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WISHING ALL OUR readers and patrons a very happy and prosperous Gregorian New Year. Our New Year will arrive four months from now, on Yugadi.
As has been customary ever since The Dharma Dispatch launched, we present the top ten most-read articles on our journal in 2024. As always, thank you for your continued support to our sacred work.
Happy Reading!
Unsurprisingly, this essay has occupied the top slot for the most read and shared article on The Dharma Dispatch. It owes to the fact that the musical urban naxal, T.M. Krishna was constantly in the news almost throughout 2024 for all the wrong reasons. His serial invasions against the sanctity of Carnatic classical music and his attempts to taint the legacy of M.S. Subbulakshmi have deservedly earned him the fury of all genuine rasikas and votaries of Sanatana Dharma.
The revelations that Tirumala laddoos -- the sacred prasadam -- were laced with animal fat were one of the most hotly-debated and chilling topics of 2024. Among other things, they showed how a committed Christian, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy -- former Andhra Chief Minister -- allowed the near-total usurpation of Tirumala by Christian missionaries. But on the broader plane, this also revealed the frightening grip that the conversion machinery has over Andhra Pradesh.
This is a brief profile of the legendary Carnatic classical exponent, Smt. Bangalore Nagaratnamma, who attained immortality for her selfless service to build a memorial for Tyagaraja Swami in Thiruvaiyaru, where he attained Samadhi.
This essay brings out the last days of this great Sadhvi, narrated by another legend, DVG, in a highly moving fashion.
A multipart series critically analysing the much-celebrated friendship of Duryodhana and Karna. Based entirely on the original Mahabharata, this series attempts to show that in reality, there was no friendship between the two in the true sense of the word.
We're happy to note that this essay series is among the most frequently searched articles on The Dharma Dispatch.
This is an in-depth commentary on half a decade of the sordid misrule of Jagan Mohan Reddy, the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the dire lessons it holds for democracy.
Jagan Mohan Reddy's chief ministership was the closest to an unbridled despotism that any state has witnessed after India attained independence.
T.M. Krishna makes his appearance for a second time in this list of the most read articles on The Dharma Dispatch in 2024. This time, in an essay exploring the notoriety that Madras Music Academy earned by awarding the prestigious Sangita Kalanidhi to T.M. Krishna.
It is clear that the global forces of the Far Left ecosystem have upped their ante in ensuring that they completely capture all hoary institutions dedicated to promoting and preserving Carnatic Classical music.
This is an expose revealing a secret directive sent by H.S. Khan, a deputy of the infamous Nurul Hasan, India's Education Minister under Indira Gandhi. This official directive is at the root of the de-Hinduisation of NCERT's history syllabus and the textbooks that followed as a consequence.
In 1992, Arjun Singh, the Human Resources Minister, ordered the Archeological Survey of India to halt the excavations at the site of the disputed structure in Ayodhya in order to appease the Congress party's Muslim vote bank. This is a story that has received little attention.
This is still one of the most searched and shared stories in The Dharma Dispatch.
Sarojini Naidu famously declared that it cost the nation a lot to keep Gandhi poor. In 1932, Mohandas Gandhi stayed for several weeks in the home of Sarat Chandra Bose in Calcutta as his esteemed guest. And poor Bose had a firsthand experience of not just the cost of feeding Gandhi, but the full horrors that accompanied this endeavour.
The behaviour exhibited by Gandhi and his disciples in the home of Sarat Chandra Bose was witnessed by Nirad C. Chaudhuri. He has left behind vivid details of the whole charade.
This long form essay traces the origins of the ubiquitous Indian dish, Idly. It narrates the story of how idly gained worldwide prominence over the last century. Until the early 20th century, Idly was not the dish of even the masses of South India. The full credit for popularising Idly goes to the Indian Railways and Palghat Iyers.
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