The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

Military infrastructure on the China and Pakistan border has undergone incredible change to keep up with China. Rohit Vats and Dr. Shiv Shastry join Sanjay Dixit to discuss the strategic and tactical importance of these developments.

Eternal Atheist Javed Akhtar reincarnates to support the Bollywood Druggie Aryan Khan and his accomplices. Watch Sanjay Dixit take him apart.

When PM Modi went to AMU and called it the 'epicentre of National Movement', one knew instantly that it was a tribute to the success of the Aligarh School of History in completely whitewashing not just the History of India, but also the History of the National Movement. Prakhar Srivastava, the well known media personality, joins Sanjay Dixit to lift the veil from the real face of AMU, the real AMU that was Jinnah's arsenal and that led the intellectual and physical battle for the nation of Pakistan, not of India.

Is it time to invoke the UN Convention on genocide in Bangladesh and Kashmir with respect to the ongoing assaults on the very existence of Hindus. It should be accompanied by a world wide ban on blasphemy laws. Pandit Satish Sharma and Vibhuti Jha join Sanjay Dixit to examine the important issue.

Frustrated at getting the royal ignore from all over the world, Pakistan found yet another means of doing anti-India propaganda - that they chased away an Indian submarine from their territorial waters. Sanjay Dixit busts the propaganda.

Almost the entire opposition has forgotten how to do politics and remains obsessed with the persona of Narendra Modi. Reminds one of the heydays of Indira Gandhi, but with the important difference that even at that time opposition did manage to articulate a different ideology. Bhau Torsekar and Omkar Chaudhary join Sanjay Dixit to examine this curious phenomenon.

Sanjay Dixit talks to J Sai Deepak on the insights from his best selling recent book - India that is Bharat - Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. Evocative as the subject is, Sai Deepak dives deep into the what he calls the OET (Ontology, Epistemology, Theology) framework of the colonial project, juxtaposes it against the Indic civilisation and examines our Constitutional journey against this backdrop. Can watch Sai Deepak talk substantially in Hindi.

Tariq Hameed Karra of Congress tried to run down Sardar Patel in the CWC meeting, while eulogising Nehru as the person who integrated Jammu and Kashmir with India. The facts cannot be twisted more than this. Sanjay Dixit looks at the role of Patel in integrating other Princely States, and how Nehru detached J&K from the States department and made blunders after blunders.

In the 5th and final episode of 'Lessons from Hindu History, Sandeep Balakrishna talks to Sanjay Dixit about, 1. Creation of the Macaulay Class, and 2. Nehruvian Darkness. This ends the series.

Ask Me Anything with Sanjay Dixit - Questions and Answers Episode Number 62 - Ask Anything on Islam, History, Geography, International Affairs, Indian Affairs, Politics.

It seems that only one kind of Sikhs have all the rights, and none else because they are the only farmers in the world. From lynching Brahmins and others, to medieval style killing of a Dalit Sikh, everything seems to be par for the game. Terror grows when appeased. Sanjay Dixit looks at the history of the Nihangs, as well as Jatt Sikhs and the British successes in moving them away from Hindus in the context of Lakhimpur and Singhu.

The Critical Race Theory is being played in the US in schools, colleges , jobs and even in the armed forces. It’s coming to India soon. But what are the forces behind it and how they are shaping the social and cultural dialogue all over the world!

Tufail Chaturvedi joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the ongoing attacks on the Hindus and their temples in Bangla Desh. Right from 1948, the Islamists have been persecuting the Hindus, having reduced them from about 30% in 1947 to less than 10% today, and not pausing even at that.

Dr. Rajat Mitra goes deep into how the reactions of those killed in the Valley once again talk about humanity of Islam and how the terrorists are not being true Muslims. Does this reflect a genuine ignorance of the doctrines of Islam or true Zimmi attitude deeply ingrained by generations of trauma? Sanjay Dixit hosts Dr. Mitra.

Rakesh Tikait, the maverick 'farmer' leader went overboard to proclaim that Bhindranwale is considered to be a saint. However, he was a designated merchant of terror when Govt of India had to launch Operation Bluestar. Puneet Sahani exposes Bhindranwale and those supporting him in the name of Khalistan in this talk with Sanjay Dixit.

Sanjay Dixit discusses the statement by General Mobeen of Taliban that refuses to recognise the Durand Line, and claiming all lands up to Attock. Durand Line was drawn in 1883 after the Gandamak Treaty between Sir Mortimer Durand and Abdur Rahman Khan, the Emir of Afghanistan. Coupled to his denunciation of Imran Khan, it has sent ripples in Pakistan.

Faiyaz Ahmad Fyzie brings incontrovertible evidence to prove that the entire Islamic period of Indian History was nothing but an unbridled rule of the AMM (Ashraf Mulla Maulana), by the AMM, and for the AMM. Every Islamic ruler in India was called Amir-ul-Islam, the Chief of Ulema was Sheikh-ul-Islam and its Army was always Lashkar-ul-Islam. It was complete oppression of all classes of Hindus and of Pasmanda Muslims.

 Ruchir Sharma, Sanjay Dixit and Vibhuti Jha

The Law and Order template of the country is now becoming clear. The more nuisance one can create, the more indulgent the present BJP govt. is likely to be towards that group. So whether Rakesh Tikait justifies lynchings, and Khalistanis lynch people on live videos, only the other party will be arrested, such as Ashwini Upadhyay in Delhi or Ashish Mishra in Lakhimpur. However, the efforts to appease the separatists and to win the hearts and minds of Jihadis will continue even though 370 has been made ineffective. Thus Shah Faesal almost became the boss of IAS officers 20-25 years his senior. Sanjay Dixit examines the Masterstroke Syndrome.

Importance of Institution Building for anchoring and disseminating the Sanatana narrative is very important. Shri Kalyan Viswanathan, President of the Hindu University of America joins Vibhuti Jha and Sanjay Dixit to discuss the various facets of the institution building effort, both in the context of the HUA as well as in a general context.

JD-ATS Opinion Poll is aired today with a follow up discussion between Sanjay Dixit, Abhishek Tiwary and Dhirendra Pundir.

Home Minister Amit Shah warned Pakistan in the wake of balidan of 5 Army soldiers, including a JCO, in the Poonch sector. While the warning is welcome, Sanjay Dixit looks at the defensive policy of India and advocates a change in approach. The Quranic Concept of War, meaning the permanent war or Jihad is the basic principle of Pakistan Army, but the Indian Establishment always ignores it. Dixit asks for a change in India's basic policy towards Pakistan.

The two most flogged narratives used to besmirch Hindus are caste and Sati. Abhijit Chavda joins Sanjay Dixit to debun the narrative built around Sati as an integral feature of Hinduism, and also deconstructs Raja Rammohan Roy as a collaborator of the British in helping build that narrative. Chavda tells Sanjay Dixit how an outlier event was grafted onto Hindus as a mainstream practice.

Unprecedented support for the druggies of Bollywood across the Panchmakkar class shows up our celebrity and political class for what it is. Lutyens' Media is twisting and turning and MVA is behaving as i fit has lost its very mojo. Barkha Trehan joins Sanjay Dixit to recount the troll attacks she has had to face for calling out the drug menace.

Ankur Sharma, Advocate, joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the nature of Internal Security challenges in the wake of J&K, Shaheenbagh, WB post-poll violence, Farmers' siege of Delhi and Lakhimpur incident. Is there a general message of weak knees that is encouraging the known malcontents and opposition to create a situation of destabilisation and crisis?

Your favourite Tarek Singh Fatah joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss India's response to Pakistani and Khalistani challenges, and to devise effective foreign policy tools to make it punch according to its weight, and well below its weight as it is prone to doing throughout its 74 years existence.

Congress and TMC are suddenly talking about federalism once again after BSF jurisdiction in Punjab, Bengal, Rajasthan and gujarat has been brought at par. Sanjay Dixit looks at this storm in a tea cup in the context of legal provisions and past practice.

Ami Ganatra, writer of the much-acclaimed book 'Mahabharata Unravelled'  brings lessons from 3 famous Mahabharata stories -  1. The mongoose  compares Yudhishthira's piety with that of a poor Brahmin;  2.  Yudhishthira's test by the Ajgar (Nahusha), and by the Yaksha; 3.  The victimhood narrative woven by Karna around himself. Sanjay Dixit is  the host.

As predicted by Sanjay Dixit yesterday, inaction by the BJP governments  at the Centre and in the adjoining States has claimed its next victim in  a most gruesome manner. The Masterstroke obsessed ecosystem of the  rulers is creating another Bhindranwale, but too close to Delhi for  comfort. Sanjay Dixit exhorts Modi-Shah to give up their insouciance and  take the nation-breaking challenge head-on.

Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar, the man whom fate could not defeat, was the  winner of every battle. The Battle of Khanwa was a setback, but he was  thwarted from recovering his losses due to treachery within his own  camp. Omendra Ratnu showcases the stellar Sanatani warrior and traces  his role in the firmament of Great Heroes.

As the violence against non-Muslims peaks in the Kashmir Valley, Dr. Ajay Chrungoo and Sanjay Dixit join once again to point out that merely removing Art. 370 and continuing with the same Establishment was only going to yield the same result. Merely changing the cover without changing the substance has only got us the same result.

Rajesh Kumar Singh, the noted film critic, reveals the cosy relationships among the film makers and the Censor Board members. Prasoon Joshi led Board rejected the socially important movie 'The Conversion', and refused to award it any certificate. He jins Sanjay Dixit to expose the games that are played in the Bollywood to promote certain types of films and to discourage Indic films.

As the hon'ble Supreme Court lists a letter petition within 24 hours, questions are bound to be asked about its extreme unwillingness to list properly drafted PILs and extreme unwillingness to take them up in cases relating to West Bengal post-poll violence, Palghar lynching of Sadhus, and even genocide of Kashmiri Pandits. Shouldn't the PIL jurisdiction in all Courts be more transparent?

One more Khan has joined the bandwagon of selective Hindu bashing. Aamir Khan, a Bollywood dynast - son of Tahir Hussain, nephew of Nasir Hussain, and related to Abul Kalam Azad on the maternal side, started his career with the U.N.C.L.E. and posed himself as an activist and brainy guy, but his forays with the Islamists like Tariq Jameel, and his famous 'hamein India mein dar lagta hai'. Sanjay Dixit examines.

Tahir Gora and Vibhuti Jha join Sanjay Dixit to look at the less than desirable global, specially American response to the brutalities and human rights violations being inflicted every day by the Taliban even as they keep threatening even Pakistan and went to the extent of praising breaking of Somnath temple in India. The West, specially American Academia is instead busy in promoting hatred for Hindutva.

Bhau Torsekar and Omkar Chaudhary join Sanjay Dixit to discuss the strange Congress politics where they are being seen in full sympathy with the Khalistani anarchist rather than the locals who got lynched. The parties who are actually in contention - SP is relatively quiet, and BSP is almost completely quiet. Just shows how the Congress is completely off its rocker as it tries to do point score to impress its international backers while losing the UP voter completely.

In this episode of UP Dialogues, Sanjay Dixit hosts Dhirendra Pundir to discuss the brilliant crisis management by Yogi Adityanath, using a mix of hard decisions to arrest senior opposition leaders when they tried to proceed to Lakhimpur, and of empathy and guile by using Rakesh Tikait to defuse the situation. Tikait, of course, is being called a traitor by farm unions, so it's a win-win for Yogi and a plus for his campaign.

Sandeep Balakrishna joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss Lessons 7 and 8 from Hindu History in the Episode 4 of this series, i.e. Lesson 7 - The Spectre of Aurangzeb, and 8. The Seeds of Breaking India.

Sanjay Dixit brings the real story of Kheri Lakhimpur violence as more than 20 youngsters from his own village Bijua were present in Ajay Mishra's village Banveerpur for the annual Dangal (wrestling) competition. Panchmakkars and LallanTop are lying and Ajay Mishra's move to remove encroachments by Sikhs and Khalistanis from river beds and forest lands is the real provocation. Giving Tikait importance may be a brilliant short term tactic, but would be abd in the long run.

Our friend Shashi Tharoor is at it once again. He stoutly defended his friend Shah Rukh Khan and his son Aryan Khan. Sanjay Dixit reviews the case against Aryan Khan and shows why Tharoor is completely wrong.

Ask Me Anything with Sanjay Dixit - The Weekly Questions and Answers session which helps viewers interact with Sanjay Dixit and clear their doubts. Questions via SuperChat and WhatsApp Only

NRI’s and the Hindu narrative

One more Afghan dynast under trouble after Saif Ali Khan and Naseeruddin Shah has gone down the road of infamy. The grandson of Shah Nawaz Khan, who played traitor to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose to curry favour with Nehru, Shah Rukh is known for playing victim, as in his movie My Name is Khan. In that movie, he had quoted Qur'an 5.32 and 109.6 to proclaim Islam as a religion of peace. Now his son has been arrested for drugs, and is an apt tribute to the den of debauchery and anti-nationalism that Bollywood is.

Fayaz Ahmad Fyzie scored big in a debate where Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Faizan Mustafa were present. However, instead of giving counters to the sharp arguments of Fayaz, they chose to ran away, because Fayaz completely busted their victim card. Fayaz established the narrative of 'Minorities means Muslims, and Muslims means Ashraf' to the hilt. Sanjay Dixit catches up with him to get a ringside view.

Dhirendra Pundir and Abhishek Tiwari join Sanjay Dixit to discuss the ground situation in Uttar Pradesh, where there is a free season for inter-party migration and last minute announcements and policy pronouncements. What are the issues that seem to be finding resonance on the ground and how are the various parties addressing them?

A lot of people would like to portray MK Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation', even though he had no role to play by his own admission. 'British Left voluntarily', MKG said. His main contribution has been a vapid concept of Ahinsa, which he claimed to have got from Hindu shastra, without giving any evidence of the same. His politics was a disaster, his claims to sainthood dubious, and he was directly responsible for the massacre of at least 1 million Hindus in 1947 alone. Sanjay Dixit examines.

Roza-e-Pak is one of the five compulsory obligations among the Mr. Vinay Krishna Chaturvedi 'Tufail' and Neeraj Atri join Sanjay Dixit to discuss what the perfect way for observing the holy obligation.

Abhijit Chavda analyses the essentials of Chanakya principles to find out what he would have done to tackle the Pakistan and Taliban problem from the perspective of USA and also of India. Is Chanakya Niti still the greatest repository of social and political wisdom?

Imran Khan and his ministers have been in an overdrive to support Sidhu, while issuing statements in support of Taliban at the same time. 22 American senators have introduced a Bill in the Senate that could impose sanctions on Pakistan. Pakistan currency has collapsed, and Babur II has crashed. UN speech of Imran was a disaster and Pakistan media is scathing in its criticism of the Establishment. Arzoo Kazmi joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss these wide range of issues.

Omkar Chaudhary joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the moves and counter moves by Capt Amarinder Singh, Sidhu, and Channi in Punjab, and Priyanka favourite Imran Masood in UP. Also discussed will be the statements of those who exited Cong recently, such as Jitin Prasada.