The Dharma Dispatch

Kamal Haasan's Pathetic Slide into Irrelevance Parthasarathy Srinivasan alias Kamal Hasan is a lesson, a warning and a timeless truth applicable to public figures: do not become that person whom the public is forced to endure in your old age by waging a lifelong war against time and reality. When Kamal Hasan the actor, dons the role of a real-life intellectual, he's trying to sound profound about…everything: Hindu philosophy, atheism, communism, secularism, Periyarism, and even jurisprudence. And when Kamal Hasan the intellectual, dons the role of a politician, we bolt towards safety. His brand of politics defies both description and sanity. --- Read the whole brutal commentary! 😀📑🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/kamal-haasans-pathetic-slide-into-irrelevance

The Swan Song of R.C. Majumdar In the last lecture of his life, Sri R.C. Majumdar foresaw the dangerous trends in Indian history writing and predicted the long-term damage that they would cause to India itself. Here's a direct quote from him: "During the post-Independence period, certain new trends are growing among a section of Indian historians which violate the high ideals of truth. The oft-quoted phrase ‘History is past politics’ is likely to be substituted soon by a new phrase ‘History is present politics.’ "History, divorced from truth, does not help a nation—its future should be laid on the stable foundations of truth and not on the quicksands of falsehood." --- Read the whole brilliant essay! 🙏🛕🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-swan-song-of-rc-majumdar

R.C. Majumdar’s Firsthand Experience of how Congress Distorted Indian History Here it is: straight from the horse's mouth. Read the full, dark story of how the Congress fabricated Indian history and invented the myth of an alleged eternal unity between Hindus and Muslims. This crime against Indian history was committed right before R.C. Majumdar's eyes. Here is an excerpt. "I KNOW from personal experience how the Government of India has sought to utilise history for the spread of ideas which they have elevated to the rank of national policy to their own satisfaction. All these are done in the name of national policy which is at best the policy of a political party." ----- Read and share widely! 😡🛕🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/rc-majumdars-firsthand-experience-of-how-congress-distorted-indian-history

When R.C. Majumdar Predicted the Invasion of Leftist Distorians Way back in 1968, the legendary R.C. Majumdar had unerringly predicted the eventual takeover of Indian History by the Leftist pamphleteers. His prediction came eerily true the very next year, 1969. That was when Romila Thapar & her Marxist mafia comrades published a scurrilous pamphlet declaring that they would rewrite Indian History. Read the whole piece for stark revelations! 😡📑🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/when-rc-majumdar-predicted-the-invasion-of-leftist-distorians

How Maoism Transformed Three Generations of Youth into Terrorists The Maoist terrorist Saketh Rajan is a warning and a symbol of everything wrong with Naxalism — from its ideological conception to its eventual extinction. When subjected to philosophical inquiry, there is no fundamental distinction separating Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism and Naxalism. It is a millenarian Godless religion armed with a Holy Book. The genocide and mayhem perpetrated by Communists is the most closely guarded open secret of Left wing terror in India. Read the whole brilliant analysis! 📑💪🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/how-maoism-transformed-three-generations-of-youth-into-terrorists

The Song of the Wayfarers This is my English translation of DVG's evocative Kannada poem, Daarigara Haadu or the Song of the Wayfarers. This poem belongs to the poetic sub-genre that can reasonably be called Virakta-Kavya or Renunciate Poetry. Its wellspring is the Vedic corpus, which extols the glory of Sanyasa or renunciation. The Song of the Wayfarers has a magnetic appeal that is hard to express in mere words. Here is a small sample. --- Neither want nor desire afflicts our mind for even half a moment; We know no fear nor do we embark on adventure; We fear not Fate which mocks us; We face Fate with modesty; We have in our hearts, a drop of the essence of Amrita; Savouring it in constancy, we know no anxiety. --- Do read the whole poem! 🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-song-of-the-wayfarers

Sri Vasudeva Sharan Agarwala and Sri A.S. Altekar: Lodestars of Indian History Research Sri Vasudeva Sharan Agarwala started out as a quasi-historian but finished his mortal journey as a profound spiritualist, almost like a Virakta. Everything he touched, he turned into unalloyed gold. Sri Anant Sadashiv Altekar wrote the first comprehensive history of the Rashtrakutas. He was also the first compiler of the full history of Benares. It was also Altekar who first unearthed the ruins of the ancient Mauryan Empire in Vaishali, Sonepur and other sites of Magadha. All the photos of Mauryan pillars and architecture we see in books and on the Internet are due to this ONE MAN! Read the whole inspiring essay! 🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/sri-vasudeva-sharan-agarwala-and-sri-as-altekar-lodestars-of-indian-history-research

Munir Elevating himself as Field Marshal is like building an urinal inside a swimming pool. https://youtube.com/shorts/iKwCTK15r_g?si=S_7SpBGBvoCCvDDt

When a Lake Inscription Opened a Chapter of Vijayanagara History Sri V.S. Sukhtankar travelled from Pune to a remote village in Andhra to decipher just one inscription related to Vijayanagara history. Sukhtankar stayed there for several days and spoke to the locals and gathered every minute detail of the region. If that was not enough, he physically entered the lake, built by Bhaskara Bhavadura, a prince of the Sangama Dynasty – in the 14th century. The result was an extraordinary treatise related to the history of the irrigation system of the Vijayanagara Empire! --- Do read this highly inspirational essay in full! 📑🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/when-a-lake-inscription-opened-a-chapter-of-vijayanagara-history

The Self-Imposed Cultural Commitment of Indian History Stalwarts Did you know that P.V. Kane travelled all the way to Nepal to read just one manuscript? The sort of cultural commitment that the exemplars of Indian history had set for themselves is truly astonishing. This is because they were attuned to the invisible, living connections that history, archeology, numismatics and allied disciplines have with lifeless documents, inscriptions and coins. Read the whole inspiring essay! 🙏🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-self-imposed-cultural-commitment-of-indian-history-stalwarts

Unravelling Pakistan - The Jihadi State that Refuses to Learn Pakistan embodies the four stages that unravel in a typical Shakespearean tragedy: how evil first destroys the good and finally consumes itself. This artificial nation is an unlikely creation of a Faustian farce in the person of Jinnah who, like Satan, preferred to be the Sultan of the Nether World than to remain as the second in command to God. By the 1970s, every vestige of art and culture that Pakistan had inherited from undivided India was hurtling towards extinction. The extermination of Hindustani classical music is perhaps the most representative of this wilful embrace of medieval tribalism based on bigotry. Read the brilliant essay in full! 😡📑🪔🕉 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/unravelling-pakistan-the-jihadi-state-that-refuses-to-learn

The Superhuman Labours of the Pioneers of Indian History V.K. Rajwade issued a public letter in newspapers requesting the people of Maharashtra to send him any old documents, letters, Bakhairs etc., that they had in their possession. If they couldn’t send it, all they had to do was to send him a 15-paisa inland letter card, and he would personally travel to their location. The result of these superhuman labours was the production of his masterly work titled Sources of Maratha History, which runs into twenty-two volumes! Read the whole extraordinary story! 🙏🛕🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-superhuman-labours-of-the-pioneers-of-indian-history