The Dharma Dispatch

An Inside View of the Crumbling World Within Bahadur Shah Zafar’s Red Fort   A highly interesting compilation titled "Precis of Palace Intelligence" gives us an insider's picture of Bahadur Shah Zafar's Red Fort inhabited by 2000 people. ----- Bahadur Shah Zafar was one sick man. His status was slightly higher than that of a pauper happily feeding off British crumbs. But the pauperised status did not deter the deluded Bahadur Shah Zafar from basking in the illusion that his Mughal House still commanded the same prestige as before. And he fed the delusion with the selfsame British pension, lavishing it on jewellery, gardens, festivities, parties and extravagant decadence.   An intriguing document titled Precis of Palace Intelligence running into 800 pages furnishes first-hand details of life inside Bahadur Shah’s Red Fort from 1851-1854. -- This is the first part of a series publishing extracts from that document. Read and share widely! ✍️📙🛕🙏📖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/an-inside-view-of-the-crumbling-world-within-bahadur-shah-zafars-red-fort

When Lala Lajpat Rai Bombed Mohandas Gandhi’s Politics of Ahimsa   Excerpts from a 1916 essay written by Lala Lajpat Rai blasting Mohandas Gandhi's new doctrine of non-violent resistance against evil. -- Lala Lajpat Rai was among the first to openly call out the inherent and long-term dangers of Gandhi using non-violence as a form of protest against an intrinsically tyrannical foreign power premised on ruthlessness and exploitation. The result was an essay published in a Calcutta-based magazine in July 1916 in which he thoroughly blasts Gandhi's Ahimsa.   Here are some nuggets from it.   Suppose a ruffian assaults our daughter. Mr. Gandhi says that according to his conception of Ahimsa, the only way to protect the honor of our daughter is to stand between her and her assailant. With great respect for Mr. Gandhi, this is meaningless.   I consider it my duty to raise an emphatic protest against the pernicious doctrine he has propounded. Even a Gandhi should not be allowed to poison the minds of Young India on this subject. No one should be at liberty to pollute the fountains of national vitality. I feel that I cannot sit silent and let this doctrine go as an unquestioned sublime truth to be followed by Young India. Mr. Gandhi wants to create a world of imaginary perfection. -- Read the whole thing! ✍️📖💪👍 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/when-lala-lajpat-rai-bombed-mohandas-gandhis-politics-of-ahimsa

Lal Singh Chaddha: In Which Aamir Khan’s Politics has Roasted Him   Aamir Khan remains one of the last practitioners of the Bollywood school that targets the foundations of the Hindu society and Hindu religious practices with great artistry. With the release of Fanaa in 2006, nobody had any illusions about Aamir Khan’s politics. While the movie was an unabashed advocacy for the secession of Kashmir from India, it also proved a fertile opportunity for Aamir Khan to launch an unprovoked tirade against Narendra Modi. It was also the movie that marked the emergence of Aamir Khan not as a character in movies but as a persona.   The question that arises is this: at what point do Aamir Khan’s movies stop being mere fiction and become vehicles peddling his brand of politics?   -- Read the whole piece! 📄✍️🎬😊   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/lal-singh-chaddha-in-which-aamir-khans-politics-has-roasted-him

The Nadir in the Media is an Opportunity to Raise Standards   Commentary on the complete downfall of mainstream media and its role in destroying culture and values, and why this situation is actually an opportunity. ---   The media, more than any other institution, is a sponsor, torchbearer and prime enabler of our descent into cultural annihilation. The latest instance is the sleazy, sick, and sustained coverage of the nude pictures of Bollywood’s resident clown-in-chief Ranveer Singh. That this is being treated as news is the greater slap on our collective sensibilities. The vanguard and cheerleaders of these depravity-purveyors are editors and journalists old enough to be grandfathers, people who had grown up in an environment bereft of the Ranveer Singhs of the world. “Mainstream” newspapers like the Times of India have become finishing schools for misspellings and serial crimes against grammar. Magazines like India Today run brazen hatchet-jobs targeting Brahmins when its founder and chief editor is not busy flattering Sonia Gandhi. Then we have the Chinese extension counter in Chennai, The Hindu, a paper once described as sedate, balanced and was actually… Hindu in letter, spirit and conduct.   It appears that politics and cinema are their constant obsessions as if nothing else exists in the seventh largest country in the world inhabited by 140 crore people and occupies the high mantle of being one of humankind’s oldest cultures. -- Read the whole thing! ✍️📙📖📄😀   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/the-nadir-in-the-media-is-an-opportunity-to-raise-standards

How the Mughals Paved the Way for the British Takeover of Bharatavarsha   A detailed exploration of how the Mughals almost singlehandedly opened the doors for the eventual takeover of Bharatavarsha by the East India Company. --   IF WE ACCEPT THE IDEOLOGICAL FICTION masquerading as history that the Mughals were the rulers of the whole of Hindustan, we naturally come to the conclusion that they made a rotten job of protecting its independence. If anything, the Mughals almost singlehandedly opened the doors for the eventual takeover of Bharatavarsha by a mere British trading corporation.   Historical sources including Muslim and European annals clearly reveal an underlying truth of the core character of the Mughal regime: at no point were its kings interested in securing and protecting the independence and integrity of India.   Here are some job titles that are mirrors to the pit that the Mughals had thrown India into: spittoon-bearer, cup-bearer, umbrella-bearer, ice-bearer, servants specially appointed to serve a specific delicacy, large staff employed for hunting, hawking, pigeon-flying, trainers who trained the fighting instincts of cocks, rams, frogs and even spiders, and servants whose only job was to drive away flies that threatened to approach the fair sultan or aristocrat. The Mughal employment market was a market of slaves. -- Read the whole compelling essay! 🔖✍️🕌📙📖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/how-the-mughals-paved-the-way-for-the-british-takeover-of-bharatavarsha

Hindu Dharma on Trial: The Sinister Project of Equality Labs -- A truly exceptional piece by Rami Desai on Equality Labs, a sinister new front actively working to destroy what is left of the Hindu civilization. -- Read & share widely 👍✌️🕉️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/hindu-dharma-on-trial-the-sinister-project-of-equality-labs

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10 PM IST | Udaipur killing of Kanhaiyalal is not the actual disease but only a symptom of a larger malaise spanning India's flawed secularism, global Islamism and the Western need to to keep India in its place. Sandeep Balakrishna recounts the context to Kanhaiyalal and the secular-liberal facilitation in this talk with Vibhuti Jha and Sanjay Dixit. https://youtu.be/Yk1rDQyhxm8

Lala Har Dayal's Moving Appeal: What India can Give to the World In the final episode of this series, Lala Har Dayal makes a passionate and moving appeal to both Indians in America and in India. It is a call for sincere and quiet work and a message of hope and encouragement. ---   Hindu society still contains elements of vitality, but they must be found out. The spirit of self-help and the creative energy displayed by the Hindu labourers, - students and swamis in America cannot belong to a dead nation.    The Sikhs representing the sturdy warriors, the Students. living the life of the Brahmacharin, and the Swamis founding ashramas like those of Agastya and Vashishtha to convert the barbarians.   Time, the mighty architect the healer of all wounds and the avenger of all wrongs, will lead, our efforts to final success after our ashes are mingled with the eternal waters of the holy Ganga. ---   We at The Dharma Dispatch, came away feeling enriched and ennobled throughout the preparation and publication of this series. We hope you find it similarly useful. Happy Reading!✍️🔖🕉🛕✍️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/lala-har-dayals-moving-appeal-what-india-can-give-to-the-world

How the Left Invented Imaginary terms like BIMARU and Cow Belt to Push an Anti-Hindu Narrative. An examination of the Leftist narratives on the Hindu Rate of Growth, BIMARU, Cow Belt and their ongoing consequences for the Hindu society and civilisation. -- We can begin with the obnoxious term, Hindu rate of growth coined in 1978 by the socialist “economist,” the notorious establishment stooge Raj Krishna. For more than a decade, Hindu rate of growth became a settled truth in all discussions and debates concerning India’s economy. A settled truth precisely because it was prohibited from being examined by the selfsame establishment. -- Read the whole essay! 🛕✍️🔖 https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/how-the-left-invented-imaginary-terms

‘Indira Ji ki Bahu Hoon’: Why Sonia Gandhi believes she is above the law - My latest column in Firstpost 🙏📖 -- https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/indira-ji-ki-bahu-hoon-why-sonia-gandhi-believes-she-is-above-the-law-10954361.html

The Deadly "Calcutta Line" of the Communist Party of India and its Far-Reaching Implications on National Security -- On 28 February 1948, the second Congress of the Communist Party of India was held in Calcutta. The "line" it adopted has proven fatal for India's internal security. Read the full chilling story! https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/the-deadly-calcutta-line-of-the-communist

Teaching Self-Restraint to Sense-Enslaved Americans: Har Dayal's Eye-Opening Observations of the Intrinsic American Character   In this episode, Lala Har Dayal provides candid but truthful observations of the innate character of the American society in the early 20th Century. The essay is imbued with great historical value. --   But we do not know these restless noisy Americans, who are always hankering after some sensation. They have no inner life. They must be drilled and disciplined to gain that mental equilibrium which even the noblest among them do not usually possess. We may as well tame a tiger or bind the wind than get an American to retire to the mountains for meditation!    These people go to church every Sunday after stuffing themselves with bacon and eggs in the morning, so that all the avenues of spiritual experience maybe completely closed.    It is a great tribute to the wisdom and moral power of the swamis that they have been able to teach even a few of these overfed self-complacent Americans the value of restraint and self-mortification as practised by earnest Hindus. -- The whole piece is truly brilliant! Read and share widely. 🛕🕉📙🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/teaching-self-restraint-to-sense-enslaved-americans-har-dayals-eye-opening-observations-of-the-intrinsic-american-character

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Hindu Swamis in America in the Early 20th Century   In this episode, Lala Har Dayal gives an truly remarkable firsthand account of the Hindu Swamis who began trickling into America in the early 20th Century. --- The beneficial effects of Swami Vivekananda's preach­ing are visible on every side. America is always on the alert for a lesson in religion from a Hindu. The cultured classes always imagine that every Hindu is a Yogi, or ought to be one.    There is a keen and growing interest in Hindu thought. Many earnest inquirers wish to quench their thirst for the ideal at the fountain of Hindu philosophy.   Several Ameri­can ladies have even adopted Hindu names and dedicated themselves to the Vedanta.   THE WORK OF THE SWAMIS has resulted in the general diffusion of Hindu ideas among a section of the upper classes, and has given Hindus the thoroughly deserved reputation of “a nation of philosophers.” A Hindu’s nationality is a passport to social intercourse in these classes, and the feeling of cordiality with which he is received deepens into one one of homage and admiration if the personality of the individual is remarkable. -- We occupied this high pedestal just a century ago. Today, the word "Hindu" itself has become a thing to be ashamed of! ✍️🙏🛕🥲🕉 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/hindu-swamis-in-america-in-the-early-20th-century

"Naa Adicha Nee Sethuruva!” - Dissecting Nayagan   A critical analysis of the 1987 Tamil film, "Nayagan," which is widely regarded as one of the best movies of Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan. --   YOU CAN’T WATCH NAYAGAN today with a straight face. Today’s uncles who watched the film in their teens will be guilt-stricken if they watch it again. Some might even feel suicidal. The con job that Maniratnam and Kamal Hassan pulled off with this 1987 cinematic heist easily vies with the likes of Mother India and Deewaar in the infernal world they all inhabit.   Nayagan is The Godfather and Deewaar rolled into one. It brazenly shoplifts entire sequences from the former and has a zealot’s devotion to the ideology peddled by the latter.   Nayagan is also portrayed by some movie aficionados and Mani “sir” devotees as a gangster and mafia movie, which is both ill-informed and misleading.   The Godfather does not pretend that its protagonists are not criminals or that the film has some hidden moral message. However, Nayagan is exactly that: a hoax. -- Read the whole piece! 🔖✍️📙🎬🎦☺️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/naa-adicha-nee-sethuruva-dissecting-nayagan

The Work Ethic of the Sikhs in America in Early 20th Century   Lala Har Dayal paints a moving and ennobling picture of the work ethic, habits and lifestyle of Sikhs who migrated to America in the early 20th Century. -- WE NEXT TAKE the Sikhs, whose skill as labourers is now as well-known to the Americans as their prowess in war was to the Afghans in older days.    They keep their turbans and their faith intact. They earn quite a large amount of money as farm-hands, and live as frugally as possible. They do not learn to speak good English, as they look upon themselves as temporary sojourners in this land of Goshen, and their hearts yearn for the dear old village and the bright sunlight of the Indian skies. They are eagerly sought after by the American farmers and fruit growers on account of their regular habits of work, their temperance and simplicity.   We must appreciate the courage and spirit of enterprise exhibited by these untutored villagers. They speedily develop a keen sense of patriotism, which manifests itself in deeds of kindly service to their fellow-countrymen here, in quicken­ed interest in public affairs, in the revival of religious consciousness, in preference for an independent career on their return to India, and in constant readiness to subscribe large sums of money for the corporate welfare. --   It is hard not to be deeply moved after reading this. Please circulate this widely! 🔖🙏🕉🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-work-ethic-of-the-sikhs-in-america-in-early-20th-century

Peripatetic Slaves of Mammon: Lala Har Dayal on the Indian Spies in Early 20th Century America   The polymath scholar and intrepid revolutionary, Lala Har Dayal provides a little-known account of his firsthand experiences with Indian spies of the colonial British Government who tried to infiltrate the Hindu community in America in 1911.   America is known to the average Indian as the country of Washington and Emerson and of negro-lynchings. In all other countries, India is known as a very fertile country which serves to enrich the British people. The Hindus are perhaps pitied and commiserated; but they are nowhere liked, still less loved or admired. Under the Union Jack, they have no status, as they are servants in the house.    Here I may mention a strange contrast between Indian life in England and in the United States. The Indians who reside in England for study, health, place-hunting, pleasure or political charlatanism do not represent the best elements of our society. In America, the Indian society is composed of the best elements of the population of the mother country. We have no idle aristocrats, or hungry graduates longing for official favour, or professional politicians combining patriotism with a due regard for the security of their sacred persons and the condition of their depleted purses. The meddlesome Indian spy in America finds himself blinded by the light which permeates every nook and corner of Hindu society here, for, like the mole and the bat, he can work only in darkness. --- Read the brilliant piece in full! 🔖📙🙏💎⚡️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/peripatetic-slaves-of-mammon-lala-har-dayal-on-the-indian-spies-in-early-20th-century-america

Visiting the Extraordinary Village Administrative Universe of Ukkal   The fourteen inscriptions discovered in 1893 at Ukkal village, now in Tiruvannamalai district, open the doors to a splendid universe of how village administration had been perfected in south India. ---    A half hour southward journey from Kanchipuram leads us to another site of civilisational amnesia and cultural apathy. This is the Ukkal village. You would look at me strangely if I told you that for about three unbroken centuries, Ukkal reigned as one of the exemplars of village administration that had touched the summit of perfection.   A close study of these fourteen inscriptions opens up highly illuminative insights regarding the setup, constitution and functioning of village administration in South India.  Ukkal was governed by an assembly known as the Sabha or Mahasabha, an unbroken administrative inheritance from the Sabhas and Samitis of the Vedic Era. The village assembly was subdivided into various committees tasked with specific functions. Committee members, technically known as Perumakkal (Distinguished Men), were elected each year. Transactions of the assembly were scrupulously recorded in registers and ledgers and other official books by an officer known as the Madhyastha (Arbitrator). Its accounts were maintained by the village accountant known as the Karanattan.   Given all this, I remain dazed when I hear “educated” Hindus nonchalantly claiming that ”Hindus have no sense of history,” “we have not preserved institutional memory,” and accompanying gems of such flagrant ignorance. -- Read the whole extraordinary  story!  ✍️🔖🛕🕉🛕   https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/visiting-the-extraordinary-village-administrative-universe-of-ukkal

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