The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

Richa Gautam and Vibhuti Jha join Sanjay Dixit to make sense of the Pew Research findings about India, especially with regard to their attitudes towards their social behaviour. Was the survey just a routine exercise, or something beyond that?

Shri Shivbharat is a unique work by Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje's contemporary, whom some also call his friend, Kavindra Paramananda. It has been translated in Marathi, and is treated as one of the most authentic source of Shiva Raje's life. The work is also important as it debunks the secularisation of Shivaji's lore by the Leftis-Congressi cabal. Sanjay Dixit launches the initiative.

The question fogs everyone's mind. Why was Amit Shah handed the Ministry of Cooperation. Bhau Torsekar and Omkar Chaudhary look at the Maharashtra and UP politics and try to find an answer.

All the parties in Jammu - BJP, INC, Panthers Party and Ikk Jutt Jammu - have demanded that 2011 Census should not be the benchmark for Delimitation of Assembly seats. Ankur Sharma joins Sanjay Dixit to explain the ramifications.

The book that has raised so much storm - The Meeting of Minds by Iftikhar Ahmad Khan is full of the usual cliches including all the platitudes that Deoband and Tablighis have been mouthing all along. Only the most naïve would get taken in by its contents. Shankar Sharan and Sanjay Dixit discuss.

MVA is now considering an anti-Hindu law called Tahaffuz-e-Namoosat-e-Risallah Bill, that is meant to officially recognise the concept of Islamophobia, i.e. no free speech against Islam. Sanjay Dixit explains how Islamic groups work.

Modi Stole my Mask

Episode 48 of Ask Me Anything - Sanatana Darshana, Philosophies of the world religions, international relations, Indian politics, sports, law, education - anything and everything.

Dilip Kumar was the first super star of Bollywood, but did he ever cease being Yusuf Khan? He brought the natural style of acting into Indian Cinema, discarding the old theatrical style, but did he ever cease being a Pakistan sympathiser, even accepting their highest civilian honour, equivalent to Bharat Ratna. Sardar Ravi Ranjan Singh has a lot of revealing facts about the Pakistan Ratna Yusuf Khan in this interaction with Sanjay Dixit.

Even though both UCC and Population Control Law are secular laws, the Ashraf-Mulla-Maulana class is already viewing it as a threat to them - because even true secularism is dangerous for them. What they want is continuation of privileges in the name of secularism, while promoting self loathing among the Hindus. Do you know that the Muslims in most part of India were following Hindu laws till 1937, when the AMM class brought them all under a Uniform Muslim Code through the Application of Shariat Act, 1937.