The Dharma Dispatch

ON NOVEMBER 13, 1947, Sardar Patel visited Somanath, walked inside the decrepit temple and finally stood outside the Ahalya Bai temple facing a massive crowd. Holding a few sacred drops of sea water in his palm, he took a solemn vow, his thunderous voice reaching each ear: --- "On this auspicious day of the New Year, we have decided that Somanatha should be reconstructed. You, people of Saurashtra, should do your best. This is a holy task in which all should participate." ---- History was made. 🔥🕉🪔🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/somnath-temple-history-restoration-anniversary/

4500 words. In which I narrate the comprehensive story of the transition from Congress and Communist rule to Mamata Banerjee's terror-regime, and why the BJP’s 2026 victory marks the end of a century-long Bhadralok hegemony. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-fall-of-mamata-banerjee-a-history-of-west-bengals-political-decay-and-the-2026-bjp-shift/

Gandhi's two deadly obsessions https://youtube.com/shorts/U3N8dn4aNdE?si=OUEaMOIof4rQEirb

How D.B. Parasnis's obsession with rare manuscripts and Mughal art transformed our understanding of the Maratha Empire. Did you know that Parasnis secured a steel engraving of Clive in full-blown obesity by paying £20 to his descendant? https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/db-parasnis-maratha-history-collector/

D.B. Parasnis started for Indore, but while halting at Bombay to make some purchases, he received a telegram from Indore stating that a fire had broken out in the low, dark cutcha building where the records had been stored like grain-sacks, and that nearly all of them had perished. Such is the harvest reaped by ignorance and folly in high places. Read the whole heartbreaking essay! 🙏🔥😔🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/when-the-indore-babudoms-negligence-burnt-the-entire-holkar-archives

Sri D.B. Parasnis rendered an invaluable service to future scholars by saving & printing rare primary sources of Maratha history that might otherwise have been lost forever. His qualification? 10th standard pass. 🕉️🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/remembering-d-b-parasnis-the-selfless-giant-of-maratha-history

How the Vatican’s Mission to Colonise Bharatavarsha was Strengthened by Teresa https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/how-the-vaticans-mission-to-colonise-bharatavarsha-was-strengthened-by-teresa

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English: "Martin Luther burnt the Papal Bull" Urdu: Martin Luther ne Papa-Rome ka byle ko jalai dia (Luther roasted the ox of the Pope of Rome) --- Courtesy: Urdu department, Osmania university, circa 1946. Read the full story! 😀😀😀 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/hyderabad-was-never-an-independent-state-historys-verdict

How Nawab Nehru's lifelong obsession for seeking validation from the White Man enabled large scale conversion activity by Christian missionaries in India https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/how-jawaharlal-nehru-opened-indias-gates-to-christian-missionaries-for-converting-hindus

This is my heartfelt tribute to Dr. S.R. Ramaswamy, a national treasure who lapsed into eternity yesterday. 🪔🕉 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-calming-strength-of-his-palm

[COMMENTARY] For half a century, the Mysore University was revered as a Jnana-Kashi. And then, a bunch of vandals seized it and transformed it into a crematorium of knowledge. This is the full story of that destruction. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/how-caste-politics-communism-and-congress-transformed-mysore-university-into-a-crematorium-of-knowledge

[HISTORY VIGNETTES] A Forgotten Vijayanagara Heritage: The Ancient Haridra Dam and Crumbling Kalleshwara Temple of Devarabelakere. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/photoessay-a-bridge-on-the-river-haridra