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NDTV
5 days ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Even Tech Giants Can Be Non-State Actors: RSS's Ram Madhav On New World Order
New Delhi: The world in 21st Century will be multipolar instead of bipolar and would come with a new set of global institutions, non-state actors and challengers, said Ram Madhav - ideologue of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP's ideological mentor, in his new book - "The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India". "The world we are entering into will be very different from what we have lived in for last seven decades," Ram Madhav told NDTV in an exclusive interview, pointing out that while many are saying so, no one has yet defined it. "I proposed in this book that we must understand that the world in 21st century will not be bipolar. It will be multipolar and it will be heteropolar. Heteropolar in the sense that while countries will rise as important poles -- we have risen as an important pole. World recognizes that. So is Russia today. So is Turkey today," he said. The first very important change, he said, will be the rise of China "and at the same time, a decline in influence of the western powers especially America". "When I say decline, I am not at all saying that probably America will disappear or it will no longer be there as a power," he added. There are other nations that are rising as well, including India, and as long as they do not come into their own, there could be a cold war between these two power centres. What would eventually emerge is a multipolar world, where nations would play a key role in their immediate and extended neighbouhood, he said. In this multilateral world, global bodies too, would be multilateral, he said. Pointing out that China has recently announced a new arbitration arrangement for nations with Hong Kong as headquarters, he said, "What will happen to International Court of Justice in The Hague? Because now countries if they prefer, they simply can go to Hong Kong and China will mediate and solve your problems. New institutions are coming up". The new world order would also come with its own set of non-state actors and challengers -- including religious, media, big tech organizations that will become big enough players to affect sovereign nations, Ram Madhav said. "Beyond multipolarity is heteropolarity. In multipolarity you have multiple countries as rising as middle powers... In heteropolarity, non-state players of different natures will rise," he said, giving examples of Syria and Afghanistan where those called terrorists till recently are ruling. "You know, in India also, some of our people in my movement call George Soros a danger to India. Ford Foundation a threat to India. They are posing certain challenges. I don't deny that. But are they countries? Do they have armies to pose challenges? They are just NGOs," he said. But for some, even someone like George Soros could be a challenge, he said, recalling his visit to Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban had counted the billionaire investor as a "biggest threat" his country faces. "We are seeing in Elon Musk what he is doing, the challenge he is throwing to a person like Trump. This is the kind of world we are entering into where tech giants can be important players. They can challenge your sovereignty," he said. To survive in this new world order, India, he said, has to eschew romanticism and be pragmatic, break new grounds in education, research and development and hone talent.. "The government understands it. That's why government has introduced certain very pragmatic measures. I talked about, you know, strategic autonomy policy of the government. It's a very important policy at a time when the world is transitioning," he said. Today, between expectation from America and China also that India should join them, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a principled stand of strategic autonomy.
New Indian Express
21-07-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
India has to grab opportunity in new world order: Ram Madhav
HYDERABAD: Stating that the new world order is taking shape, BJP leader and author Ram Madhav on Sunday said that India has to grab the opportunity to become more powerful. 'The new world order is taking shape. It doesn't mean America and Europe will disappear. They will be there to be powerful entities of the world, but not as powerful as they had been in the past. But there is an opportunity available for India. We have to grab this opportunity. We have to think about the big picture. We cannot always be stuck in only local issues,' he said. The BJP leader was addressing the gathering after his book 'The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India' was launched here in the presence of former Ambassador to Russia Venkatesh Varma and NALSAR Vice Chancellor Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao. 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks about Viksit Bharat 2047. But what is that Viksit Bharat? How to reach there? What will be the world you see in 2047? We have to think seriously about all these factors and prepare the country. We can rise only with that kind of a big vision,' Ram Madhav said. Stating that a new cold war is on between China and the US, he said: 'During the Cold War that occurred between the USSR and Western powers, there were no other big powers in the world. Now, a huge section of middle powers is emerging and those powers will play an important role. India will be one of those powers.' He said that there are certain entities which have become bigger than sovereign nations. 'Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become a threat to sovereign nations,' he said.
The Hindu
20-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
India must shun lethargy to take global leadership role: Ram Madhav
BJP senior leader and author Ram Madhav on Sunday emphasised the need for India to assert its role in the new world order by shunning its lethargic approach to global issues. Participating in a discussion after launching his book 'The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India' at a hotel here on Sunday, he observed that India had failed to play a significant role in the world order since its independence in 1947. 'There is confusion all around, and India must understand where the world is going,' he said and stressed that becoming a 'Vishwa Guru' requires more than just romantic notions to play a role in the global order. Finding fault with the nation's lethargic attitude towards the changes, instead of craving for a seat in the UNSC, Mr. Madhav suggested that India should focus on building regional multilateralism in its extended neighbourhood in the Indian Ocean, given the failure of global agencies like the UN. He mentioned that he had made these suggestions in his book, which explores the rise and fall of great powers and the international orders they create. The book addresses pressing concerns, including the rise of China, the decline of global multilateralism, the impact of Artificial Intelligence and the challenges posed by demographics and climate change. The discussion was organised by the Forum for Nationalist Thinkers, Hyderabad, in association with BEST Innovation University. Former Ambassador to Russia Venkatesh Varma, Krishnadeva Rao, Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, Rupa Vasudevan, Vice-Chancellor of BEST Innovation University, and senior journalist Uma Sudhir participated in the discussion.
The Hindu
19-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Ram Madhav's new book to be launched today
Forum for Nationalist Thinkers, Hyderabad, in association with BEST Innovation University, is organising the book launch of BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav's The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India on Sunday at Hotel Taj Krishna here. The book makes a nuanced analysis of the various developments that have impacted the world order in the 21st century vis-à-vis India and how India has diligently created a space for itself as an indispensable entity in the rapidly changing world order. It discusses the possibilities for India in the days to come. Former Ambassador to Russia, Venkatesh Varma, IFS (Retd.) will be the chief guest for the function. Prof. Krishna Deva Rao, Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, and Dr. Rupa Vasudevan, Vice-Chancellor of BEST Innovation University, will be the guests of honour. Senior Journalist Uma Sudhir will have a conversation with the author, Shri Ram Madhav, on the book. Further details can be had by contacting D. Veera Babu at 9848559297 and Ch. Krishna Reddy at 9182552078.
Indian Express
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Ram Madhav: ‘Even with 8% growth India will reach nowhere… It needs over 10% for 20 years'
Senior BJP leader Ram Madhav's new book, 'The New World: 21st Century Global Order and India', was recently launched at an event in the national capital. In an interview with The Indian Express, Madhav speaks on various issues ranging from India's bid for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)'s permanent membership to the need for building the brand Bharat. Excerpts: India should consider its immediate neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood including ASEAN as its priority. Indians have a habit. They think that their utmost priority is the relationship with America and Europe. Nobody denies it's an important relationship. But your interests are today in your neighborhood and extended neighbourhood in the East, because that is where in fact you face China's challenge. So my point is that India is not going to get (UNSC) permanent membership alone. Whenever India gets it, although India has a rightful claim to it, another five countries will come. So there will be 10-12 permanent members in the Security Council, and assume that all 10 have a veto. Can the Security Council function with five? It is not able to function. It's not able to make a single decision. Forget about a big decision. If you want to designate one fellow as a terrorist, international terrorist, we are not able to achieve it because China will block it. India has to think beyond those institutions. That is where regional leadership becomes important. It's a very important requirement, especially in the Indian Ocean region, where India enjoys very strong natural ties. We call America our natural ally. We would call Indonesia our natural ally. When Prime Minister Modi went there, he and Indonesia President inaugurated a big statue of Gitopadesha in the main square of Jakarta. Why don't you call Indonesia your natural ally? So I mentioned to you about this romanticism of people in India in general. For example, we assume that we are already a Vishwaguru, no doubt. But for you to be really effective you have to be a strong economic power first. In the 20th century old world order, the economy was tied to trade. In the 21st century, remember, the economy is tied to technology. Our economy is growing very fast. You will see that we have reached 8% growth, which is a very good thing for India. But even with 8% growth also we will reach nowhere in the next 20 years. You have to cross 10%, 10% consistently, for 20 years. No country in the world has achieved this, but in the last 75 years India has not achieved it even in one year. If India really wants to become a big player, it has to forget everything else, and focus on the economy. So what happened in the last world order was that because of people like Hitler and Mussolini, the liberals in the West had made nationalism a bad sentiment and created a kind of a liberal international order. The new order will see a big change in that nationalism will come back as a respected ideology. Today, nationalism is making a comeback in country after country. What is MAGA or 'Making America Great Again'? It is the American version of that nationalist sentiment. China is a staunchly nationalist country today. Yes, we think China is communist, everybody knows it's very nationalist. We are also a country that takes pride in its sovereign national identity, and that same thing is happening in Europe. So one big shift will be from that international liberal attitude to a nationalist sentiment. But as a reaction, what's happening is that the liberals are going towards extreme liberalism, which is wokeism, in order to counter the rise of this nationalist or sovereign sentiment. Trump's victory of that scale he secured in the last year's election was also because of people's opposition to rising wokeism. People are scared that this wokeism will destroy our families, our whole systems. When we become big, what is it that we offer to the world in terms of a certain value system? When America became big, it offered you a certain liberal ideology, which also included western institutions, western language, western customs. When China is becoming big and influential, it's offering a kind of political system that is dominant, dictatorial. It gives you all economic goodies, but no political freedom. What will be India's contribution? Firstly, we are always a very democratic people, not because we adopted democracy in 1947 or 1950 through our Constitution. Ambedkar himself used to say that India has traditionally been democratic. So we shall always uphold democracy as a value. But together with democracy, we have to offer certain values, like family. We actually consider the whole world as a family. Environment protection is a very liberal idea in the West. Conservatives don't care about the environment, but we care about the environment. The Prime Minister's biggest contribution in the very beginning in terms of ideas and values was giving yoga to the whole world. So India has to work on those ideas. Indian intellectuals, Indian scholars, have to work on those ideas. So I ended my book by saying that this brand Bharat is something that India has to seriously think about. Otherwise, you will become a carbon copy of a developed country. I don't want to demean anybody. We have great intellectuals, but they don't give original ideas. We are happy reading here, reading there, except reading our own. The West has writers who contribute original ideas. Among the top 10 books with original ideas, not a single Indian book will be there. In R and D and innovation we are very weak. Despite the Prime Minister's great push, what we call innovation in India, I'm sorry to say, is just imitation. Wars in this century will be very different. They will be fought in a manner that at the end of the day, you will not be able to determine who is a winner and who is a loser. Because here, war is not just what you are fighting, but also what you are telling the world, what you call propaganda war and perception management. Whether the US succeeded in their real aim of taking away the capability of making nuclear weapons from Iran is the question. You claim so but there is a counterclaim by Iranians that their capabilities are intact. That applies to Operation Sindoor too. We had a decisively strong response to terror that emanates from Pakistan. But together with that, for the management of global perception, all-party delegations were sent. Domestic Opposition has been silenced now because the very same Opposition went and told the world that, no, we punished the terrorists. It's a brilliant move by the Prime Minister. As for the caste census, the Indian economy has a major welfare component today. Maybe having good data helps in implementing your programmes more effectively. So today, for example, we have schemes for OBCs. We are looking at them as a group, but they're not any homogeneous group. So who is moving forward, who is still remaining backward? Who needs more support? All these things become easy for the government if they have the data before them. So far as delimitation is concerned, I have heard the Home Minister (Amit Shah) clearly saying that there won't be any injustice done to any region or state. I'm sure whenever that is undertaken, it will be a kind of a pro-rata system or something where somebody who is performing well is not punished. Anyway, it is a couple of years away.
