What a dedication for the homeland. U r our legend and the icon. Our next generation children need to go through ur work, evaluation and contribution for BHARAT.
Your books have changed my perception towards Hinduism and Rastriyata . I don't know if the RSS people are aware of these books or not. India needs expert Indologists from within .
WE ARE GREATLY INDEBTED TO YOU RAJIVJI FOR YOUR HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS! MAY YOU INSPIRE MILLIONS OF HINDUS TO RIGHT THE WRONGS THAT MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE DONE TO US!
Correction. India that is Bharatam. Some people have a feeling that the British named our country as India. India is much much older than Hindustan,older than Christianity and derived from Indoz or River Indus.
You should watch another video where she was a great first time interviewer before being a part of Intellectual Kshatriya of Rajeev jis infinity foundation.
Sir what a great interview. Hope prime minister Modiji is listening to it seriously Very serious threat to India exposed very well. Dr Malhotra Sir's thoughts should be guiding principle for India
I have always loved how Rajiv ji is able to magnify the breaking India forces at every level & provide us with a much clearer view of ground realities. The portion towards the end where he talks about the lack of supply of solutions to this uprising caught me in a mixed feeling~ happy that the concept of Rashtra is getting acknowledged & also there is a concern at the lack of infrastructure to shape, modify & provide perpetuity to it. Thank you Vijaya ji for asking such significant questions.
Excellent Rajivji! I can't do anything except listen to your talks, appreciate, circulate and enrich myself. Kudos to you for your perseverance, dedication and capacity for indepth inquiry and research.🙏
Agree with every word of Rajiv ji. Government must listen to him and act considering his,wide experience. He is true to his roots best of intentions and have very extensive understanding of how other country works. It's time we start bringing the true 'Vidvaans' like Rajiv ji to advice on national matters.long live bharat and long live rajiv ji. One of the best way to get bureaucrats work is by exposing them to public and answering the public if anything goes wrong. Most of the time they are hidden behind the curtains and public really don't know them. They should also face the same faith as the politicians and must be answerable to public .
Hindu Rashtra is the only solution to save our country from breaking India forces. Secularism in India itself is Congress mischief during Indhira Gandhi's time in 1976. Our founding fathers never bothered stress on that point because when the country was partitioned on religious lines, the left over land after giving much of the land mass to the muslims was hindu, and hindus believe in peaceful coexistence with followers of other religions. Hindu Rashtra does not mean persecution of other religions.
हिंदूओ का हिंदू राष्ट्र। हिंदूओ का हिंदू संविधान। हिंदूओ का अखंड भारत। भारत विश्व गुरु बनेगा और शस्त्रों से ज्यादा शास्त्रों से राज्य करेगा। जय श्री राम।
आप गुरू हैं ....पथप्रदर्शक हैं ....आपकी पुस्तकें हमेशा द्वंद्व से बाहर निकलने का प्रयत्न करतीं हैं। हमारे ज्ञान को नए आयाम देने के लिए आप दीर्घायु और स्वस्थ रहें ...यही कामना है
How I wish PM Modi gets listen to this, get RajivJi's advise and formulate a formidable radical changes, dire need of the hour. may be Iam just dreaming though 🙂
Admire your piercing intellect and convincing arguments Rajivji ! Your tireless efforts for re establishing glory of Bharat are surely bearing fruit. Much gratitude and best wishes . Om
fascinating conversation. All Govt. Officials including PM must be made to listen, understand and follow the advises of Rajiv Malhotra or give him some important Post in The Govt..
India MAHA BARATH is ALREADY A HINDU RASHTRA , Subramanya Swamy says.... HINDU RASHTRA is already enshrined within the Indian Constitution since Independence ....👍👍👍
Naman Shri Pandit Rajiv M ji, very nicely explained the difference between Rajya and rashtra. Plz give the details of your online teaching courses for various concept or terminology which you once mentioned. I would like to learm more and more. Also please explaing betwwen Pran and breath with examples....I looked into few videos regarding this but still dont understand ..........examples are best way to explain..........Dhanywaad.
Very good video. Ppl who hv been taught since independence wrong things cannot be expected to raise these issues. Its only now that the youth and even the previous generation under the exposure to the true history with the help of tech are realising. Slowly and steadily India too will realise what we as a country need to do. Sharing this video on twitter.
India is now the second largest producers of mobile phones, under make in India, albeit under foreign brands: but we are picking up quickly in this field.
really? which brands do we manufacture for? what do we make? the outer body? because I have a rough idea about where many of the components come from. (genuinely curious not challenging you)
These are the things Malhotra is awesome for. Not those interviews he takes with other people. Concentrate on these original things. Can't wait for it.
Thank you, I request you to also bring out this talk in Hindi, so That I can share it with my elders who won't be comfortable with English. Like you said, getting traction, awakening people is also very important. Unless there's a mass movement, we may not see the support for creation of institutions that can carry out deep research.
Human efforts and DIVINE grace are essential and all Sastras give this idea for success in every aspect of life. In 70 years the %of practicing Hindus got reduced from passmark level to less than TEN %.Spirituality is must.Large scale efforts to increase %of practicing Hindus necessary...including door to door education ...External practice is not sufficient. Experts should start debating etc throughout India. RSS should include Spiritual practice also.
The ultimate guide for the Democracy and Rashtra ideology of Chhatrapati Shivaji because all the persons you mentioned are follower to Shivaji Maharaj at the ultimate.
I felt that this was an interesting conversation!! It is important to recognize the term "Desha" or Desh. Bharata Desha has subcountries like Maharastra, Saurashtra and the Rashtrakutas were a South Indian group of kings. The "Cross Rashtra" entities which go cross Desha and look to rebuild the Desha are important. When Shivaji was attacked he fled South to Tanjore and Arcot. Vijay Nagara was an important counterweight to the various Islamic invasions till it succumbed in the mid 16th century. Today, the "Rajya" needs to work with the multitude of Rashtras -- eg. Thamizh Rashtra, Andhra Rashtra, Kannada Kutas and Kerala Rashtras in the South and Kashmir in the North and Bengal in the East to build a "Rajya" for the Desha that can serve the citizens of the Desha. Interdependence across the unified Desha revolves around Religious, Political, Cultural and Linguistic Unity. We need to define "Rajya" for the Well-Being of the citizenry. Economy, Military Maintenance, Foreign Policy and today, Health, Industry, IT&Telecom, Insurance and other key requirements are cross Rashtra and the "Rajya" has to effectively address them. The discussion here use a different definition for "Rashtriyatha" which looks at the Cultural and Territorial Entity of "Bharat" which is also a valid use of the term. Since ancient times "Bharata" has been existent as a subcontinent and it is important to note the precept, "We need Rajya for the benefit of the citizens of the Rashtra" and all its constituents. Today Bharata as Rashtriyatha has evolved from its erstwhile and well laid out and beautiful Puranic Definition. Rashtriyatha has to be emphasized given the fact that India is a physically small relative to a huge population. Rajya, therefore, has to build Rashtriyatha and help the Rashtras integrate well with each other. Uniformity is not as important as Unity. This is perhaps the key lesson we learn from Gandhiji who should be considered the father of Modern India. He has taught us well what the Buddha and the Vedas and Puranas teach us. We must build on this idea of "Unity in Diversity" as a central theme in Rashtriyatha. The Rajya has to emphasize this more and more.
Rashtra is the Spirit & Rajya the body. It's mutually feeding & cannot be separated for practical application. But, Rashtra do exist even in the absence of Rajya. It's like Music, song & singer.
Rajiv ji pranam, I think swami vivekanda's works could also be a very valuable inspiration of on building and researching the concept of rastrya in the mordern context
Brilliant analysis, India has many thinkers such as this and the demand would be the formation of a think tank composed of these people. Recently I stumbled onto some TH-cam videos with Professor kapil Kumar etc then Prof CK Raju etc they should not be lone voices and one step that the Modi government can do is to give space to such thinkers. One stranglehold on Hindu society has to be the Hindu temple endowment trusts and give temples their freedom.
As always, Rajiv ji is brilliant. As I understand - As is the micro system, so is the macro system: Rastra as the soul, is collective national identity, Rastriyata is analogous to patriotism. Rajya as a state is analogous to the body. Rajakiya is governance, analogous to ego management. Maya or Tamasha is the Maya of political drama that is to be managed objectively.
This discussion mentions the untranslatable concept of "Rashtra". You did not explicitly convey here what "Rashtra" is all about. But you arose the curiosity of the audience on the same. I googled a bit and found out your thoughts on "Rashtra" as you are about to express them in your upcoming book on the grand narrative of India. This "Rashtra" concept triggers few thoughts in my mind hence this comment. Few concepts that you incorporate in the concept of "Rashtra", those are really unique, and rightly correspond with ethos of bharatiyatva. One is the concept of "interdependence". Another is the importance of "spiritual individualism" or due consideration given to spiritual progress of everyone. This is very interesting, indeed. You are really bringing a new perspective on the Bharatiyatva rooted political thought. The western thinkers take pride in the western political thought, as it got expressed in Plato's republic or in the speeches of Cicero or other great rhetoricians of roman state or in the works of renaissance era thinkers say like Machiavelli or the enlightenment era thinkers (ex. federalist papers that are important for the American democracy) etc etc. In the same line of thinking what could be very Bharatiytva rooted political concepts, or what could be India's contribution to the political thought. You thinking certainly brings new perspective, a perspective that on one hand fits well with other political thinkers from India (who were there during independence struggle of india and thereafter) yet makes unique and further contribution . I feel your Bharatiyatva rooted political thinking may help explain many things. Say for example one may wonder why despite supposedly good political and economic system why Latin america failed to deal with crime and drug related problems ( and could Latin america's problem be solved by giving due importance to spiritual upliftment of individuals). On other note, I think in initial days the Indian national congress had all the necessary potential to develop the sort of thinking that you are talking now. Indian national congress was created by many who were associated with the theosophy movement ( ex. Anie Bezant), thus those leaders were interested in Indian ethos and spirituality, but the turn of event in early 20 the century with the Russian revolution and the world wars made the congress more socialist, and over the period more and more averse of indian spiritual ethos. One other point, when you talk about this necessity of a space for spiritual progress; this reminds me the Bhagvad-gita verse "yada yadahi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata.." ...The essence of the verse points to this task of the "Avataras" or good people, the task of renaissance of the "Rashtra" whenever the "Rashtra" is in decline. And one important aspect of the renaissance of "rashtra" one can see from the work of Rama is that of reestablishing order in the tapobhumi-ashramas ( thus the safe spaces for spiritual progress) in the dandakaranya. Thus the thoughts expressed in this interview resonate at many levels. Also this interview helps to summarize the broad direction your thinking and work is going towards. This interview very nicely connects all the issues / complains that you are talking about since many years.
Yes pls Rajiv Ji. We also need grand narratives of our own. Not on a national level but among the Indians. The Chinese are together all across. We are Malaysian but we still practice the same culture.
Calling the publtc moronic is unfortunate and a gross generalisation. Poor people have voted for Modi even though their needs are still to be met, and when asked why, they replied,,,, to ensure the safety of the country . The middle class has a reputation of being apathetic while the wealthy are proactive to protect their interests. Modi's acceptance speech was inspirational...especially his reference to only 2 castes..the have nots and those who would help them....hopefully the 'rajya' will lay the foundation for a new 'rashtra'.
Essentially, Rajiv Malhotra ji's entire post retirement scholarship and output for the last three decades has been a labour of love to promote the Rashtra in the Bharat rajya and specifically, his latest Swasdeshi Indology Workshops have been directed to this objective. If we were to look back on recent history, then it could be said that Mahatma Gandhi gave a clarion call to the freedom fighters of Bharat through his seminal work under the title of "The Hind Swaraj", to rouse the Rashtra lying buried in the debris of history in order to usher in Swaraj, his definition of a Rajya in the year 1909. In 1947 the outer shell of Swaraj did dawn, but it turned out to be merely a transfer of colonial power from British hands to Indian hands. The framers of the Indian Constitution while realizing that they had merely given a legal shape to the former colonial form of governance in India with trappings of a parliamentary legislative system and also that it was in fact at considerable variance from the vision of Swaraj that the Mahatma had toiled for throughout his life, introduced a separate chapter under the heading - "The Directive Principles Of State Policy" incorporating the essential goals which had been set before the country during the freedom movement on achieving Swaraj, as the objectives for which the Constitution and governance in India would keep striving for in the long run. Tinkering with the Constitution of India is a tricky business and an elected government with a mandate for five years to fulfill promises made in the party's Election Manifesto, would hardly start its work by doing so, but perhaps a peoples' movement to address the "The Directive Principles Of State Policy" could be thought of as a means to achieving the vision of 'Swarajya" which would enable the Rashtra to emerge as an organic development.
A country is desh. Rajya is area under governance. A nation is Rashtra. Hindu nation spans the country of India, Fiji, South Africa, Nepal, etc where Hindu diaspora lives.
True sir he did take on regional breaking India parties, but also promoted breaking India regional parties down south in Telangana state and Andhra pradesh state, and now we the people of andhra pradesh are left to mercy of a person more dangerous than Hitler, only way for andhra people is to fight back, the vedic way. Observe the loss of lives and property this 7 days? No national media reported, why? Are people of andhra pradesh not part of this Rajya? Our capital is ? Our major water supply dam polavaram? Our industrial investments? Employment operations? Law and order? Too many ..... ?
pretty much everyone in India who has a cell phone uses google services or apple services. Even if they don't use the mail, they probably did when they did not come into power and had to do all the formalities of using government provided mail. They also use services like google search, maps, apple maps, gps, android, youtube, ios, windows and the list keeps going on. And it doesn't matter if you use it personally or not, even if your known uses it, that is enough to mine data on you. For example, Tejasvi Surya just pulled out his phone and did a google search to prove Prakash Raj wrong in a debate. This means he uses google services and has been using them. If 40 years from now he becomes the PM, google already has a profile on him.
well said.. each and and every details on DATA/UPSC and other issues are crisp... how to take this issues with PMO and ministers in india???? please help .
@Like Wind nikalo salo ko! but problem is modi has some chutiyas around him who might make him cautious and not want to mess with babudom. I wish he were closer to swamy. He has his own set of faults but he is nothing if not bold!
Rajiv Ji spot on Bureaucracy. But what is the alternative format? States recruit Group2 Babus and they are still worse, purely corruot and political appointments. So what is the way out, we cant leave District admin in hands of MLA/MPs in anyways.
Rajiv has been carrying out a great mission for Bharat building a solid foundation for a strong Rashtra. People's colonial mind set has to be changed after 1000 year slavery. As someone said : India did not get independence on 15 August 1947 but had change of administration to brown sahibs with colonial mindset and administration. This has to change first. But i do not see this happening under Modi, sorry to say.
Rajiv speaks truth which is bitter for west and western fallowlers. Some good things we should learn from the China about building rastra. Even being communist country it kept the west on the bay and controlled the religious conversations.
What a dedication for the homeland. U r our legend and the icon. Our next generation children need to go through ur work, evaluation and contribution for BHARAT.
Your books have changed my perception towards Hinduism and Rastriyata . I don't know if the RSS people are aware of these books or not. India needs expert Indologists from within .
Yeah RSS is very well aware of him and knows about him.
@Sujit Baruah hey how I get his books please give me related details
RSS is an old organisation and thier ways n thoughts are set. Rajiv's books should be made available in secondary schools n universities.
@@junkieefreak1266 Amazon , kindle
@@junkieefreak1266 online
WE ARE GREATLY INDEBTED TO YOU RAJIVJI FOR YOUR HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS! MAY YOU INSPIRE MILLIONS OF HINDUS TO RIGHT THE WRONGS THAT MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS HAVE DONE TO US!
The real philosopher and true thinker of Bharat not India
Are our leaders deaf or are they duffers not to heed him?
In Sanskrit the noun is Bharata and the nominative form is Bharatam.
So you should write Bharata.
Correction. India that is Bharatam. Some people have a feeling that the British named our country as India. India is much much older than Hindustan,older than Christianity and derived from Indoz or River Indus.
The interviewer also comes across as a wise lady. And, Mr Rajiv Malhotra, as usual is outstanding.
You should watch another video where she was a great first time interviewer before being a part of Intellectual Kshatriya of Rajeev jis infinity foundation.
He is a great man doing right things for society formations in a new way of thinking.
Sir what a great interview. Hope prime minister Modiji is listening to it seriously
Very serious threat to India exposed very well.
Dr Malhotra Sir's thoughts should be guiding principle for India
Rajiv Ji is a gem of our Hindu culture.
I have always loved how Rajiv ji is able to magnify the breaking India forces at every level & provide us with a much clearer view of ground realities. The portion towards the end where he talks about the lack of supply of solutions to this uprising caught me in a mixed feeling~ happy that the concept of Rashtra is getting acknowledged & also there is a concern at the lack of infrastructure to shape, modify & provide perpetuity to it.
Thank you Vijaya ji for asking such significant questions.
Vijaya Vishwanathan is an excellent interviewer. I hope she will continue interviews in the tradition of RM.
She is an IK. she has few more before with RM
Excellent Rajivji! I can't do anything except listen to your talks, appreciate, circulate and enrich myself. Kudos to you for your perseverance, dedication and capacity for indepth inquiry and research.🙏
In the words of Mohan Bhagwat. Working to enlighten and enrich oneself is swadharma too.
🕉️🌻🙏
आपने अत्यंत आवश्यक महत्वपूर्ण विचार को लेकर विस्तृत जानकारी दी है.... धन्यवाद। आप का पुस्तक का महान भूमिका अब है......शीध्रता से उपलब्ध कराए
Good luck on your endeavours rajiv ji. Love all your efforts to build a great bharat
Agree with every word of Rajiv ji. Government must listen to him and act considering his,wide experience. He is true to his roots best of intentions and have very extensive understanding of how other country works. It's time we start bringing the true 'Vidvaans' like Rajiv ji to advice on national matters.long live bharat and long live rajiv ji.
One of the best way to get bureaucrats work is by exposing them to public and answering the public if anything goes wrong. Most of the time they are hidden behind the curtains and public really don't know them. They should also face the same faith as the politicians and must be answerable to public .
Hindu Rashtra is the only solution to save our country from breaking India forces. Secularism in India itself is Congress mischief during Indhira Gandhi's time in 1976. Our founding fathers never bothered stress on that point because when the country was partitioned on religious lines, the left over land after giving much of the land mass to the muslims was hindu, and hindus believe in peaceful coexistence with followers of other religions. Hindu Rashtra does not mean persecution of other religions.
हिंदूओ का हिंदू राष्ट्र।
हिंदूओ का हिंदू संविधान।
हिंदूओ का अखंड भारत।
भारत विश्व गुरु बनेगा और शस्त्रों से ज्यादा शास्त्रों से राज्य करेगा।
जय श्री राम।
आप गुरू हैं ....पथप्रदर्शक हैं ....आपकी पुस्तकें हमेशा द्वंद्व से बाहर निकलने का प्रयत्न करतीं हैं। हमारे ज्ञान को नए आयाम देने के लिए आप दीर्घायु और स्वस्थ रहें ...यही कामना है
Delighted to hear you Rajiv ji. Good to see Vijaya doing such a nice journalistic piece. Hard to find something like that now-a-days
The second Rajiv Dixit, whom I was looking for a long time.
How I wish PM Modi gets listen to this, get RajivJi's advise and formulate a formidable radical changes, dire need of the hour. may be Iam just dreaming though 🙂
Bow down to Rajiv JI
Man ur voice should be heard on Indian media...every night
Love rajiv Malhotra. Real hero.
Your point about the permanently established bureaucratic elite is spot on. Hopefully something can be done about these modern feudal lords.
Wonderful explanation. Great work. Wish you long life and success in your work sir. We need so many more Rajivs in India. Bless you.
Great discourse Rajiv ji as always. Divine bless you.
Admire your piercing intellect and convincing arguments Rajivji ! Your tireless efforts for re establishing glory of Bharat are surely bearing fruit. Much gratitude and best wishes . Om
fascinating conversation. All Govt. Officials including PM must be made to listen, understand and follow the advises of Rajiv Malhotra or give him some important Post in The Govt..
The Anti-Hindu news paper. You are right about the Hindu.
Very informative... I learnt about rashtra and rajya...
Rightly said sir. You are a genius.
Namaste you are truly doing great work ! You will bring true change ....
India must become Hindu rashtra
India MAHA BARATH is ALREADY A HINDU RASHTRA , Subramanya Swamy says.... HINDU RASHTRA is already enshrined within the Indian Constitution since Independence ....👍👍👍
It all depends on how and who you define to be Hindu.
Make rajib Malhotra hrd minister
Very enlightening talk by a serious thinker. Thank you Rajeev for your valuable comments.
Terrific insight by Rajiv ji. I am eagerly waiting for the book.
Good to see the interviewer asking all the right questions
Really wish Rajeev ji has an important contributing role in the new govt. So much of revamping needs to be done in education and many other fields
Naman Shri Pandit Rajiv M ji, very nicely explained the difference between Rajya and rashtra. Plz give the details of your online teaching courses for various concept or terminology which you once mentioned. I would like to learm more and more. Also please explaing betwwen Pran and breath with examples....I looked into few videos regarding this but still dont understand ..........examples are best way to explain..........Dhanywaad.
राष्ट्र और राष्ट्रीयता ।
India needs Indian exceptionalism!
Very good video. Ppl who hv been taught since independence wrong things cannot be expected to raise these issues. Its only now that the youth and even the previous generation under the exposure to the true history with the help of tech are realising. Slowly and steadily India too will realise what we as a country need to do.
Sharing this video on twitter.
Good work
Great interview, as always. Thank You for uploading.
ADD HISTROY IN OUR TEXT BOOKS SINCE BC 330. GREAT AHOKA AND CHANDRA GUPTHA MORIYA.
India needs its own platforms period
Thanks....🙏🙏🙏
Very informative
Great personality
Salute you Sir. Pls make available all ur speeches in Hindi.
India is now the second largest producers of mobile phones, under make in India, albeit under foreign brands: but we are picking up quickly in this field.
really? which brands do we manufacture for? what do we make? the outer body? because I have a rough idea about where many of the components come from. (genuinely curious not challenging you)
Good research! keep it up!
Such a bunch of brilliant thoughts
I always end up learning so much
Dhanyavad 🙏
Words are important thus India's name should be Bharat. It will change our approach to how we think.
Yes
entire Modi sarkar 2.0 should watch this video in Vigyan Bhavan
Such a informative and intellectual interview
How for two years this can't came to my time line? Glad that I see it now. Hope I can do my effort at my level.
These are the things Malhotra is awesome for. Not those interviews he takes with other people. Concentrate on these original things. Can't wait for it.
Thank you, I request you to also bring out this talk in Hindi, so That I can share it with my elders who won't be comfortable with English. Like you said, getting traction, awakening people is also very important. Unless there's a mass movement, we may not see the support for creation of institutions that can carry out deep research.
Well said at 3:52...
Human efforts and DIVINE grace are essential and all Sastras give this idea for success in every aspect of life. In 70 years the %of practicing Hindus got reduced from passmark level to less than TEN %.Spirituality is must.Large scale efforts to increase %of practicing Hindus necessary...including door to door education ...External practice is not sufficient. Experts should start debating etc throughout India. RSS should include Spiritual practice also.
The ultimate guide for the Democracy and Rashtra ideology of Chhatrapati Shivaji because all the persons you mentioned are follower to Shivaji Maharaj at the ultimate.
I felt that this was an interesting conversation!! It is important to recognize the term "Desha" or Desh. Bharata Desha has subcountries like Maharastra, Saurashtra and the Rashtrakutas were a South Indian group of kings. The "Cross Rashtra" entities which go cross Desha and look to rebuild the Desha are important. When Shivaji was attacked he fled South to Tanjore and Arcot. Vijay Nagara was an important counterweight to the various Islamic invasions till it succumbed in the mid 16th century.
Today, the "Rajya" needs to work with the multitude of Rashtras -- eg. Thamizh Rashtra, Andhra Rashtra, Kannada Kutas and Kerala Rashtras in the South and Kashmir in the North and Bengal in the East to build a "Rajya" for the Desha that can serve the citizens of the Desha. Interdependence across the unified Desha revolves around Religious, Political, Cultural and Linguistic Unity. We need to define "Rajya" for the Well-Being of the citizenry. Economy, Military Maintenance, Foreign Policy and today, Health, Industry, IT&Telecom, Insurance and other key requirements are cross Rashtra and the "Rajya" has to effectively address them.
The discussion here use a different definition for "Rashtriyatha" which looks at the Cultural and Territorial Entity of "Bharat" which is also a valid use of the term. Since ancient times "Bharata" has been existent as a subcontinent and it is important to note the precept, "We need Rajya for the benefit of the citizens of the Rashtra" and all its constituents.
Today Bharata as Rashtriyatha has evolved from its erstwhile and well laid out and beautiful Puranic Definition. Rashtriyatha has to be emphasized given the fact that India is a physically small relative to a huge population. Rajya, therefore, has to build Rashtriyatha and help the Rashtras integrate well with each other.
Uniformity is not as important as Unity. This is perhaps the key lesson we learn from Gandhiji who should be considered the father of Modern India. He has taught us well what the Buddha and the Vedas and Puranas teach us. We must build on this idea of "Unity in Diversity" as a central theme in Rashtriyatha. The Rajya has to emphasize this more and more.
fantastic interview, fantastic questions
Rashtra is the Spirit & Rajya the body. It's mutually feeding & cannot be separated for practical application. But, Rashtra do exist even in the absence of Rajya. It's like Music, song & singer.
Eagerly awaiting this book!
Fantastic, Mr.Malhotra. Freshness of original ideation, on the basis of empirical work, e.g. 25% hiring from outside.
Rajiv ji pranam, I think swami vivekanda's works could also be a very valuable inspiration of on building and researching the concept of rastrya in the mordern context
He is just genius. I think he should be in government at top level to dismantle the whole web in government institution
Joint secretaries requirements has been started from industries, numbers are less, but it has started.
This amount of indepth analysis,insight put into simple words!!
Shake up or do away with the IAS in India if we want a strong Rastra, this is such a wonderful idea.
Reason given by Rajeev ji for coming out of corporate world was very amusing.
I also simply can not tolerate people speaking bullshit.
Very informative and mind opening.
Brilliant analysis, India has many thinkers such as this and the demand would be the formation of a think tank composed of these people. Recently I stumbled onto some TH-cam videos with Professor kapil Kumar etc then Prof CK Raju etc they should not be lone voices and one step that the Modi government can do is to give space to such thinkers. One stranglehold on Hindu society has to be the Hindu temple endowment trusts and give temples their freedom.
As always, Rajiv ji is brilliant. As I understand - As is the micro system, so is the macro system: Rastra as the soul, is collective national identity, Rastriyata is analogous to patriotism. Rajya as a state is analogous to the body. Rajakiya is governance, analogous to ego management. Maya or Tamasha is the Maya of political drama that is to be managed objectively.
I really appreciate your opinion on Rastra, Rajya and tamasha...
Rajya- Governance Rashtra - People
Both of Them.
Its our Fame.
Rightly said RajivJi, tamasha is there. It has been there, and in my personal view it is here to stay - unfortunately 🙏🏼
i can work for him for free for lifetime.
Same here.agree totally
Contact him. You can join and train to be an IK
Rashtra is associated with Shri Ram. Without Him and His influence, there is no rashtra.
This discussion mentions the untranslatable concept of "Rashtra". You did not explicitly convey here what "Rashtra" is all about. But you arose the curiosity of the audience on the same. I googled a bit and found out your thoughts on "Rashtra" as you are about to express them in your upcoming book on the grand narrative of India. This "Rashtra" concept triggers few thoughts in my mind hence this comment. Few concepts that you incorporate in the concept of "Rashtra", those are really unique, and rightly correspond with ethos of bharatiyatva. One is the concept of "interdependence". Another is the importance of "spiritual individualism" or due consideration given to spiritual progress of everyone. This is very interesting, indeed. You are really bringing a new perspective on the Bharatiyatva rooted political thought. The western thinkers take pride in the western political thought, as it got expressed in Plato's republic or in the speeches of Cicero or other great rhetoricians of roman state or in the works of renaissance era thinkers say like Machiavelli or the enlightenment era thinkers (ex. federalist papers that are important for the American democracy) etc etc. In the same line of thinking what could be very Bharatiytva rooted political concepts, or what could be India's contribution to the political thought. You thinking certainly brings new perspective, a perspective that on one hand fits well with other political thinkers from India (who were there during independence struggle of india and thereafter) yet makes unique and further contribution . I feel your Bharatiyatva rooted political thinking may help explain many things. Say for example one may wonder why despite supposedly good political and economic system why Latin america failed to deal with crime and drug related problems ( and could Latin america's problem be solved by giving due importance to spiritual upliftment of individuals). On other note, I think in initial days the Indian national congress had all the necessary potential to develop the sort of thinking that you are talking now. Indian national congress was created by many who were associated with the theosophy movement ( ex. Anie Bezant), thus those leaders were interested in Indian ethos and spirituality, but the turn of event in early 20 the century with the Russian revolution and the world wars made the congress more socialist, and over the period more and more averse of indian spiritual ethos. One other point, when you talk about this necessity of a space for spiritual progress; this reminds me the Bhagvad-gita verse "yada yadahi dharmasya glanirbhavati bharata.." ...The essence of the verse points to this task of the "Avataras" or good people, the task of renaissance of the "Rashtra" whenever the "Rashtra" is in decline. And one important aspect of the renaissance of "rashtra" one can see from the work of Rama is that of reestablishing order in the tapobhumi-ashramas ( thus the safe spaces for spiritual progress) in the dandakaranya. Thus the thoughts expressed in this interview resonate at many levels. Also this interview helps to summarize the broad direction your thinking and work is going towards. This interview very nicely connects all the issues / complains that you are talking about since many years.
thank you sir for waking us up.
Veer Savarkar is not RSS. He is from Hindu Mahasabha which predates RSS
Sir please try to come malaysia and give some kind of seminar on Sanatana Dharma and hindu culture
Good idea bro. We need to take some drastic measures
Yes pls Rajiv Ji. We also need grand narratives of our own. Not on a national level but among the Indians. The Chinese are together all across. We are Malaysian but we still practice the same culture.
Calling the publtc moronic is unfortunate and a gross generalisation. Poor people have voted for Modi even though their needs are still to be met, and when asked why, they replied,,,, to ensure the safety of the country . The middle class has a reputation of being apathetic while the wealthy are proactive to protect their interests. Modi's acceptance speech was inspirational...especially his reference to only 2 castes..the have nots and those who would help them....hopefully the 'rajya' will lay the foundation for a new 'rashtra'.
Essentially, Rajiv Malhotra ji's entire post retirement scholarship and output for the last three decades has been a labour of love to promote the Rashtra in the Bharat rajya and specifically, his latest Swasdeshi Indology Workshops have been directed to this objective.
If we were to look back on recent history, then it could be said that Mahatma Gandhi gave a clarion call to the freedom fighters of Bharat through his seminal work under the title of "The Hind Swaraj", to rouse the Rashtra lying buried in the debris of history in order to usher in Swaraj, his definition of a Rajya in the year 1909.
In 1947 the outer shell of Swaraj did dawn, but it turned out to be merely a transfer of colonial power from British hands to Indian hands. The framers of the Indian Constitution while realizing that they had merely given a legal shape to the former colonial form of governance in India with trappings of a parliamentary legislative system and also that it was in fact at considerable variance from the vision of Swaraj that the Mahatma had toiled for throughout his life, introduced a separate chapter under the heading - "The Directive Principles Of State Policy" incorporating the essential goals which had been set before the country during the freedom movement on achieving Swaraj, as the objectives for which the Constitution and governance in India would keep striving for in the long run.
Tinkering with the Constitution of India is a tricky business and an elected government with a mandate for five years to fulfill promises made in the party's Election Manifesto, would hardly start its work by doing so, but perhaps a peoples' movement to address the "The Directive Principles Of State Policy" could be thought of as a means to achieving the vision of 'Swarajya" which would enable the Rashtra to emerge as an organic development.
A country is desh. Rajya is area under governance. A nation is Rashtra. Hindu nation spans the country of India, Fiji, South Africa, Nepal, etc where Hindu diaspora lives.
i really love that you're trying to source only Vedas. It's time to go back to the Vedas.
True sir he did take on regional breaking India parties, but also promoted breaking India regional parties down south in Telangana state and Andhra pradesh state, and now we the people of andhra pradesh are left to mercy of a person more dangerous than Hitler, only way for andhra people is to fight back, the vedic way.
Observe the loss of lives and property this 7 days?
No national media reported, why?
Are people of andhra pradesh not part of this Rajya?
Our capital is ?
Our major water supply dam polavaram?
Our industrial investments?
Employment operations?
Law and order?
Too many ..... ?
I think it more important to understand Sri Aurobindo as with regard to the Grand Narrative of our Country.
Govt has their own mail which is operated by National Informatics Centre which is a Government Organisation. But most Govt Servants prefer Gmail.
pretty much everyone in India who has a cell phone uses google services or apple services.
Even if they don't use the mail, they probably did when they did not come into power and had to do all the formalities of using government provided mail.
They also use services like google search, maps, apple maps, gps, android, youtube, ios, windows and the list keeps going on.
And it doesn't matter if you use it personally or not, even if your known uses it, that is enough to mine data on you.
For example, Tejasvi Surya just pulled out his phone and did a google search to prove Prakash Raj wrong in a debate.
This means he uses google services and has been using them. If 40 years from now he becomes the PM, google already has a profile on him.
well said.. each and and every details on DATA/UPSC and other issues are crisp... how to take this issues with PMO and ministers in india???? please help .
@Like Wind nikalo salo ko! but problem is modi has some chutiyas around him who might make him cautious and not want to mess with babudom. I wish he were closer to swamy. He has his own set of faults but he is nothing if not bold!
@14:30 onwards.. Why he is even Talking about vedic life... When it was brought to India by migrating people...
Rajiv Ji spot on Bureaucracy. But what is the alternative format?
States recruit Group2 Babus and they are still worse, purely corruot and political appointments.
So what is the way out, we cant leave District admin in hands of MLA/MPs in anyways.
Rajiv has been carrying out a great mission for Bharat building a solid foundation for a strong Rashtra. People's colonial mind set has to be changed after 1000 year slavery. As someone said : India did not get independence on 15 August 1947 but had change of administration to brown sahibs with colonial mindset and administration. This has to change first. But i do not see this happening under Modi, sorry to say.
Rajiv speaks truth which is bitter for west and western fallowlers. Some good things we should learn from the China about building rastra. Even being communist country it kept the west on the bay and controlled the religious conversations.
India needs to change like China, Singapore.
Modi the great son of Bharatmata
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