The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

Putting all rumours to rest, Amit Shah went to Lucknow yesterday to announce Yogi Adityanath as the CM face for UP Elections 2022. Not only this, he actually gave the reasons for the same. This was huge, but most people have failed to notice it. Sanjay Dixit analyses the momentous event.

The RSS Sar Karyavah (General Secretary) recently said that RSS is neither Left nor right, and has borrowed many ideas from the Leftists. RSS does follow the structure and pattern of pushing its agenda on to the Hindus very much in the manner of Leftists. It also seems to want to become the sole voice of Hindus without addressing their main issues, much like a Hindu Church. Sandeep Deo, the biographer of Guru Golwalkar, is with Sanjay Dixit to discuss the ideological confusion of the RSS as reflected in its sapta siddhanta (seven principles) towards Abrahamics.

Neena Rai joins Sanjay Dixit to tell the history of Ayodhya from the ancient times based on her recent book - 'Amazing Ayodhya - The Splendid Ancient City of Lord Rama'. In 6 parts, she covers the antiquity, location, layout, inner design, weaponry, and war/pet animals of the great city of Ayodhya.

It was expected that Taliban's victory would strengthen Pakistan Army so much that they would not only be able to free up resources from their western borders, but would also be able to augment them through Taliban and mount a big assault on J&K. However, things as they unfold with TTP strengthening, Taliban refusing to recognise Durand Line and TLP going berserk within Pakistan, they are having to withdraw resources from LoC to deploy in the West. Tufail Chaturvedi  joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss whether Pakistan will survive as a Republic.

Jihad has at least 4 dimensions - narrative, indoctrination, propaganda, and terror. What we saw after Pakistan's win against India is the dimension of narrative building that Allah destroys kufr. It starts with assertion, and is followed by repetition, corroboration and manufactured evidence. Similarly terror starts with encroachment, followed by expansion, RULLS (random unceasing low level scattered violence, and then big violence. Indoctrination and propaganda have similar levels. Sanjay Dixit analyses the event from an Islamic point of view.

Why do IAS/IPS officers act the way they do in the last 10 years of their service, and in the 5 years after retirement. The fall from grace and a total waste of capacity and ability, largely self inflicted, needs wider discussion. Sanjay Dixit and Ajit Kumar Singh, 2 IAS officers who had the talent to become self employed discuss the curious phenomenon.

Nawab Malik's fulminations against Sameer Wankhede have less to do with any default on his part and more to do with violation of Islamic principles of marriage. How dare a Dalit marry a Muslim girl and not convert, and then the son arrests Nawab's, a relative, son-in-law. Violation of Shari'a is the issue here.

Ruchir Sharma and Vibhuti Jha join Sanjay Dixit to deep dive into the so-called Western Universal Values, that includes western democracy and and its accompanying coloniality. That also brings the important question of the future of democracy all over the world, and also the desirability of Westminster model in India.

The Kashmir Sufism extolled by Home Minister of India Amit Shah was brought in by a conversion zealot called Bulbul shah, who was followed by the bigot Shah-e-Hamadan aka Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani of the Kubarawiya Sufi order, whose son enforced the code of Shah-e-Hamadan in Kashmir, similar to the Zimma of Omar. The gift culminated in Aurangzeb, who became a follower of the Sufi Naqshbandi Order, and got Fatawa alamgiri written. Sanjay Dixit unveils parts of Fatawa Alamgiri to show what the gift of Sufism means.

One of the biggest subversions of the Indian mind, the Aryan Invasion Theory, was coined to not just colonise the Indian mind, but also create a class of colonial sepoys who would carry out the divisive and colonising agenda of the colonial master, the Aryan-Dravidian divide as well as the imposed 'caste system'. Dr. Shiv Shastry and Abhijit Chavda join Sanjay Dixit to give a 360 degrees overview, and also give a bird's eye view of the latest developments.