ram Madhav @rammadhav_ argues that you can love Putin or hate him, but you cannot ignore a leader forged in Soviet collapse, KGB training and civilisational hurt — and that Western elites still don’t “read” this personality

A lesson in History - remarkable article by Shri @rammadhav_ ji On recent Putin visit. https://t.co/FfD2RTNOxr.