The Dharma Dispatch

Indian COMMUNISTS are the original Breaking India Forces. https://youtube.com/shorts/_77Vs3RR8hQ?si=5y2bCEDP42hu9Xgm

• Here is a Ready Reckoner of E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker’s Career of Anti-Hindu and Separatist Activism: From his Own Biography   Thanks to Udhayanidhi Stalin's outburst about eradicating Sanatana Dharma, we dug into our archives and found these excerpts from E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker's (Periyar) biography listing the major instances of his lifelong anti-Hindu and anti-India activism.   "Periyar" is the ideological father of Udhayanidhi Stalin's party, the DMK. -- We're citing only two excerpts from Periyar's biography.   1 1947 (August 15) — When the whole of India wasjubilant on the attainment of Indian “Independence” on 15-8-1947, Periyar boldly called it a ‘mourning’ day for Tamils. He called Independence of India was nothing but a ‘made over’ to Brahmins and North Indian Merchants (Baniyas) from British because the demand for separate sovereign nation to Dravidian Tamils was not fulfilled as done in the case of Muslims’ demand for Pakistan.  2 1957 — Another big agitation was started by Periyar. Brahmins used to inscribe the name in their Hotel Name-Boards as ‘Brahmin Hotel." Periyar requested all his followers to erase the name ‘Brahmin’ in the Hotel Name Boards. Accordingly a compaign was started to erase the Brahmin-Name-Board in all Brahmin Hotels in Tamil Nadu. As a result of this agitation, the name ‘Brahmin’ in the hotel name-boards disappeared. • --- Read the whole thing! 📑🛕🙏🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/here-is-a-ready-reckoner-of-ev-ramaswamy-naickers-career-of-anti-hindu-and-separatist-activism-from-his-own-biography

When Udhayanidhi Stalin declares that he wants to eradicate Sanatana Dharma, Dharma, we need to take him seriously. It is a purpose-driven statement and an ex­pression of intent. -- My latest column in Open Mag -- https://openthemagazine.com/feature/an-existential-threat/

On this auspicious Krishna Janmashtami 2023, it is befitting to read this story 👇👇👇 *A Tale of Two Gopalas* -- Jai Shree Krishna 🕉️🕉️🚩🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/a-tale-of-two-gopalas

Udayanidhi Stalin, George Soros & Co: Or The Creeping Encirclement of the Last Dharmic Civilisation   How a global nexus of anti-Hindu forces have thoroughly encircled the ancient Sanatana civilisation. The worst elements of the powerful Islamist lobby in India and its transnational supporters worldwide have declared an open war against the Indian state.     In reality, it is a final war to finish off the remnants of the ancient unbroken Sanatana civilisation that have survived…including Sanatanis.   It is a Great Encirclement, a final siege in which there are no laws and rules, only a savage, determined quest for all-out victory. -- Read and share widely! 📑🙏🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-great-creeping-encirclement-of-an-ancient-dharma

The Personal Pathology of Karna -- This is the second episode in our series examining the myth of the Duryodhana-Karna friendship.   THERE IS A SLIGHT TINGE OF similarity in the Duryodhana-Karna relationship and the Gandhi-Nehru relationship. Selfishness and messianic delusions characterised Duryodhana and Gandhi. Karna and Nehru, respectively, supplied the required fodder that kept these delusions at their optimal level of obesity. Thereby, both of them secured the prized place in their master’s inner circle and acquired free rein to run riot.   Duryodhana had a Duṣṭa-traya — a Diabolical Triad comprising Śakuni, Duśyāsana, and Karna, which aided his self-scripted drama of evil that ultimately ruined him at great cost to the nation. This is akin to the sinister cabal surrounding Indira Gandhi whose depraved counsel wrecked India and culminated in her assassination, a horror of her own making.    Karna’s loyalty was a personal loyalty exclusively reserved for Duryodhana. For him, Duryodhana = Hastinapura, just like how the vile D.K. Barooah had declared that India = Indira.    Karna’s repulsive conduct on countless occasions is the earliest and the perfect case study in the psychology and practice of Communism. --- Do read the full essay! 📑🛕🕉🪔   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-personal-pathology-of-karna

*[PODCAST] The Tragic and Forgotten History of the Prahladpuri Temple* -- Do tune in! 🙏🛕🪔 https://youtu.be/bokPJ6024_o?si=P0N_1dUructn4Epe

Duryodhana and Karna: A Friendship that Never was   This is the first episode of a series analysing the nature of the relationship between Duryodhana and Karna. --   One of the immortal and universal instances of the abuse of friendship is the miscasting of the transactional relationship between Duryodhana and Karna.    The durability of the myth of the “pure” and “ideal” friendship between Duryodhana and Karna is comparable to the myth that Mohandas Gandhi singlehandedly got India her freedom.   The worst offender in this entire corpus of literary licentiousness is the 1977 Telugu movie, Daana Veera Shoora Karna.    Duryodhana’s coronation of Karna is wholly illegitimate because it violates the most fundamental principles of Rājya-śāstra.   Karna’s coronation resembles the democratic coronation of Manmohan Singh by Sonia Gandhi.   Dhritarashtra was blind.    Manmohan Singh was mute.  ---- Do read the full piece! 📑🛕🕉🪔   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/duryodhana-and-karna-a-friendship-that-never-was

The downfall of Indian epigraphy after independence is a familiar chapter in the tragic saga of our cultural destruction directed by Nawab, Indira Gandhi, and frontally executed by Communist Party workers disguised as historians and scholars. 😔😡🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-nehruvian-and-marxist-slaughter-of-hindu-inscriptional-studies

The downfall of Indian epigraphy after independence is a familiar chapter in the tragic saga of our cultural destruction directed by Nawab, Indira Gandhi, and frontally executed by Communist Party workers disguised as historians and scholars. 😔😡🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-nehruvian-and-marxist-slaughter-of-hindu-inscriptional-studies

Dear New York Times: Eat Your Elitism. This is India's Century https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/dear-new-york-times-no-you-dont-have-any-fans-in-india-heres-why

When Diwan Purnaiah Lost and Regained his Eyesight: Glory of the Tirumala Thotti-Thirtam   In the final leg of his pilgrimage to the sacred Tirumala hills in 1872, V.N. Narasimha Iyengar recounts rare anecdotes about the glory of Srinivasa. His eyewitness descriptions of the whole thing is eye-opening to say the least. ---   The wealth of the Tirumala Srinivasa temple is considered fabulous. The managers are the Bhairagees who have got unchecked sway over the vast wealth of the institution. The chief guru of the Bhairagees is called the Mahant of the Math of Hathi Ram.    One of the sources of the temple revenues is the sale of the prepared rice.   Our Mysore Raja has founded a charity by which one gangala (large vessel) full of rich food should be daily offered to the God and distributed to the poor and strangers. There is a chatram of the Mysore Maharaja on the hill.   The Bhairagi Math people have watchmen at intervals along the ascent. They are armed with matchlocks, such as are found with the Hale Paika men of the Malnad. --- The whole essay is absolutely fabulous! Read it in full! 🛕🙏🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/when-diwan-purnaiah-lost-and-regained-his-eyesight-glory-of-the-tirumala-thotti-thirtam

Trekking the Sacred Tirumala Hills in 1872   V.N. Narasimha Iyengar departs from Tirupati to Tirumala on 16 December 1872. He gives intricate details of the whole journey, which in itself is a valuable first hand source of history. ---   THE FIRST RANGE OF HILLS presents to the distant observer the form of a huge serpent, lying on the ground with its body extended in curves. This is due to the depressions in the surface of the range. Hence the whole is dubbed Seshachala or mountain of Sesha. The sthala purana goes to say that the hills are the avatars of the serpentine god.   The dhooley (palanquin) bearers keep singing one after another in a monotonous tone. The refrains are noom and volee. The way up to the gali gopuram is exceptionally steep and difficult.   The first gopuram or gate is the aforesaid gali gopuram. There is a Bhairagi Matha here which is richly endowed with inams for feeding the pilgrims.    After a weary trudge of nearly ten miles over seven hills, the dhooley was at last deposited in front of a ruined gate. No one is allowed, out of respect to the God, to proceed in dhooley or palanquin beyond the gate. The Svami of Sringeri was an exception so far as to be able to go a few yards further. It is a rule of the shrine that no one can ascend the hill with shoes on.  -- Do read the whole informative piece! 🛕🕉🙏🪔🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/trekking-the-sacred-tirumala-hills-in-1872

Svatantra-Bhārata Abhinandanā-Stava: DVG’s Hymn to an Independent Bharatavarsha   The first episode of an English prose translation of the complete "Svatantra-Bhārata Abhinandanā-Stava." This was DVG's immortal Kannada hymn to Bharatavarsha that he wrote on the midnight of August 15, 1947. --   Few Indians could write about Bharatavarsha with such depth of feeling and accuracy as DVG has done in this extraordinary poem. Here are some excerpts.   What is Bharata? Is it merely a piece of earth or soil? Or is it a creation of the collective emotion (Bhāva-sr̥ṣṭi) of our people?    In DVG’s conception, Bharata is a Tejas (radiance). It is an innate awareness of the Ātma tatva  reflected in the beliefs, customs, traditions and lifestyles of its inhabitants. All these are reasons why the dust of this sacred soil becomes Akṣata when we sprinkle it on our head.    -- On this Independence Day, do read this poem in full and circulate it widely. 🛕🙏🕉🪔🇮🇳   Sri Rama Jayam https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/svatantra-bh%C4%81rata-abhinandan%C4%81-stava-dvgs-hymn-to-an-independent-bharatavarsha

The Tirupati Town that V.N. Narasimha Iyengar Saw in 1872   V.N. Narasimha Iyengar proceeds to Tirupati after departing from Arakkonam. The description of his journey and the portrait of the sacred temple town of Tirupati in 1872 is illuminating to say the least.   Here are some excerpts. --- After alternately walking and squatting in the bullock cart for about three hours, we arrived at the town of Tirupati, which is about six and a half miles from the railway station. The town is imbedded in a wide valley, enclosed by the Tirupati and Chandragiri ranges of hills, which are a continuation of the Eastern Ghats. It is tolerably clean and populous. The houses are almost all terrace-roofed and built with brick-in-chunam. At the entrance, there is a Mari or Grama Devate temple. At the front of it, two huge stone figures of Sri Devi and Bhu Devi, wives of Vishnu, are placed opposite each other, and the road runs between them.  The chief attraction of the place is the temple of Govindarajaswami. It is a very spacious structure: the entrance is crowned with a stupendous spire or gopuram of seven stories, with brass kalasas at the summit. It is of brick and chunam work, profusely ornamented.  Owing to the vandalism of the temple people, it is completely covered by a thick coat of filth, very tough and ages old.   The internal and external walls are built of slabs (some being of black stone) which are covered with inscriptions in Grantham, Tamil and Telugu. No one seems to have deciphered them. Here the people are Telugu, and their manners and customs have a tinge of those of Madras. -- Read the delightful piece in full! 😀📑🛕🙏🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-tirupati-town-that-vn-narasimha-iyengar-saw-in-1872

The Extraordinary Travel Diary of V.N. Narasimha Iyengar   V.N. Narasimha Iyengar, a Deputy Commissioner in the Mysore Princely State went on a pilgrimage from Bangalore to Benares in 1872 by train. He meticulously recorded almost every detail of this journey. It is a first-hand portrait of the socio-economic conditions of a large part of India of that era. It is also a slice of the history of Indian Railways. -- An excerpt is given below.   Arkonam (reached by 5 - 15 p.m.): Arkonam seems to be entirely a creation of the railway. It is a busy town, the trade of which is fed by the travellers, whose necessity is the opportunity of the small traders. Rice was being sold at fourteen seers a rupee, and good ghee was also procurable... The charge in the Brahman chatram is two annas per ordinary meal, embracing rice, charu, curry, an inkling of ghee and tair (curd). Ducks are reared here in abundance by the ryots and sold at four annas each. -- There is a wealth of historical material in this travelogue. Do read it in full! 📑🚂🛕🪔   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-extraordinary-travel-diary-of-vn-narasimha-iyengar

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Volume 2 of my Invaders And Infidels: The Khalji Devastation of Infidel Devagiri is now available! --- When QUTUB-UD-DIN AIBAK died in a polo game 1210, he had left behind a rickety, fledgling Muslim kingdom in Delhi. For the next eighty-odd years, its fortunes swayed wildly, witnessing a record twelve kings. The death of Balban extinguishes the so-called Muslim Slave dynasty and with it ends the short-lived Turkic Muslim imperialism. It also heralds the ascent of the Afghanistan-based Khaljis, classed as “low-born.” Book 2 of Invaders and Infidels traces the unlikely rise of Jalal-ud-din Khalji as an ill-suited monarch and ends with the maiden Islamic raid of Devagiri, the gateway to southern India. The incident will have far-reaching consequences for the history of India for the next six hundred years. -- Click the link below to buy the book now at a good discount! 📑🙏😀 https://www.amazon.in/dp/9392209495?ref_=cm_sw_r_apan_dp_EZDD2ECMQ6TSHX67X7GW