Spotlight

Kalinath Baba: The Clairvoyant Sadhu

16 hours ago

5 min read

Gopinath Kaviraj narrates an incredible incident of meeting Sri Kalinath Baba in Kashi. This sadhu was endowed with astonishing powers of clairvoyance.

History Vignettes

How the Blazing Eloquence of Acharya Kavindra Became a Moonlit Service to Sanatana Dharma

Sandeep Balakrishna

19 May 2020

9 min read

Notes On Culture

Revisiting the Radio Station in Rang De Basanti: A Case Study in Bollywood Communist Propaganda

Sandeep Balakrishna

29 Apr 2020

15 min read

Notes On Culture

In the Company of Sadhus: Sri Sri Naga Baba, the Digambara Sadhu of Varanasi

Team Dharma Dispatch

09 Jan 2023

4 min read

Commentary

Hindu Dharma on Trial: The Sinister Project of Equality Labs

Rami N Desai

29 Jul 2022

7 min read

Commentary

The Psychotic Congress Hatred of Veer Savarkar Explained

Sandeep Balakrishna

28 May 2020

8 min read

History Vignettes

How Nehru’s Fascination for Verrier Elwin Helped Christianise India’s North East

Sandeep Balakrishna

08 Mar 2018

8 min read

History Vignettes

Worse than Asuras: How the British Inflicted Hunger on Indians by Killing Dharma-Chhatrams

Sandeep Balakrishna

03 Aug 2024

8 min read

Notes On Culture

The Concept of Širk: What it Meant Before the Advent of Islam

Koenraad Elst

12 Aug 2019

23 min read

History Vignettes

The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World

Sandeep Balakrishna

11 Nov 2020

5 min read

Commentary

The Devala-Smriti: A Brief Introduction

Sandeep Balakrishna

19 Aug 2025

5 min read

History Vignettes

How Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Ousted Dr. B.R. Ambedkar from the Cabinet: The Full Story

Team Dharma Dispatch

14 Apr 2019

19 min read

History Vignettes

Sri Krishnadevaraya’s Empire of Fragrance and Food

Sandeep Balakrishna

11 Oct 2019

5 min read

Notes On Culture

Mathas, Ghatikas, Agraharas and Aalayas as Kernels of Sacred Sanatana Education

Sandeep Balakrishna

18 May 2022

5 min read

Notes On Culture

When S. Subramania Iyer Exposed a Corrupt Mahant

Sandeep Balakrishna

16 Feb 2022

5 min read

Commentary

Introduction to The Theory and Practice of Marxist History Writing in India: Indira Gandhi's Forgotten Time Capsule

Shankar Saran

11 Jan 2020

8 min read

History Vignettes

What Sitaram ji Said: An Introduction

Sandeep Balakrishna

01 Oct 2018

5 min read

History Vignettes

The Verse that Heralded a Half Century of the Splendid Reign of Paramara Bhoja Raja

Sandeep Balakrishna

11 Aug 2020

11 min read

History Vignettes

Turushka-Danda: A Hindu Fiscal Response to Early Islamic Invasions

Sandeep Balakrishna

21 Aug 2021

4 min read

A little-known fact of Hindu history that shows how the mighty Gahadavala Empire built a solid deterrent against alien Islamic invasions using a fiscal measure called the Turushka-Danda.

Dispatches

"Kshatra: The Tradition of Valour in India" — The Book that Must Adorn Every Hindu Home

Sandeep Balakrishna

21 Jul 2023

6 min read

The English adaptation of Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh's Kannada bestseller, Bharateeya Kshatra Parampare or "Kshatra: The Tradition of Valour in India" is now available for preorder. It is a seminal wo ...

Commentary

Lighting Lamps versus Violent Punishment: A Slice of Hindu Jurisprudence

Sandeep Balakrishna

10 Jul 2025

4 min read

Hindu jurisprudence prescribed atonement for criminals over violent punishment

Notes On Culture

The Magnitude of the Irretrievable Sanatana Civilisational Loss in Pakistan

Sandeep Balakrishna

09 Mar 2020

5 min read

Not a single work of the Veda, Dharmasastras and other Sanskrit Literature composed in Sindh and northwestern Bharatavarsha has survived today

Notes On Culture

DVG: A Tribute to the "Vanasuma" or the Forest-Flower who Taught the Yoga of Life

Sandeep Balakrishna

17 Mar 2020

13 min read

A tribute to the legendary D.V.Gundappa or DVG on his 138th birthday

History Vignettes

The Awesome Commercial Highway Networks of Ancient Bharatavarsha

Sandeep Balakrishna

29 Oct 2024

4 min read

This episode narrates the extraordinary commercial highway networks of ancient Bharatavarsha and how the continuity of these routes were preserved intact till the downfall of the Mughal Empire.