The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

The two most flogged narratives used to besmirch Hindus are caste and Sati. Abhijit Chavda joins Sanjay Dixit to debun the narrative built around Sati as an integral feature of Hinduism, and also deconstructs Raja Rammohan Roy as a collaborator of the British in helping build that narrative. Chavda tells Sanjay Dixit how an outlier event was grafted onto Hindus as a mainstream practice.

Unprecedented support for the druggies of Bollywood across the Panchmakkar class shows up our celebrity and political class for what it is. Lutyens' Media is twisting and turning and MVA is behaving as i fit has lost its very mojo. Barkha Trehan joins Sanjay Dixit to recount the troll attacks she has had to face for calling out the drug menace.

Ankur Sharma, Advocate, joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the nature of Internal Security challenges in the wake of J&K, Shaheenbagh, WB post-poll violence, Farmers' siege of Delhi and Lakhimpur incident. Is there a general message of weak knees that is encouraging the known malcontents and opposition to create a situation of destabilisation and crisis?

Your favourite Tarek Singh Fatah joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss India's response to Pakistani and Khalistani challenges, and to devise effective foreign policy tools to make it punch according to its weight, and well below its weight as it is prone to doing throughout its 74 years existence.

Congress and TMC are suddenly talking about federalism once again after BSF jurisdiction in Punjab, Bengal, Rajasthan and gujarat has been brought at par. Sanjay Dixit looks at this storm in a tea cup in the context of legal provisions and past practice.

Ami Ganatra, writer of the much-acclaimed book 'Mahabharata Unravelled'  brings lessons from 3 famous Mahabharata stories - 

1. The mongoose  compares Yudhishthira's piety with that of a poor Brahmin; 

2.  Yudhishthira's test by the Ajgar (Nahusha), and by the Yaksha;

3.  The victimhood narrative woven by Karna around himself. Sanjay Dixit is  the host.

As predicted by Sanjay Dixit yesterday, inaction by the BJP governments  at the Centre and in the adjoining States has claimed its next victim in  a most gruesome manner. The Masterstroke obsessed ecosystem of the  rulers is creating another Bhindranwale, but too close to Delhi for  comfort. Sanjay Dixit exhorts Modi-Shah to give up their insouciance and  take the nation-breaking challenge head-on.

Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar, the man whom fate could not defeat, was the  winner of every battle. The Battle of Khanwa was a setback, but he was  thwarted from recovering his losses due to treachery within his own  camp. Omendra Ratnu showcases the stellar Sanatani warrior and traces  his role in the firmament of Great Heroes.

As the violence against non-Muslims peaks in the Kashmir Valley, Dr. Ajay Chrungoo and Sanjay Dixit join once again to point out that merely removing Art. 370 and continuing with the same Establishment was only going to yield the same result. Merely changing the cover without changing the substance has only got us the same result.

Rajesh Kumar Singh, the noted film critic, reveals the cosy relationships among the film makers and the Censor Board members. Prasoon Joshi led Board rejected the socially important movie 'The Conversion', and refused to award it any certificate. He jins Sanjay Dixit to expose the games that are played in the Bollywood to promote certain types of films and to discourage Indic films.