The Jaipur Dialogues Podcasts

With the NCERT text books exposed again, specially for saying that Aurangzeb was a patron of temples,  the issue of Aurangzeb the tolerant has exploded again. The issue would have been hilarious had it not been linked to the insidious whitewash of Islam's crimes attempted by the Marxist historians. Neeraj Atri and Tufail Chaturvedi take the dubious narrative apart.

Rajiv Malhotra has a knack for looking into the future. He can be credited with starting the Indic renaissance with his three works - Being Different, Indra's Net and Breaking India. He has now come up with a new book - Artificial Intelligence - The Future of Power: Five Battlegrounds. It analyses the disruptions that this new technology will cause in five fields - Economic Development and Jobs, Global Power, Psychological Control and Agency, Metaphysics, and India's Future. Under discussion is also the important question of intelligence and consciousness. Sanjay Dixit hosts him to discuss these exciting ideas.

Sanjay Dixit explains the Karl Popper paradox as enunciated by him in 'The Open Society and Its Enemies': Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal. Dixit picks up the 3 most often utilised tools to fool the Indians into tolerating the intolerant - vasudhaiva kutumbakam, ahimsa paramo dharmah, and ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti; and draws up their limits and boundaries.

Shantanu Gupta draws lessons from Ramayana in leadereship of Bhagwana Rama - how he chose to go to the forests to defend the downtrodden and the Rishis from the oppression of the vile, how he always led from the front, how he never compromised on the essentials, how he always maintained his composure, and how he always remained a learner. In discussion with Sanjay Dixit.

Some of the recent actions of the Biden administration, like bombing Syria and turning hostile against Saudi Arabia and Israel, seem to suggest that Joe Biden is being run by someone else, possibly the Deep State, or what is worse, by the cabal that runs the Democratic party. Vibhuti Jha and Sanjay Dixit discuss who it is that has the brains of Joe Biden under his/her command.

Sir Raul Vinci is at it again. He now states that RSS run schools are like Pakistani madarsas but he forgets to mention the Indian madarsas that churn out exactly the type that he thinks Pakistani madarsas do. However, he has no problem in allying with these madarsa parties like IUML, AUDF, SDPI, or the latest one - ISF. It has always been Congress policies since the time Congress lent its support to the Khilafat Movement, a most regressive movement to stop democracy from entering Turkey.

M Nageswara Rao, ex-IPS and ex-Director, CBI, is an extremely rooted individual. Even while in service, he was instrumental behind Equal Rights for Hindus campaign. Sanjay Dixit hosts him on the vexed issue of govt. control and Xtian assault on our temples, especially in Southern India. The colonized Indian State is overdue for decolonization and Hindus are overdue for emancipation from the Western elites. Rao has now mooted the idea of creating groups for every temple that exists. Indian civilization was always centered around its temples that were not only centers of worship, but also centers of education to all, centers of trade, commerce, culture, and community bonding. The British targeted them to weaken the civilization and the colonial Indian State just stepped into the shoes of the British.

Ex-Muslim Atheists - A Fashion Trend? - There is a mushrooming of ex-Muslim atheists on You Tube these days. While they predictably criticise Islam, they also do not let go of any opportunity to bad mouth Hinduism/Sanatana Dharma, while rarely talking about Christianity. This leaves enough room for doubt as to the mercenary nature of these activists. Neeraj Atri and Tufail Chaturvedi join Sanjay Dixit to discuss this curious phenomenon.