The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

The Mahapanchayat at Muzaffarnagar by Rakesh Tikait was the talk of the week. Dhirendra Pundir joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the goals that this event set out to achieve and the actual outcome. Was it a flop show as is being projected?

Nilesh Oak joins Sanjay Dixit to take us on a fascinating journey of events around Purnavatara Yogeshvara Shri Krishna - giving each event a timeline and clothing it with the narratives found in Srimadbhagvatam and Harivamsham.

British made Hindus and Muslims fight and and encouraged Muslims to demand Pakistan, said PPSSC Mohan Bhagwat ji. However, Dr. Ambedkar said that by their very faith, a mussulman can never accept India as his motherland, and Veer Savarkar said that this 'third party syndrome' of the British being responsible for Muslim-Hindu divide is a Congress superstition that led to many of its errors. Sanjay Dixit tries to find out which of these 3 are correct!

Major Manik Jolly discusses geopolitics taking shape from the India-Pacific to Central Asia to Middle East, and the New Great Game unfolding in the world with Sanjay Dixit and explores the place for India in this mix.

Ask Me Anything with Sanjay Dixit

Javed Akhtar Chicha finds Taliban barbaric, but also says in the same breath that BJP and RSS are also having Talibani mindset because they are for Hindu Rashtra. He does not find Owaisi barbaric though, even if he talks of rebuilding Babri mosque in place of Rama Janmabhoomi. By the way, equivalence between an Islamic State and Hindu Rashtra is a false one, because the fundamentals of an Islamic State are totalitarian and supremacist, while that of a Hindu Rashtra are inclusive and all accepting.

Looking at Pakistan's reaction to the passing away of SAS Geelani, it appears that he was one of the foremost fifth columnists. Dr. Ajay Chrungoo recalls Geelani's role in destabilising J&K as a Pakistani agent, Indian State's appeasement of him, and the similarity of his narrative with that of Taliban. The only reason Hurriyat could not become a clone of Taliban is the Indian State. He is in conversation with Sanjay Dixit.

Dilip Mandal , that renowned casteist professor, is at it again. This time he is taking up issues with Manoj Muntashir for calling Mughals what they were - plunderers and women-lifters, slave keepers and marauders. However, Mandal is trying to whitewash their crimes. Sanjay dixit examines.

Tarek singh Fatah joins Sanjay Dixit to look deep at the American 'defeat' in Afghanistan, and the reasons thereof. Was the USA targeting the wrong enemy right from the beginning? Was Hamid Gul right when he said that Pakistan would use america to defeat America?

Moved by Naseeruddin Shah's description of greatness of Indian Muslims, Sanjay Dixit decides to add to Shah's description of this greatness. Since Shah is a descendant in the line of Afghan mercenaries, SD starts off with the exploits of the first Afghans.