Rajya is Strong, Where is the Rashtra? 

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 .

The real philosopher and true thinker of Bharat not India

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.

The interviewer also comes across as a wise lady. And, Mr Rajiv Malhotra, as usual is outstanding.

He is a great man doing right things for society formations in a new way of thinking.

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.

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

Vijaya Vishwanathan is an excellent interviewer. I hope she will continue interviews in the tradition of RM.

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.

Good luck on your endeavours rajiv ji. Love all your efforts to build a great bharat

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 🙂

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।

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.🙏

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!

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

Your point about the permanently established bureaucratic elite is spot on. Hopefully something can be done about these modern feudal lords.

Rajiv Ji is a gem of our Hindu culture.

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

Man ur voice should be heard on Indian media...every night

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 .

Wonderful explanation. Great work. Wish you long life and success in your work sir. We need so many more Rajivs in India. Bless you.

The Anti-Hindu news paper. You are right about the Hindu.

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..

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

🕉️🌻🙏 आपने अत्यंत आवश्यक महत्वपूर्ण विचार को लेकर विस्तृत जानकारी दी है.... धन्यवाद। आप का पुस्तक का महान भूमिका अब है......शीध्रता से उपलब्ध कराए

The second Rajiv Dixit, whom I was looking for a long time.

Very informative... I learnt about rashtra and rajya...

Bow down to Rajiv JI

Love rajiv Malhotra. Real hero.

आप दोनों को नमस्कार ।बहुत सही विषय पर बात रख रहे हैं आप लोग ।

India must become Hindu rashtra

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.

Very enlightening talk by a serious thinker. Thank you Rajeev for your valuable comments.

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.

Good to see the interviewer asking all the right questions

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.

Namaste you are truly doing great work ! You will bring true change ....

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.

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.

Make rajib Malhotra hrd minister

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.

Words are important thus India's name should be Bharat. It will change our approach to how we think.

Terrific insight by Rajiv ji. I am eagerly waiting for the book.

India needs Indian exceptionalism!

Rightly said sir. You are a genius.

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.

Great interview, as always. Thank You for uploading.

He is just genius. I think he should be in government at top level to dismantle the whole web in government institution

India needs its own platforms period

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.

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

Thanks....🙏🙏🙏

Such a informative and intellectual interview

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.

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 RU-vid 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.

Such a bunch of brilliant thoughts I always end up learning so much Dhanyavad 🙏

Joint secretaries requirements has been started from industries, numbers are less, but it has started.

Salute you Sir. Pls make available all ur speeches in Hindi.

Fantastic, Mr.Malhotra. Freshness of original ideation, on the basis of empirical work, e.g. 25% hiring from outside.

Great personality

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 amount of indepth analysis,insight put into simple words!!

Very informative

Good work

I really appreciate your opinion on Rastra, Rajya and tamasha...

you dont need millions of follower you need 1000 good followers, who can contribute but you should be heard by rest. dont restrict yourself in books, put more on videos

Shake up or do away with the IAS in India if we want a strong Rastra, this is such a wonderful idea.

Good research! keep it up!

entire Modi sarkar 2.0 should watch this video in Vigyan Bhavan

i really love that you're trying to source only Vedas. It's time to go back to the Vedas.

Reason given by Rajeev ji for coming out of corporate world was very amusing. I also simply can not tolerate people speaking bullshit.

fantastic interview, fantastic questions

Eagerly awaiting this book!

i can work for him for free for lifetime.

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.

Rightly said RajivJi, tamasha is there. It has been there, and in my personal view it is here to stay - unfortunately 🙏🏼

You are really a great Guru Rajiv ji. We need you to help us make Bharat rashtra great again.

Hello sir, Few feedback- I have a lot of pseudo liberal friends, whenever i try to give them your videos, they would complain about the length of vdos, They are watching short uninformative vdos from channel like Quint, The print and so on, Plz try to make few short vdos on important issues as well

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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.

Very informative and mind opening.

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 ..... ?

Both of Them. Its our Fame.

Rashtra is associated with Shri Ram. Without Him and His influence, there is no rashtra.

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 think it more important to understand Sri Aurobindo as with regard to the Grand Narrative of our Country.

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'.

Sir please try to come malaysia and give some kind of seminar on Sanatana Dharma and hindu culture

Well said at 3:52...

Veer Savarkar is not RSS. He is from Hindu Mahasabha which predates RSS

Rajya- Governance Rashtra - People

Govt has their own mail which is operated by National Informatics Centre which is a Government Organisation. But most Govt Servants prefer Gmail.

राष्ट्र और राष्ट्रीयता ।

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.

Send this video to pmo office for the notice of modi

thank you sir for waking us up.

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 ji. You are very tight. Somehow culture of reading and comprehending is becoming extinct. I feel the culprits are primary education system where I am afraid there is hardly any right emphasis to develop such skills and the second one is TV and internet filled with material which acts like junk food for the body and soft bed and car, motorcycle etc. For the life style. We can at least start looking deeply at our basic education system hoping that it will also bring the sense for choosing right options for developing once life.