Spotlight

The Case of Michel Danino: Examining Judicial Overreach

14 Mar 2026

5 min read

Michel Danino has created a substantial and qualitative scholarly legacy in his own lifetime and continues quietly on his chosen path away from public glare, any temptations of celebrity

Commentary

How Dhurandhar has Unravelled Pakistani Stooges in India

Sandeep Balakrishna

16 Dec 2025

6 min read

History Vignettes

Insurgencies of the North East: Introduction

Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan

16 Feb 2019

4 min read

History Vignettes

The Tears of the Poralavoor Adithiri and Rama Varma’s Victory Against Tipu Sultan

Sandeep Balakrishna

10 Nov 2023

5 min read

History Vignettes

Here it is: A Ready Reckoner of Aurangzeb’s Industrial-Scale Temple Destructions

Team Dharma Dispatch

23 May 2022

8 min read

Commentary

Ghar-Wapsi: Meos, Malkana Rajputs and a Saga of Missed Opportunities

Sandeep Balakrishna

28 Aug 2025

5 min read

Commentary

Rajaji vs. Nehru: The Untold Story of the Scholar-Statesman Who Defied the Congress Establishment

Sandeep Balakrishna

07 Mar 2026

9 min read

Notes On Culture

A Brief History of the Breathtaking Belur Chennakeshava Temple

Sandeep Balakrishna

19 Apr 2021

6 min read

Commentary

Ram Swarup’s Skewering of the Myth of the Liberal Muslim

Sandeep Balakrishna

28 Feb 2024

6 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

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

History Vignettes

The Moplah Genocide of the Malabar Hindus: Setting the Record Straight

Sandeep Balakrishna

06 Jul 2020

6 min read

The first part of a series documenting the genocide of Malabar Hindus by the Moplahs

Commentary

From Visvesvarayya to Siddaramaiah: A Brief History of Destruction

Sandeep Balakrishna

19 Jul 2024

7 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

How the All India Progressive Writers' Association was Used as a Communist Vehicle to Bulldoze Indian Literature

Sandeep Balakrishna

02 Nov 2020

6 min read

Commentary

DVG's Portrait of the Servility of State Congress Ministers to the High Command

Sandeep Balakrishna

14 Oct 2023

3 min read

Notes On Culture

Celebrating the Vedic Cultural Stalwarts in Our Midst: Ghanapati Rajagopala Sarma

Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh

14 Sep 2022

5 min read

History Vignettes

Reclaiming Sanatana Spaces: A Profound Lesson from the Mandsaur Silk-Weavers Guild

Sandeep Balakrishna

14 Jul 2025

7 min read

History Vignettes

When Hindu Women Sold Their Jewels to Fight Mahmud Ghazni

Team Dharma Dispatch

29 Apr 2021

5 min read

A deliberately hidden fact of the history of alien Muslim invasions into India is how, on several occasions, Hindus across India displayed vigorous national unity against a common enemy. The poorer cl ...

Notes On Culture

“I Wear only the Skin that Parameshwara has Given me!” Celebrating a Spotless Devotee of Shiva

Team Dharma Dispatch

22 May 2024

7 min read

The iconic D.V. Gundappa brings alive a highly evocative, moving and ennobling profile of a spotless Bhakta of Shiva eponymously named "Shiva Pooje" Naranappa.

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 Fragrant History of the World of Ancient Indian Perfumes

Sandeep Balakrishna

20 Oct 2020

5 min read

A brief history of the magnificent world of ancient Indian perfumes and cosmetics lost in time. India was the world leader in the perfume industry for more than five hundred years.

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.

Notes On Culture

Decoding the Many Versions of the Ramayana

Arjun Bharadwaj

12 Aug 2024

6 min read

Much confusion, debates and distortions have occurred owing to the hundreds of versions and retellings of the Ramayana that have appeared in all Indian (and foreign) languages. This episode begins a d ...