The Dharma Dispatch

How Indian Communists Helped the Muslim League to Carve out Pakistan This is a little-known story of how the Indian Communists actively helped the Muslim League to create Pakistan narrated by the redoubtable Sita Ram Goel. Some excerpts. The stage had thus been fully prepared for the climax which came in 1942-43. The Communist Party of India started quoting chapter and verse from the masters, Lenin and Stalin, in order to prove that India, like pre-revolutionary Russia, was seething with a number of submerged nationalities -- Andhras, Assamese, Bengalis, Gujaratis, Kashmiris, Malayalis, Marathas, Oriyas, Pathans, Punjabis, Sindhis and Tamils. Each of these had a right of its secede from the Indian federation and set up a sovereign state of its own. As the people in Bengal in the east and Punjab, Sindh and North-West Frontier Province in the west were predominantly Muslim, they could set up a separate federation of their own and call it Pakistan. ----- The details are truly chilling! Do read. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/how-indian-communists-helped-the-muslim-league-to-carve-out-pakistan

The Poignant Story of the Jai Sitaram Gosais This is the evocative story of a forgotten sect of Hindu monks known as the Jai Sitaram Gosais. ----- The Jai Sitaram Gosais were a group of Parivrajakas or wandering Sadhus. They constantly undertook Yatras in small and large groups, each group headed by a leader. All Gosais were Brahmacharins. They smeared Vibhuti all over their body and had radiant eyes. They sported matted locks and wore the Rudrakshamaala and Tulasi garland around their neck. When they halted their journey late in the evening, they constructed an Agni-Kunda, sat around it and began singing bhajans. This would be followed by a Parayana of some sacred text like the Ramayana or Bhagavad Gita. --- Do read the whole evocative essay and tell their story to your children. 🙏🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-poignant-story-of-the-jai-sitaram-gosais

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Here are Some Sanskrit Primary Sources of Maratha History A LAMENTABLE DEVELOPMENT in Indian history writing during recent years is the near total absence of utilising primary texts written in Sanskrit. These works contain valuable and firsthand historical information about the socio-political conditions of the period. By a careful study of all such works, it is possible to reconstruct an accurate history of both events and people. In this spirit, we take pleasure in presenting a list of some important Sanskrit primary sources narrating the history of the Maratha Empire. Hope you find this list useful! 🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/here-are-some-sanskrit-primary-sources-of-maratha-history

Salar Masud vowed to destroy the ancient sacred Sun temple near Bahraich as his piety for Izlam. https://youtu.be/yqCDeg8C3SE

Teaching Sanskrit to our Children will Save our Languages and Hindu Dharma https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/teaching-sanskrit-to-children-will-save-our-languages-and-hinduism

Bhartrhari’s work is also known as Subhashita. He himself seems to prefer that word: jirnam ange subhashitam — he says. Subhashita means “what is well spoken,” “a good saying.” https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/bhartrharis-profound-body-of-work

Maharashtra Elections: When Shivaji Trounced Afzal Khan Mega analysis by Sandeep Balakrishna of the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections in which the BJP-led Mahayuti scored a landslide triumph. This could well be a history-altering election in Maharashtra politics. It appears that PM Modi has learned the bitter lesson bitterly after the shock loss in the 2024 general elections: Sab ka Saath sab ka Vikaas is a slogan that can emanate only from the Hindu side. THE STORY OF how the BJP and its allies forged Hindu unity reads like a spiritual thriller. Its clue lies in the heartfelt thanks that Devendra Fadnavis offered to the Sant Samaj. ---- Read the whole brilliant piece! 😀😃🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/maharashtra-elections-when-shivaji-trounced-afzal-khan

DVG’s Majestic Exposition of Bhartrhari This is the first of a multipart essay series carrying a masterly exposition of the immortal Sanskrit poet Bhartrhari, authored by D.V. Gundappa. An excerpt is given below. ----- AMONG WELL-KNOWN SANSKRIT POETS, Bhartrhari takes rank next after Valmiki, Vyasa and Kalidasa. Bhartrhari is an alembic artist. He has distilled for us the ethos of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Bhartrhari has summed up the messages of the ancients in his three Shatakas or Centuries of Epigrams. What Vyasa is to the elect, Bhartrhari is to the common man. Bhartrhari’s words come home to young people as well as to old. His appeal is so simple, so pointed and so direct. --- Read this phenomenal piece NOW! 🛕🕉🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/dvgs-majestic-exposition-of-bhartrhari

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya: The Tyagamurti who Awoke Benares from Sleep THIS THEN IS THE BRAHMIN’S philosophy of life: “Shun not the world” as it has dwelling at its core, Brahman, the light par excellence. By the nineties of the 19th century, India was spiritually dead. Benares was asleep. Pandiitji raised his trumpet-tongued voice to call off sleep. THE HINDU UNIVERSITY is the monument of this selfless and dreamy Brahmin. It is his pet child. Beggared in worldly goods—this is his rich possession. Like the peak of Kailasa, he stands like the primaeval lotus which nothing can sully. -- A truly magnificent essay on the Mahamana. Do read and share widely! 🙏🕉🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/pandit-madan-mohan-malaviya-the-tyagamurti-who-awoke-benares-from-sleep

In Gandhi's case the questions one need to ask are: to what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity and to what extent did he compromise his own principles by entering politics, which of their nature are inseparable from coercion and fraud? - George Orwell https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/gandhi-was-our-man-said-the-british-george-orwells-devastating-critique