Since Irfan Habib is in the news again, here is a four-part series I had written way back in 2019. Happy reading!
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1. Tarikh-i-Habibi—Being the Partial Chronicle of Irfan Habib: The Progenitor
dharmadispatch.in/history/tarikh… 2. Tarikh-i-Habibi: I was Sure he Would Stab me at the First Opportunity: K.K. Muhammed
dharmadispatch.in/history/tarikh…

Since #Nehru is trending, here's a mega curated list of essays published on The Dharma Dispatch. Enjoy! 1. The Chilling Damage that Communism-Infected Nehru Inflicted on an Ancient Civilisation dharmadispatch.in/history/the-ch…

In full solidarity with #IStandWithIsrael, here are some lessons for Hindus.

1. Israel and India began around the same time after colonization ended.
2. From then, till now, the world has always stood by Israel.
3. Why? Because:
-- a. Israel was not cursed with a Nawab Nehru.
-- b. Showing Strength commands respect. Not Nehru's red rose of peace.

Quick data points about Neville Roy Singham.
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Neville is the son of the Sri Lankan Tamil academic, Dr. Archibald Singham. Archibald Singham was the son of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants to colonial Burma.

Rallapalli Anantakrishna Sarma garu is a Praatah-smaraneeya for countless reasons. Here's a memorable one. He was acquainted with a "revolutionary" Telugu poet who had made a name for himself as a "progressive," etc.

Exemplary act by Sri @AmitShah vis a vis the Dharma-Danda or Sengol (Tamil). The Dharma Danda is as old as Sanatana Dharma itself. Merely its design, form, shape, etc., varied from time to time, empire to empire. The Dharma-Danda has a literal, symbolic, practical and ethical value. As its wielder, the king embodied Dharma in the combined realms of sovereignty, protection, military, and jurisprudence. Hindu texts dealing with the coronation ritual are both delightful & ennobling to read.

What this guy doesn't know is the brutality that accompanied Indira Gandhi's Chikmagalur campaign.
A thread 🧵 Devaraj Urs was the CM back then. He had put the entire state machinery at Indira's disposal, in a way.

Shall we talk about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's heroism? A thread follows. Source will be given at the end. All the words are quoted verbatim from the source. Enjoy! 😀😀 Maulana was a divine only in so far as his vast knowledge of Muslim religious lore was
concerned. For the rest, he was a man of the world who loved the good things of life.

Almost 8 years into @narendramodi's regime, the seeds of definitive changes that he had sown in 2014 are invisibly but surely bearing fruit across a variety of spheres. All spheres are united by one profound strand: civilisational self-confidence. The infinite pity is that this point is missed by our antiquated commentariat because their knowledge of their own civilisation is synonymous with ignorance.

Basharat Peer, scriptwriter of the anti-Hindu movie, "Haider," is married to Ananya Vajpeyi, daughter of Kailash Vajpeyi, who served on the Sahitya Akademi Council for 5 years. Basharat Peer's Wiki page calls him a Pakistani American journalist. He ran the short-lived India Ink blog, an arm of NYT. An important piece it ran was on the Modi visa denial: india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/u-s…

At the height of Kashmir tension after Article 370, the New Yorker did a hit job against Narendra Modi. Entirely expected. But guess who fed the US journo? Rana Ayyub who actually managed to travel to Kashmir and "report" from there.
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Totally sinister.
newyorker.com/magazine/2019/… Here are some excerpts from that piece.
1. On the phone, she invited me to meet her in Mumbai and try to get into Kashmir.
2. When I arrived, she handed me a pair of scarves & told me to buy a kurta “I am ninety-nine per cent sure you will be caught, but you should come anyway."

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Nawab Nehru's Nawabi love for seculars and the languages of invaders. On the floor of the House. Circa 1949. Ostensibly, he was opposed to Hindustani as India's national language. Ostensibly. This is what he said. "Do not conceive for a moment that I am a communal-minded man. When I oppose Hindustani I do so, not on account of my lack of love for those people, but because of my love and affection for them"

It might sound unbelievable today but for about
four decades, Delhi was held hostage by Imam of the Jama Masjid. He would play Indira Gandhi like a fine-tuned fiddle. The other organisation that brought down the Delhi administration to its knees was the fanatical Jamaat-e-Islami. It would marshal 1000s of the faithful for intimidating street-marches waving green flags if some "demand" was not met.

Found this on the National Institute of Open Schooling, under Ministry of Education. This is from the chapter on the Guptas for Senior Secondary students. Ready? Here's a tidbit from "Literature" during the Guptas. Kavikulaguru Kalidasa gets less just 4 sentences. And how!
"The greatest of all the poets was Kalidasa...The notable feature of his works is that the characters of higher caste speak in Sanskrit while those of lower caste and women speak in
Prakrit."

Those here from the old days will remember the kind of "debates" Rajdeep used to run on his dog-and-pony shows first on NDTV and then in his own kirana shop, CNN-IBN for more than a decade. Before we proceed, we need to remember how naive the Vajpayee govt was. But for NDA 1.0 which opened up private players in TV news, crooks & fixers like Prannoy, Barkha, Rajdeep, et al would be unable to inflict the irreparable damage they've done on public discourse

Short thread on the Indian enablers, defenders, and apologists of Chinese incursions into India. Needless, its foundations were laid by India's first Prime Minister, Nawab Nehru. Little did we know back then that the Red Rose on his dress was the colour of Communism. Nehru's fascination and addiction with Communism & before China backstabbed India created a huge, flourishing market for India-betrayers at all levels: largely in the academia & media apart from our Communist parties. Let's quickly fast forward.

There's a reason our wise, spirited Aryan ancestors used the terms Mleccha & Yavana as pejoratives. Very early, they spotted their basic nature: unclean, ill-mannered, uncultured & barbaric & fundamentally untrustworthy. Centuries of ravage made us forget this wisdom. The assessment has stood the test of time. No Jimmy Wales, no Bill Gates, no Warren Buffets are worthy of emulation. They do it via the garb of business or benevolence or both. By the time Hindus wake up to the embedded deception, substantial damage would've occurred.

By the close of the 90s & a few years thereafter, one section of middle class Indians who had travelled to the West, especially US wrote copious blogs on what made the US so great. "Rule of law" would invariably top these reasons. Their condemnation of their own country which enabled to go there was stunning, bordering on hatred.

Qutub minar built by a genocidal alien invader after demolishing 27 Hindu and Jain temples.

"Tower of victory." WHAT victory? Over whom?

Who even runs these handles?

https://twitter.com/incredibleindia/status/1233266534585266176

Here's how a historian describes the "victory." Paraphrasing.

"The blood of the infidels flowed like a river and the Yamuna became discolored."

Always remember this: it's not about #CAA or #NRC or #AyodhyaVerdict or #Article370. It's about the solid Sanatana civilization slowly reasserting itself. The greatest hope that the Indian National Congress (Pakistan) party banked on was a repeat of 2004 in 2019 - a shock loss of the BJP at the elections.