Sunday, September 15, 2019

Sandeep Balakrishna

Writer, author, and translator. Author of the bestselling "Tipu Sultan: The Tyrant of Mysore," "The Madurai Sultanate: A Concise History," and "Seventy Years of Secularism." English translator of Dr. S L Bhyrappa's blockbuster Kannada novel, "Aavarana".
Commentary

Christian Conversions have Wiped Out Entire Civilisations: It’s Time to Ban Them with Immediate Effect

Recall the famous proverb about how our habits contribute to building our character? The precursor to something becoming a habit is the conscious and repeated performance of the...
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Culture

D.V. Gundappa’s Caution and Lessons to Political Leaders

D V Gundappa or DVG as he is affectionately known in Karnataka remains one of the cultural colossuses in the state, who was amidst us just...
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Culture

Leftist Destruction of the Indian Aesthetic Tradition through Institutional Capture: The Indian People’s Theatre Association

A Communist is commonly a zealot, moved by the intensity of his faith or of his personal commitment to the Party to assume the mantle of the prophet....
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Subhāṣita Sunday

Subashita Sunday Episode 7: The True Mahatma, Emerson and Society in Sanskrit Poetry

After a lull of two weeks due to unforeseen circumstances, we’re back this Sunday with another episode of the Subhashita Sunday on The Dharma Dispatch. Like always, we have...
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Culture

The Cool Ganesha of the New-Age Surgeons of Sanatana Dharma

A New Being has descended upon us. It is a noxious alloy which combines within itself the revival of that dead genre named M.F. Hussain Apologetics and the...
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Culture

A Vice Chancellor Demonstrates the Essence of Sahanāvavatu Sahanaubhunaktu

When Ananda Coomaraswamy prophetically declared about eighty years ago that education was the most unfortunate and tragic of all problems that India faced, the statement encompassed...
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The Destruction and Christianization of Carnatic Music Might Occur Sooner than Anticipated

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As expected, it has happened. There’s a proverb in Kannada which roughly means, “light up your beedi from the fire that is burning down...
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T M Krishna: The Musical Urban Naxal

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What ails T M Krishna?Wrong question. The right answer: T M Krishna is himself an ailment. To those who have followed Thodur Madabussi...
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Crushing the Heroic Hindu Spirit: Glimpses of the Real History of India

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Today is the day we commemorate the sacred memory of one of the greatest Hindu heroes of all time: Pratap Singh...
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