The Dharma Dispatch

Today is #GandhiJayanthi. What better way to celebrate it than exposing the story of how Mohandas Gandhi directly fell into the trap set by Mohammad Ali? The video is LIVE NOW! Do watch! 😀😃😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlIV3JI7eYk

Mir Jumla: Aurangzeb’s Confidant who Recruited Telugu Niyogi Brahmins ----- The large Jumma Masjid standing bang inside the Gandikota fort was built by Mir Jumla, Aurangzeb’s Confidant. Mir Jumla was a combination of a plunderer-businessman cum military commander cum Prime Minister of the Golconda Sultan. His raw business instincts had enabled him to acquire and wield enormous political power. He was a skilled negotiator and a spotter of talent. Thus, he freely recruited competent people even from the enemy camp. Jumla’s revenue management was almost wholly entrusted to Telugu Niyogi Brahmanas. The role of these Brahmanas in laying the financial edifice of what later became the bustling commerical city called Madras deserves a separate chapter. --- Read the whole fascinating essay! 📑😀🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/mir-jumla-aurangzebs-confidant-who-befriended-telugu-niyogi-brahmins

The Sun-Dried Tears of Gandikota --- This is the first episode of a new series narrating the brief civilisational history of Gandikota, fabled as the Grand Canyon of India. For six hundred years, Gandikota flourished as a strategic military outpost, capital, and a revenue district. Gandikota thus became a great prize coveted by every dynasty that ruled South India after the Kakatiyas. Sri Krishnadevaraya transformed it into a sīme (district), which encompassed Pulivendula, Proddatur, Kadapa, Kamalapuram and parts of Kurnool. When I visited Gandikota in 2014, it resembled an abandoned theatre of desolation. Almost nothing exists of the fabled Vijayanagara-era citadel. --- Read the blockbuster episode! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-sun-dried-tears-of-gandikota

Not just Tainted Tirumala Laddus: Andhra is in the Grip of the Missionary Machinery The Archaka community at Tirumala, Srisailam and elsewhere had been terrorised into silence by the Government-appointed Executive Officer. There are first hand reports of imagined infractions by an Archaka. What followed was unmitigated harassment including filthy insults targeted at the Brahmin community. If and when it becomes public, the defiled Prasadam scandal will pale in comparison to the scale and depth of the near-destruction of Tirumala. --- Do read the full piece, with shocking details! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/not-just-tainted-tirumala-laddus-andhra-is-in-the-grip-of-the-missionary-machinery

Hindu women sold their jewels and sent the money from distant parts to be used against the Musulm@ns. The poorer class worked feverishly at the spinning wheel or as hired labourers to be able to send something to the men of the army. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/when-hindu-women-sold-their-jewels-to-fight-mahmud-ghazni#:~:text=Hindu%20women%20sold%20their%20jewels%20and%20sent%20the%20money%20from%20distant%20parts%20to%20be%20used%20against%20the%20Musulmans.%20The%20poorer%20class%20worked%20feverishly%20at%20the%20spinning%20wheel%20or%20as%20hired%20labourers%20to%20be%20able%20to%20send%20something%20to%20the%20men%20of%20the%20army.

An Avadhoota from Old Bangalore: Swami Mahadeva Sastri -- This evocative essay from DVG is very close to my heart. Here is an excerpt from it. As Swami walked around the streets, all kinds of people would approach him from all directions and tie around his hand the Ananta thread, the Kashi thread or some other thread as part of a Vrata (vow) they had undertaken. By the time Swami reached the Aralepete Square, traders and shopkeepers who had businesses there would have opened the locks on their shops. But the doors would still be shut, expectantly awaiting the Swami’s arrival. When the procession halted before their respective shops, the businessmen opened the door, took out some offering from their cashbox, placed it in the Swami’s hands, uttering “Krishnarpanam,” “Shivarpanam.” The unanimous belief was that their business that day would be good if their first offering of the day was made to the Swami. ----- Do read this sublime essay in full! 🕉🙏🛕🪔 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/an-avadhoota-from-old-bangalore-swami-mahadeva-sastri

The Woke Cabal Cancels the CJI for Performing Ganesha Chaturthi CJI Sri Chandrachud had done the unforgivable: he had allowed himself to be videographed with the very man who has pushed the Nehruvian ecosystem to the brink of extinction. And the Ganesha Pooja rubbed chilli powder on the ecosystem’s raw wound: he was publicly seen celebrating a Hindu festival! Now, it made him the target of “cancel culture." Cancel culture is premised on nihilism and anarchy and respects nothing. Not even the Chief Justice of India. -- Read the whole powerful piece! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-woke-cabal-cancels-the-cji-for-performing-ganesha-chaturthi

The Alarming Shrinkage of the Hindu Physical Space The current situation presents an existential threat unlike anything that the Hindu samaj has seen before. This is a new front of a civilizational battle that India is little equipped to fight as things currently stand. There is yet another crucial front of this relentless assault against Hindu India. The physical space of Hindus has been shrinking continually under their very noses for the last century. --- Read the full piece. Share it widely! https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-alarming-shrinkage-of-the-hindu-physical-space

Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions: Saletore’s Magnum Opus on Sanatana Politics and Statecraft. -- Strictly for serious seekers only. Extremely rewarding work. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/ancient-indian-political-thought-and-institutions-saletores-magnum-opus-on-sanatana-politics-and-statecraft