Spotlight

What Karl Marx Wrote: The Puri Jagannatha Temple is a Centre of Murder and Prostitution

23 May 2023

4 min read

A revealing nugget from history shows how Karl Marx had ingested Christian Missionary propaganda about Hindu Dharma and wrote elaborate essays based on this propaganda.

Illustration of Jawaharlal Nehru in a Muslim Court

History Vignettes

Nawab Nehru’s Undying Love for Muslim Despotism Exposed Threadbare

Team Dharma Dispatch

14 Jan 2026

5 min read

Commentary

How the Marxist Historians Fooled the Country Without Doing any Research on Hindu Temple Destructions

Shankar Saran

22 Jan 2020

6 min read

Notes On Culture

How the Vatican’s Mission to Colonise Bharatavarsha was Strengthened by Teresa

Sandeep Balakrishna

18 Feb 2019

9 min read

History Vignettes

Bahadur Shah Zafar: The Last Mughal who was also the Last Great Traitor

Sandeep Balakrishna

17 Feb 2021

7 min read

Commentary

The Dark Side of a "Classic": Why Pather Panchali is Overrated Poverty Porn

Sandeep Balakrishna

29 Mar 2026

5 min read

Commentary

Jadunath Sarkar’s Confessions as a History Teacher

Team Dharma Dispatch

23 Dec 2024

4 min read

Commentary

BIMARU, Cow Belt and the War of Narratives

Sandeep Balakrishna

29 Mar 2021

6 min read

Dispatches

Padmasimha in Chittorgarh: An Excerpt from Jahangir's Messenger

Team Dharma Dispatch

05 Jan 2026

5 min read

History Vignettes

How the Murky World of The Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) Massacred Indian History and Triumphed

Sandeep Balakrishna

24 Dec 2019

6 min read

Commentary

Wanted: An Honest Body of Literary Fiction about the Partition of India

Sandeep Balakrishna

16 Aug 2021

5 min read

Notes On Culture

The Controversial Episodes in the Ramayana Demystified

Arjun Bharadwaj

14 Aug 2024

5 min read

Several famous and popular episodes and stories in the Ramayana are actually interpolations added to the epic over time. This essay unravels some major such episodes using evidence-backed scholarship. ...

History Vignettes

The Nehruvian and Marxist Slaughter of Hindu Inscriptional Studies

Sandeep Balakrishna

05 Dec 2022

4 min read

History Vignettes

When Homi J Bhabha’s Grandfather Saved an Endangered Sanskrit Pathashala in Kolar

Sandeep Balakrishna

14 Nov 2022

7 min read

Illustration of the sacred city of Somanatha in ancient times

History Vignettes

Never Forget! How Mahmud of Ghazni Devastated the Original Somanatha Temple

Sandeep Balakrishna

11 Jan 2026

6 min read

History Vignettes

Mohandas Gandhi Orders the Indian National Congress to Succumb to Moplah Jihadis in the Infamous Resolution No. 3

Sandeep Balakrishna

18 Jul 2019

7 min read

History Vignettes

Tarikh-i-Habibi: The Dénouement of Irfan Habib

Sandeep Balakrishna

07 Jan 2020

9 min read

Commentary

Subverting the True History of India: How Jawaharlal Nehru and his Cronies Sidelined Prof R.C. Majumdar

Sandeep Balakrishna

16 May 2019

8 min read

History Vignettes

How Kohat was Entirely Cleansed of its Hindu Population: The Tragic Finale

Sandeep Balakrishna

23 Aug 2019

7 min read

Illustration of a Scholar of Indian History working on the Field

Notes On Culture

The Superhuman Labours of the Pioneers of Indian History

Sandeep Balakrishna

14 May 2025

5 min read

The pioneers of Indian history faced extraordinary hazards in their quest for original historical sources like inscriptions, coins and documents

History Vignettes

Saartha: Ancient India's Travelling Multinational Corporations

Sandeep Balakrishna

31 Oct 2024

3 min read

It can be said that the Saartha was the first system of mobile MNCs to originate from Bharatavarsha

Notes On Culture

The Enduring Possibilities of the Vasistha-Visvamitra Story and a Contrast with Leo Tolstoy

Sandeep Balakrishna

08 Jun 2022

6 min read

Maharshi Valmiki has given us a timeless raw material in his Vasistha-Visvamitra story. A contrast with Leo Tolstoy's popular fable shows a clear contrast between Bharatavarsha and the Christian West. ...

Commentary

From Trading in Illegal Arms to Treason: The Congress Timeline that led to Framing Col Purohit

Sandeep Balakrishna

08 Aug 2025

8 min read

Framing Lt. Colonel Purohit, a high-ranking Army officer, was the culmination of the Congress party's trajectory of corruption leading to treason

History Vignettes

Ancient Indian Guilds as Banks and Trusts: The Final Episode

Sandeep Balakrishna

04 Jul 2022

6 min read

The final episode of this series on the business and corporate history of India offers details of how guilds also acted as banks and executors of trusts and wills.