The Dharma Dispatch

The Story of Manasa Devi the Naga Goddess of Bhagirathi
By
Team Dharma Dispatch
5 min read
The unknown folklore of Manasa Devi, the snake-goddess worshipped in the Bhagirathi-Hooghly region about a century ago.
Illustration of the Ramayana
By
Arjun Bharadwaj
5 min read
A.K. Ramanujan's infamous essay "300 Ramayanas," was a deliberate fabrication to rob Maharshi Valmiki's authorship of the Sanskrit original
Bangalore Nagaratnamma: A Life Dedicated to Tyagaraja
By
Team Dharma Dispatch
8 min read
This is an abridged English translation of D.V. Gundappa's brilliant and moving profile of Bangalore Nagaratnamma, a musician par excellence who built a memorial for Tyagaraja in Tiruvayur.
Illustration of Hampi
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
6 min read
For centuries, Kishkinda was a sacred Kshetra, the abode of Hanuman. Its environs birthed the great Hindu Empire of Vijayanagara. Over the last three decades, its sanctity has been almost completely e ...
Sita Ram Goel
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
13 min read
As the much-awaited Bhoomi Puja takes place tomorrow at Ayodhya, an essay commemorating the outstanding contribution made by the fine scholar and historian Sita Ram Goel to Hindu civilisational resurg ...
P.K. Gode: The Scholar who Descended from a Lineage of Warriors
By
Sandeep Balakrishna
3 min read
P.K. Gode's ancestor was Naro Rayaji Gode, who served in the Maratha Empire under Gangadhar Krishna Pratinidhi in the 18th century. P.K. Gode has painstakingly traced his family's history using the fr ...
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