The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

Syed Suleiman Hussaini Nadwi, the influential cleric of the Nadwa seminary of Lucknow, which is a Deoband style seminary has come out fully with his Pakistan agenda of separatism. Like the new Jinnah, he is telling Muslims not to vote for any Hindu led parties but to vote for Muslims only. Fayaz Ahmad Fyzie is with Sanjay Dixit and he calls it the latest Ashraf separatist tactic towards compartmen...

Even as Economy recovers strongly after the Covid shock, the clueless opposition continues to attack the Modi govt. on all the wrong issues, such as asset monetisation, and of course the farm laws. Added to that are the smaller issues of privatisation of public sector, and maybe they will also have a problem with the breather given to the telecom sector yesterday. Harsh Vardhan Tripathi, the well...

Even as Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh take out Tiranga Yatra in Ayodhya and promise to bring Rama Rajya in UP, the Kalnemi CM Arvind Kejriwal once again bans firecrackers in Delhi, saying that he wants to save lives. These lives were not his concern when he was allowing Oxygen, concentrators and medicines to be stockpiled by his own MLAs and friends, and was only concerned with putting his own g...

Indian Foreign Policy towards territorial Pakistan has been characterised by 2 maxims, i.e. We cannot choose our neighbours, and a stable Pakistan is in India's interests. The territorial Pakistan, on the other hand, follows the Quranic Concept of War. There is the other ideational Pakistan within Indian territory, towards which the Indian State has a laissez faire policy, even as the AMM class is...

Jayant Kalawar, a Life coach with deep studies in European Enlightenment and Advaita Vedanta as well as in inter-relations between Physics and Social Theory, joins Sanjay Dixit and Vibhuti Jha to propose a new framework to rescue the world through Hindutva.

In the first episode of JD Legal, Sanjay Dixit discusses two recent developments, first the Tamil Nadu Bill to exempt the Medical students of TN from NEET and its constitutional validity, and second the issue that the Supreme court is discussing in the 3-Judge Bench of Justices Rao, Khana, and Gavai regarding making provisions for reservation in promotion for SC/ST in the light of the 9-Judge Benc...

Uttarakhand is witnessing a change in demography through systematic land grabs by funnelling Zakat Money. At the same time, the people who were at the helm in Uttarakhand say that 20 cr cannot be pushed into the Ocean, making it an excuse for keeping their eyes closed. This is also impacting BJP's electoral prospects in the State.

Sandeep Balakrishna begins a 5-Episode series on '10 Lessons from Hindu History' with Sanjay Dixit. In the first episode, he talks about 2 lessons - 1. Loss of Aryavarta Consciousness, and 2. Lack of Correct Identification of a New Enemy.

Minorityism in India is basically majoritarianism of big minorities, specially the largest minority, which should rightfully be called the 2nd majority. Sachwala and Azad Ground, belonging to a miniscule minority of ex-Muslims cannot come out in the open because of the threat to them by this majoritarian minority that still believes in capital punishment for apostates (Q16.106). They join Sanjay D...

Abbajaan is a perfectly parliamentary Urdu word for father, then why does Yogi remark on children of different Abbas drawing so much flak from the Panchmakkars? Sanjay Dixit traces Yogi's first dig on Akhilesh with that jibe and how the term has caused consternation from SP and Congress to Owaisi and Liberal-Leftist-Islamist axis.

Abhijit Chavda joins Sanjay Dixit to cull out seven important lessons from Indian History that should go into informing every walk of political, cultural, social and economic life. Starting from Maharani Nayaki Devi and Prithviraj Chauhan letting the terrorist Mohammad Ghori to escape with his life to the present day.

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Rahul visits Mata Vaishno Devi, calls the pindis or murtis as symbols, and then goes on to tell us how human beings empower or disempower the Devis. Saraswati Mata disempowered by RSS/BJP appointees, Lakshmi Mata by demonetisation and GST, and Durga Mata by farm laws. Rahul of course has the power to give them back the power. Sanjay Dixit explores the profound thinking of baba log.

9/11 is not known just for the WTC attack by Al Qaeda, but also for the soul stirring address to the World Parliament of Religion in 1893 by Swami Vivekananda. Sanjay Dixit contrasts the two events and anchors the future of the world with Sanatana values.

The Bharatiya Sanskriti icon, Sonal Mansingh, Padma Vibhushan and Rajya Sabha MP, brings out important ‘Lessons of Leadership’ from Mahabharata in this talk with Sanjay Dixit.

Hassan Nisar, the well known Pakistani intellectual has kicked up a storm by openly advocating that Pakistan should accept Israel as a State and forget its claims on Kashmir. Arzoo Kazmi has publicly supported that stance. Sanjay Dixit catches up with her to find her side of the story and to also check on her take on Afghan women.

The new Taliban Govt. will take office on 9/11, and is cast in the shadow of Pakistan. Meanwhile, a section of American Academia will be targeting Global Hindutva on 9/11. Arif Aajakia joins Sanjay Dixit for his take on the inexorable global urge to be deceived by Pakistan and to look for reasons and scapegoats everywhere except in the place where the roots are.

Asset Monetisation has been rubbished by the opposition as 'sale of family silver' by the opposition. Karan Bhasin clears up the fog around the issue to show how it is going to contribute to growth, and to keeping the economic indices robust. He also deals with the V-shape recovery in GDP and other current economic issues.

In a departure from convention, a Sikh, Iqbal Singh Lalpura has been appointed as Chairman of the Minorities Commission, called NCM. It is only for the third time in 43 years that a non-Muslim has been appointed as Chairman. Minoo Masani in 1978 was the first Chairman, but quit after 3 months. Sardar Tarlochan Singh was appointed in 2003 by ABV govt. Sanjay Dixit traces the history of minority pol...

The Mahapanchayat at Muzaffarnagar by Rakesh Tikait was the talk of the week. Dhirendra Pundir joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the goals that this event set out to achieve and the actual outcome. Was it a flop show as is being projected?

Nilesh Oak joins Sanjay Dixit to take us on a fascinating journey of events around Purnavatara Yogeshvara Shri Krishna - giving each event a timeline and clothing it with the narratives found in Srimadbhagvatam and Harivamsham.

British made Hindus and Muslims fight and and encouraged Muslims to demand Pakistan, said PPSSC Mohan Bhagwat ji. However, Dr. Ambedkar said that by their very faith, a mussulman can never accept India as his motherland, and Veer Savarkar said that this 'third party syndrome' of the British being responsible for Muslim-Hindu divide is a Congress superstition that led to many of its errors. Sanjay...

Major Manik Jolly discusses geopolitics taking shape from the India-Pacific to Central Asia to Middle East, and the New Great Game unfolding in the world with Sanjay Dixit and explores the place for India in this mix.

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Javed Akhtar Chicha finds Taliban barbaric, but also says in the same breath that BJP and RSS are also having Talibani mindset because they are for Hindu Rashtra. He does not find Owaisi barbaric though, even if he talks of rebuilding Babri mosque in place of Rama Janmabhoomi. By the way, equivalence between an Islamic State and Hindu Rashtra is a false one, because the fundamentals of an Islamic...