The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

Finally the government told the Supreme Court it should have many moons ago - that one cannot play God sitting in the lofty colonial chambers of the colonial building of the Supreme Court. That co-governance is not envisaged in the Constitution. That there are Red Lines that cannot be breached by any Constitutional functionary. Unfortunately, it may have come a bit too late.

Islamic fundamentalism is on an upsurge through many parts of the Indian sub-continent. TLP and Sufi fundamentalism in Pakistan; Taliban and the Deobandi fanaticism in Afghanistan; and an Islamic assertion of the political kind in Indian Bengal. Tahir Gora joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss the various facets of this phenomenon and the ways to tackle this. Will denial strategy followed by governments work, or do you need to confront it head-on.

Sanjay Dixit hosts Col. RSN Singh to discuss the diabolical China conspiracy to use Corona Virua as a bioweapon and the willing consensus among parties of the opposition in India, particularly the Congress party, in order to encourage vaccine hesitancy, doubts on the national effort, and generally oppose anything and everything, even if it meant making u-turns every other day. What prevents the Centre from proclaiming internal emergency on Health grounds and curtail wanton rumour mongering, which is claiming lives.

Modi and his government has become deaf to the wails of its own workers. Instead it is calling for their sacrifices - as in swatantrata sangram. MLAs get central security, workers get upadesha. Sad to see the fall of a party once renowned for its presence in the streets.

Religion plays an important role in creating awareness of life we lead and our codes of conduct with humans and other lives around us. Are the Gods and and self appointed Godmen responsible for creating the Godzilla of hate within us?

Tufail Chaturvedi and Sanjay Dixit discuss the historical background of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the present war with Hamas. It is rightly said that nobody deals with terror the way Israel does.

Abhijit Iyer Mitra captures the present ongoing conflict and traces the background of the long standing Arab-Israeli faultline, its mutation, and its metamorphosis into almost an exclusive Arab-Iranian faultline. He also tells Sanjay Dixit the global significance of the latest Hamas offensive and Israeli reaction.

In the Episode 2 of Sitaram Goel Centenary Series, Koenraad Elst (English) and Shankar sharan (Hindi) join Sanjay dixit to discuss his famous work 'History of Hindu--Christian Encounters'. The work explores the encounters starting from Mesopotamia in the early common era to the post-independence times, when the Christians started having a free run because of the lack of any intellectual challenge. The series is sponsored by Mission Kali.

Sanjeev Newar joins Sanjay Dixit to discuss how the insidious narrative building by Bollywood has created a self loathing among Hindus. The effect is so debilitating that Hindus have almost completely abandoned their defence mechanisms at the street and mohalla level in the cities and in the villages, and have made themselves dependent on the State, which is almost always missing when the crunch comes. They also discuss how the situation can be remedied.

One of the oldest conflicts in the world, the Jew-Arab conflict, is in the news once again. The Islamic 'Master faith Syndrome' has been actively and successfully challenged by Israel right from the late 19th century. Vibhuti Jha and Sanjay Dixit look at the present conflict in the changed global scenario and how India is responding to it. Considerable sections of Indian intelligentsia, specially the ones allied to the Congress-Left-Liberal ecosystem remain hostile to Israel for purely ideological reasons but the new India is rallying behind Israel.