The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

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-b...

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 Di...

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 Hi...

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...

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...

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 import...

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...

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 vie...

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...

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....

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.

Md. Iftikharuddin of the IAS (1985, UP cadre) has been caught with his pyjama down and skull cap on his head. Reprehensible as the exposè is, it does not surprise people in the only Muslim majority ex-State and now an UT, J&K. Tito Ganju, Editor, Epilogue News Network, tells Sanjay Dixit that this is done openly in J&K even today.

The 'unstable' Sidhu has resigned. Resignation has not been accepted. State in charge first planned a visit to Chandigarh to meet him, then they cancelled the trip. Rahul is in Kerala elaborating 'Idea of India' - as predicted by us, it's a full blown comedy of errors in Punjab, but Rahul has filled the void with Kanhaiya Kumar, even as Sidhu looks towards his friend Imran!.