The Dharma Dispatch

How the Left Invented Imaginary terms like BIMARU and Cow Belt to Push an Anti-Hindu Narrative. An examination of the Leftist narratives on the Hindu Rate of Growth, BIMARU, Cow Belt and their ongoing consequences for the Hindu society and civilisation. -- We can begin with the obnoxious term, Hindu rate of growth coined in 1978 by the socialist “economist,” the notorious establishment stooge Raj Krishna. For more than a decade, Hindu rate of growth became a settled truth in all discussions and debates concerning India’s economy. A settled truth precisely because it was prohibited from being examined by the selfsame establishment. -- Read the whole essay! 🛕✍️🔖 https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/how-the-left-invented-imaginary-terms

‘Indira Ji ki Bahu Hoon’: Why Sonia Gandhi believes she is above the law - My latest column in Firstpost 🙏📖 -- https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/indira-ji-ki-bahu-hoon-why-sonia-gandhi-believes-she-is-above-the-law-10954361.html

The Deadly "Calcutta Line" of the Communist Party of India and its Far-Reaching Implications on National Security -- On 28 February 1948, the second Congress of the Communist Party of India was held in Calcutta. The "line" it adopted has proven fatal for India's internal security. Read the full chilling story! https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/the-deadly-calcutta-line-of-the-communist

Teaching Self-Restraint to Sense-Enslaved Americans: Har Dayal's Eye-Opening Observations of the Intrinsic American Character   In this episode, Lala Har Dayal provides candid but truthful observations of the innate character of the American society in the early 20th Century. The essay is imbued with great historical value. --   But we do not know these restless noisy Americans, who are always hankering after some sensation. They have no inner life. They must be drilled and disciplined to gain that mental equilibrium which even the noblest among them do not usually possess. We may as well tame a tiger or bind the wind than get an American to retire to the mountains for meditation!    These people go to church every Sunday after stuffing themselves with bacon and eggs in the morning, so that all the avenues of spiritual experience maybe completely closed.    It is a great tribute to the wisdom and moral power of the swamis that they have been able to teach even a few of these overfed self-complacent Americans the value of restraint and self-mortification as practised by earnest Hindus. -- The whole piece is truly brilliant! Read and share widely. 🛕🕉📙🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/teaching-self-restraint-to-sense-enslaved-americans-har-dayals-eye-opening-observations-of-the-intrinsic-american-character

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Hindu Swamis in America in the Early 20th Century   In this episode, Lala Har Dayal gives an truly remarkable firsthand account of the Hindu Swamis who began trickling into America in the early 20th Century. --- The beneficial effects of Swami Vivekananda's preach­ing are visible on every side. America is always on the alert for a lesson in religion from a Hindu. The cultured classes always imagine that every Hindu is a Yogi, or ought to be one.    There is a keen and growing interest in Hindu thought. Many earnest inquirers wish to quench their thirst for the ideal at the fountain of Hindu philosophy.   Several Ameri­can ladies have even adopted Hindu names and dedicated themselves to the Vedanta.   THE WORK OF THE SWAMIS has resulted in the general diffusion of Hindu ideas among a section of the upper classes, and has given Hindus the thoroughly deserved reputation of “a nation of philosophers.” A Hindu’s nationality is a passport to social intercourse in these classes, and the feeling of cordiality with which he is received deepens into one one of homage and admiration if the personality of the individual is remarkable. -- We occupied this high pedestal just a century ago. Today, the word "Hindu" itself has become a thing to be ashamed of! ✍️🙏🛕🥲🕉 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/hindu-swamis-in-america-in-the-early-20th-century

"Naa Adicha Nee Sethuruva!” - Dissecting Nayagan   A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan. --   YOU CAN’T WATCH NAYAGAN today with a straight face. Today’s uncles who watched the film in their teens will be guilt-stricken if they watch it again. Some might even feel suicidal. The con job that Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan pulled off with this 1987 cinematic heist easily vies with the likes of Mother India and Deewaar in the infernal world they all inhabit.   Nayagan is The Godfather and Deewaar rolled into one. It brazenly shoplifts entire sequences from the former and has a zealot’s devotion to the ideology peddled by the latter.   Nayagan is also portrayed by some movie aficionados and Mani “sir” devotees as a gangster and mafia movie, which is both ill-informed and misleading.   The Godfather does not pretend that its protagonists are not criminals or that the film has some hidden moral message. However, Nayagan is exactly that: a hoax. -- Read the whole piece! 🔖✍️📙🎬🎦☺️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/naa-adicha-nee-sethuruva-dissecting-nayagan

The Work Ethic of the Sikhs in America in Early 20th Century   Lala Har Dayal paints a moving and ennobling picture of the work ethic, habits and lifestyle of Sikhs who migrated to America in the early 20th Century. -- WE NEXT TAKE the Sikhs, whose skill as labourers is now as well-known to the Americans as their prowess in war was to the Afghans in older days.    They keep their turbans and their faith intact. They earn quite a large amount of money as farm-hands, and live as frugally as possible. They do not learn to speak good English, as they look upon themselves as temporary sojourners in this land of Goshen, and their hearts yearn for the dear old village and the bright sunlight of the Indian skies. They are eagerly sought after by the American farmers and fruit growers on account of their regular habits of work, their temperance and simplicity.   We must appreciate the courage and spirit of enterprise exhibited by these untutored villagers. They speedily develop a keen sense of patriotism, which manifests itself in deeds of kindly service to their fellow-countrymen here, in quicken­ed interest in public affairs, in the revival of religious consciousness, in preference for an independent career on their return to India, and in constant readiness to subscribe large sums of money for the corporate welfare. --   It is hard not to be deeply moved after reading this. Please circulate this widely! 🔖🙏🕉🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-work-ethic-of-the-sikhs-in-america-in-early-20th-century

Peripatetic Slaves of Mammon: Lala Har Dayal on the Indian Spies in Early 20th Century America   The polymath scholar and intrepid revolutionary, Lala Har Dayal provides a little-known account of his firsthand experiences with Indian spies of the colonial British Government who tried to infiltrate the Hindu community in America in 1911.   America is known to the average Indian as the country of Washington and Emerson and of negro-lynchings. In all other countries, India is known as a very fertile country which serves to enrich the British people. The Hindus are perhaps pitied and commiserated; but they are nowhere liked, still less loved or admired. Under the Union Jack, they have no status, as they are servants in the house.    Here I may mention a strange contrast between Indian life in England and in the United States. The Indians who reside in England for study, health, place-hunting, pleasure or political charlatanism do not represent the best elements of our society. In America, the Indian society is composed of the best elements of the population of the mother country. We have no idle aristocrats, or hungry graduates longing for official favour, or professional politicians combining patriotism with a due regard for the security of their sacred persons and the condition of their depleted purses. The meddlesome Indian spy in America finds himself blinded by the light which permeates every nook and corner of Hindu society here, for, like the mole and the bat, he can work only in darkness. --- Read the brilliant piece in full! 🔖📙🙏💎⚡️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/peripatetic-slaves-of-mammon-lala-har-dayal-on-the-indian-spies-in-early-20th-century-america

Visiting the Extraordinary Village Administrative Universe of Ukkal   The fourteen inscriptions discovered in 1893 at Ukkal village, now in Tiruvannamalai district, open the doors to a splendid universe of how village administration had been perfected in south India. ---    A half hour southward journey from Kanchipuram leads us to another site of civilisational amnesia and cultural apathy. This is the Ukkal village. You would look at me strangely if I told you that for about three unbroken centuries, Ukkal reigned as one of the exemplars of village administration that had touched the summit of perfection.   A close study of these fourteen inscriptions opens up highly illuminative insights regarding the setup, constitution and functioning of village administration in South India.  Ukkal was governed by an assembly known as the Sabha or Mahasabha, an unbroken administrative inheritance from the Sabhas and Samitis of the Vedic Era. The village assembly was subdivided into various committees tasked with specific functions. Committee members, technically known as Perumakkal (Distinguished Men), were elected each year. Transactions of the assembly were scrupulously recorded in registers and ledgers and other official books by an officer known as the Madhyastha (Arbitrator). Its accounts were maintained by the village accountant known as the Karanattan.   Given all this, I remain dazed when I hear “educated” Hindus nonchalantly claiming that ”Hindus have no sense of history,” “we have not preserved institutional memory,” and accompanying gems of such flagrant ignorance. -- Read the whole extraordinary  story!  ✍️🔖🛕🕉🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/visiting-the-extraordinary-village-administrative-universe-of-ukkal

The aspiration to become an intellectual is an aspiration to become a dwarf and springs from the same myopic vision that reads only newspapers and magazines and crime thrillers, and watches only television or even worse, is addicted to mobile phones. 🔖✍️📙📖 https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/a-miniature-of-bharatavarsha-before

From Independence to the Emergency: The Sordid Journey of the Downfall of Indian Cinema --- The downfall of Indian cinema can be traced with a cutoff point: the Emergency of 1975 and its aftermath.   Depravity, soullessness and nihilism are being actively promoted in the name of cinema. All these are being dictated by a vile soup made up of wokeism, megalomania and demonstrable insanity on the part of elite production houses and armies of deranged writers and directors. What are the topics that our contemporary filmmakers select? They mostly revolve around crime, sex, more crime and even more graphic sex. Subtle romance has been replaced by grunts and groans. Depravity has slaughtered sensitivity. Deafening cacophony has triumphed over deliberate silences both in voice and music. Suggestion is nonexistent. Small wonder that the current crop of movies have become mock-worthy memes instead of works of art. In fact, the emergence and rise of new-age directors like Maniratnam, Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rakesh Omprakash Mehra & Co is just a continuation of a downward phenomenon in Indian cinema. It can be described using this phrase: from Independence to Emergency. -- Do read the full piece! 🔖📽🎬🙏📖🔖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/from-independence-to-the-emergency-the-sordid-journey-of-the-downfall-of-indian-cinema

The Destruction of the Indian Aesthetic Tradition has Culminated in Artistic Famine in Indian Cinema   The Indian aesthetic tradition based on universal principles, was systematically destroyed and has left its pernicious imprint on Indian cinema as well. --- The Indian aesthetic tradition provides insights into art that are experientially verifiable. Tradition is the river that feeds, nurtures and sustains culture, and tradition is not “created” by one person or one institution or one book. To axe or weaken tradition based on individual whim or ideology or politics or what “feels” currently trendy is to drain out the source of this perennial river. This engineered drought cannot be undone.   “Interpreting” our literary corpus using prisms other than aesthetics had the other calculated outcome: of destroying standards. How would you like it if scrap-dealer Syed Pasha used his expertise to diagnose a heart condition? If something like that happened in real life, both Syed Pasha and the hospital would face criminal charges. But this has precisely occurred in the realm of art, literature and cinema. --- Read the whole piece! 🔖🛕✍️🎥📽   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-destruction-of-the-indian-aesthetic-tradition-has-culminated-in-artistic-famine-in-indian-cinema

Nizamuddin Auliya & other Sufi Shaikhs strongly emphasised on a practice named Nazar-ilal murd, meaning, “gazing with intense concentration on good looking beardless boys” aged between 12 - 16. What followed next can't be mentioned. Hashish was liberally distributed and wine flowed like a river in these sessions. It was not uncommon for some Sufi Faqirs to enter into “love affairs” with newly-wedded brides of other men. -- Do read the whole piece! 🕌✍️🔖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-awful-world-of-the-ulema-and-the-shocking-decadence-of-the-sufi-mashaikhs

Stability as a Contemporary Metaphor in the Downfall of Indian Cinema Stability is the bedrock of the Indian aesthetic tradition. Its gradual erosion is one of the singular factors contributing to the decline and downfall of this tradition. Nowhere is this more visible than in Indian cinema. --- STABILITY WAS THE BEDROCK of Indian cinema. Stability is what produced hundreds of eminently watchable family dramas which were not only commercially successful but some also became classics. Stability is what prevented movies with repetitive themes from becoming tainted with staleness. Stability is what disbarred the ennui that comes from over-familiarity.   Stability was the bedrock of Indian cinema because it has its durable roots in the Indian aesthetic tradition itself. It is precisely what birthed the hundreds of Ramayanas and Mahabharatas and derivative literature and art over several millennia, sprawled across the entire sacred geography of Bharatavarsha in multiple languages. Poor A.K. Ramanujan who wrote his masterly nonsense titled 300 Ramayanas failed to grasp this fundamental truth of the Indian aesthetic tradition. The erosion of stability is perhaps the single largest contributor to the near-comprehensive destruction of Indian cinema. Stability is also a great, contemporary metaphor of the decadal decline of Indian cinema. Its most visible manifestation is what is known as Bollywood. -- Do read the whole piece! ✍️🔖🎦🎬🎥📽 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/stability-as-a-contemporary-metaphor-in-the-downfall-of-indian-cinema

Ancient Indian Guilds as Banks and Trusts: The Final Episode The final episode of this series on the business and corporate history of India offers details of how guilds also acted as banks and executors of trusts and wills. --- GUILDS AND CORPORATIONS IN ANCIENT and medieval India also functioned as local banks that accepted public money and paid interest in the range of 9 - 12%.   Larger guilds extended their banking services throughout India. Enough evidence exists to show that there was an impressive network of such banking guilds dotting the entire geography of Bharatavarsha. Their organization was coherent, well-linked and above all, they operated on the basis of strict honesty, integrity, fair dealing, and had a fear of incurring paapa. Measured on the parameters of professional competence, organizational efficiency, customer service, and delivery, these banking guilds can hold their own against contemporary banking systems.    Another significant feature of these corporations was the fact that they had a system similar to travelers’ cheques. Then there was another side to it as well. For example, if a traveler ran out of money in a faraway land, he could take a loan from a local guild and repay it to a guild back in his native town or village. That local guild was in turn connected with the guild from which the traveler had taken out the loan. -- Don't miss reading the whole essay! 🛕✍️🔖   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/ancient-indian-guilds-as-banks-and-trusts-the-final-episode

Incorporating a Guild or Corporation in Ancient India: Their Profoundly Dharmic Charter This episode provides some eye-opening details about the process of incorporating a guild in ancient India and the exalted scope of their charter. ---   A soulful verse in the Brihaspati Sutra says that a corporation should also perform works of public utility such as: (1) building a house of public assembly like a town hall (2) a rest house providing free accommodation and meals for travelers and pilgrims (3) pools for supplying water to animals such as cows, bulls, buffaloes, horses and elephants (3) constructing temples and gardens (4) funding poor people (Daridrāṇām) for helping them perform sacred Samskaras such as Chaula, Namakarana, Upanayana, Antyeshti, or various Yajnas. All these were formally written down in the corporation’s charter and was legally binding. The profounder element is the fact that guild members were liable for judicial punishment if they failed to perform these Dharmic duties! And so, wherever any guild was located in Bharatavarsha and wherever a guild travelled to, it invariably carried out one or more or all of the aforementioned acts of Dharma. 🛕✍️🙏🕉🛕🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/incorporating-a-guild-or-corporation-in-ancient-india-their-profoundly-dharmic-charter

Krishna-Katha for Kids: New Course Announcement VIBHU ACADEMY announces a new programme for children titled Krishna-Katha, meant for children aged between 5 and 13 years. It covers an extensive repertoire of stories from the life of Sri Krishna drawn from Srimad Bhagavatam and the Mahabharata. It is a highly engaging and delightful programme woven in our familiar story narration format, at once appealing to kids. It is led by Dr. Arati V.B., whose expertise in this field is well-known. The course is offered in English and Kannada. Hurry up and enroll your children in the programme! 🛕🛕🙏 For full details, click the link below. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/dispatches/krishna-katha-for-kids-new-course-announcement

A Peek into the Legal and Judicial Aspects of Guilds and Corporations in Ancient India -- This episode offers broad glimpses into the nature of the legal and judicial facets of guilds and corporations in ancient India.   Tradition, custom and usage of each guild or business community played the most decisive role in two major areas: 1. While adjudicating disputes. 2. When the Government allowed the starting or expansion of a new business or commercial project, while levying specific classes of taxes, etc. The primacy of guild-specific traditions, usages and customs throughout the commercial history of India has to be mandatorily grasped in order to derive a well-rounded and accurate understanding of the subject. Every charter, document, inscription and epigraph found in any Hindu historical period throughout Bharatavarsha concludes with a strict injunction on the maintenance of tradition. In fact, tradition is the only, the most effective vehicle for preserving continuity, stability and order. The literate but irredeemably ignorant “reformers” who tried to “create” a “new India” in 1947 tried to do so not only by bypassing but axing the very roots of tradition. -- Read the extraordinary story in full! 🛕✍️🔖🛕🕉 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/a-peek-into-the-legal-and-judicial-aspects-of-guilds-and-corporations-in-ancient-india

PHOTOESSAY: The Stealthy Encirclement of a Timeless Dharmic Civilisation -- A commentary on how a global nexus of anti-Hindu forces have encircled the ancient Sanatana civilisation and why it must be the last chance for Hindus. 🛕🕌💒✍️🔖 https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/photoessay-the-stealthy-encirclement?sd=pf