The Dharma Dispatch

Chandrababu Naidu's Multi-Language Formula is a Welcome Move Two factors have caused the maximum havoc to the unity and integrity of India after independence: Nehruvian secularism and the linguistic reorganisation of the country. In reality, it was not reorganisation but linguistic division. It gave a new map to India which did not exist even at the apex of British colonial rule; a map that ignored and violated our protracted civilistional history and lived social experience. The combined denouement of all these phenomena is the fact that after 75-plus years, there seems to be no strand unifying Bharatavarsha. --- Read the whole powerful essay in full! 📑🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/chandrababu-naidus-multi-language-formula-is-a-welcome-move

The Triumph of Sri Venkannayya’s Rama Bhakti This profound real-life incident is set in early 19th century, some years after the Mysore kingdom had passed into British hands. Here's an excerpt ---- Some cowherds spread the news to the neighbouring villages that someone was performing daily Puja in the Anjaneya Temple. Almost immediately, villagers began flocking to the temple. But something else occurred simultaneously. Hundreds of monkeys from the forest unfailingly assembled at the temple at the exact moment that Sri Venkannayya began his Pārāyaṇam. They sat there in rapt silence listening to him, indulging in no mischief. --- These are the kinds of stories Hindu parents must tell their children. Do read the whole ennobling story! 🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-triumph-of-sri-venkannayyas-rama-bhakti

If a Jyoti Basu could declare that Bengal would secede from India if BJP came to power, if the Dravidian dumbos are talking about a concocted “pure” Dravidian stock, we must remember that this lethal path was paved by distorting and weaponising history. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/indian-historiography-at-75

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The Horrific Finale: Glimpses of Hindu Persecution by Murshid Quli Khan The final episode of our series on Murshid Quli Khan narrates some horrific stories of Hindu persecution in Bengal under his regime. Murshid Quli Khan’s conduct thus reinforces another common theme in the history of Muxlim rulers in India: the more orthodox, the more fanatical the ruler, the greater is the power exercised by his freeloading Ulema. -- Read the whole essay! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-horrific-finale-glimpses-of-hindu-persecution-by-murshid-quli-khan

On the punya parva of Mahashivratri, it's a sacred tradition at Dharma Dispatch to offer a bouquet of three stories extolling Shiva Bhakti. Wishing you all an auspicious Maha Shivaratri. 🕉️ Namah Shivaya 🕉️ 🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/three-stories-for-mahashivaratri-2021/

The Bigotry of Murshid Quli Khan and the Farman that Founded Kolkata Murshid Quli Khan was a typical Islamic Shia bigot. With age, his zeal for his sect became more fanatical. As the Nawab of Bengal, he ran it strictly according to the diktats of the Quran. In this, he proved to be a worthy disciple of Aurangzeb. Read the whole piece! 🙏📑😡 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-bigotry-of-murshid-quli-khan-and-the-farman-that-founded-kolkata