Sandeep Balakrishna

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The Making of Chanakya: Episode 6: Alexander and the Chanakya Plot Development

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 6: Alexander and the Chanakya Plot Development

This is the sixth episode of a multipart series of interviews with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the creator of the Chanakya Television Series that aired on Doordarshan between September 1991 – August 1992. The hallmark of a classic work of art is an innate trait in it to have universal appeal transcending

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 5: Casting and Plot Development

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 5: Casting and Plot Development

This is the fifth episode of a multipart series of interviews with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the creator of the Chanakya Television Series that aired on Doordarshan between September 1991 – August 1992. The hallmark of a classic work of art is an innate trait in it to have universal appeal transcending

Aparigraha: India’s Unique Value Contribution to World Culture

Aparigraha: India’s Unique Value Contribution to World Culture

It is only befitting to begin this essay with that timeless opening sloka of the first of the ten principal Upanishads, the Ishavasyam. ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् । तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथाः मागृधः

How Indira Gandhi Systematically Targetted Ramnath Goenka

How Indira Gandhi Systematically Targetted Ramnath Goenka

Read Part 1: How Ramnath Goenka Outwitted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at her Own Game: A Preface Does the name Paul von Hindenburg mean anything? Does it even figure in the proverbial, “popular imagination” across the globe? In fact, does it even evoke any reaction in a majority section of

Did Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Really get India her Freedom?

Did Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Really get India her Freedom?

After 150 years, the people of India are still groping in the dark to pinpoint the exact legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi thanks to reams of propaganda that has managed to obfuscate several important truths that would provide us a clear picture about the man. Any honest attempt at this

The Journalism of D V Gundappa in a Post-Journalism World

The Journalism of D V Gundappa in a Post-Journalism World

Nothing should disgust us anymore. Not even this headline and the accompanying puff piece written by ace dynasty toady, Sanjay K Jha. That the slobbering piece written by the slobbering dynasty toady is completely along expected lines given how he’s the living embodiment of the proverb, “more loyal than

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 4: Recreating Chanakya’s Bharatavarsha

This is the fourth episode of a multipart series of interviews with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the creator of the Chanakya Television Series that aired on Doordarshan between September 1991 – August 1992. The hallmark of a classic work of art is an innate trait in it to have universal appeal transcending

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 3: Rajiv Gandhi and the Doordarshan Bureaucracy

The Making of Chanakya: Episode 3: Rajiv Gandhi and the Doordarshan Bureaucracy

This is the third episode of a multipart series of interviews with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the creator of the Chanakya Television Series that aired on Doordarshan between September 1991 – August 1992. The hallmark of a classic work of art is an innate trait in it to have universal appeal transcending

How the Dravidianists Invented Kalabhras and Poisoned Tamil Public Discourse

How the Dravidianists Invented Kalabhras and Poisoned Tamil Public Discourse

For a backgrounder, read the following essays: 1. How the Dravidianists Ravaged the Tamil Heritage and Gifted Tamil Nadu to the Global Church 2. An Encounter with a 55 BCE Lemurian alias Dravidian alias Periyarist Among the enduring myths in which the Dravidianists repose supreme faith, the story of the

Kalyan Singh: A Civilisational Hero for all Seasons and Reasons

Kalyan Singh: A Civilisational Hero for all Seasons and Reasons

Kalyan Singh remains one of the towering heroes of the Rama Janmabhoomi Movement and an unswerving devotee of Sri Ramachandra