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Episode 6 of The Dharma Podcast mega series narrating the Marxist destruction of Indian History narrates the long, toxic and distortionist career of Irfan Habib.

Irfan Habib has been the most vocal propagandist of rewriting Indian history to force-fit it into Karl Marx’s wild theories. He has also been the most vicious denouncer of the RSS, Hindutva and Hindu Dharma. In one of his articles, he has called Hindu nationalism as a disease.

For decades, Irfan Habib treated the Aligarh Muslim University as his personal fiefdom. He has awarded and promoted those who toed his line and destroyed the careers of those who merely disagreed with him.

Irfan Habib was Chairman of the Indian Council for Historical Research for a record FIVE TIMES! Like Romila Thapar and her ilk, he used the ICHR as a private bank, enriching himself on Indian taxpayer money.

Habib's history books are a mass of falsehoods and dubious interpretations calculated to serve the cause of Marxism, not objective history. His tactics of sidelining and conspiring against his own colleagues are hardly befitting an academic. Irfan Habib's role in the Ayodhya episode deserves a special mention.

This episode cites from the copious speeches and writings of Irfan Habib in this regard and shows him to be a staunch anti-Hindu.

Do listen to the whole podcast that contains revealing information and rare anecdotes exposing the voluminous misdeeds and distortions committed by Irfan Habib.

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EPISODE 5 of our mega series narrating the Marxist destruction of Indian History exposes the distortions and falsehoods propagated by Romila Thapar.

A committed Communist ideologue, Romila Thapar wrote brazen lies about Indian history throughout her life. Common themes found in her history writing include the wholesale demonisation of Sanatana Dharma and whitewashing the fanatical destructions of Hindu temples by Muslim invaders.

This podcast episode takes up specific examples from Romila Thapar's history books and unravels her falsehoods with concrete rebuttals. It is really quite amazing that Romila Thapar has managed to write an entire book on ancient India without knowing a single syllable of Sanskrit.

This podcast has been a long-awaited episode by our audience, and we are more than happy to oblige.

Do listen to the whole podcast that offers invaluable insights and exposes the mountains of lies that Romila Thapar has written about Indian history.

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AS THE ONLY SURVIVING non-Abrahamic civilisation, Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism continues to face an existential threat from global forces determined to exterminate it. Apart from Islamism and the Christian missionary apparatus, Communism which has reincarnated as Left Liberalism and Wokeism has reemerged as a lethal force threatening the Hindu civilisation at multiple levels.

Yet, Hindu history shows that for more than a millennium of such sustained assaults, Hindus triumphed and even today form the majority in India. The triumph came at enormous cost of continuous defensive warfare and immeasurable self-sacrifice. But there are valuable lessons to be learnt for our own time from this history of victorious survival.

This podcast delves into an vast treasure trove encompassing Hindu philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita and expounds on the innate strengths of the Hindu civilisation and society and gives a fourfold practical approach to recover the lost Hindu self-confidence in order to combat the forces of Wokeism wreaking havoc across the globe. The discourse in this podcast is a veritable masterclass.

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THE FIRST RECORDED ALIEN INVASION OF INDIA began with Alexander and ended with Ahmad Shah Adbali (Durrani). From faraway Greece to neighbouring Afghanistan. Throughout this prolonged timepsan, India had been subjected to scores of such alien invasions and finally ended up losing her freedom first to Turkic Muslim invaders and then to the colonial British. 

However, during the same period,not one alien rule managed to permanently damage Bharatavarsha's civilisational core enconsced within her Vedantic kernel.

 In just about half an hour, this podcast narrates the full story of India's eventual civilisational triumph. It covers a broad sweep of this history, giving rare anecdotes and precious insights generally not found in mainstream narratives.

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THE UNAMBIGUOUS VERDICT of the century-long history of Communism in India is this: Communism has been a force for absolute evil for the country. One hundred plus years of Communism in India is also the history of insurrections against the Indian state.

Despite overwhelming evidence available in public domain, this contemporary history of the Communist cultural genocide in India has never been told to at least four generations of Indian children.

Unless the complete and true history of Communism in India is introduced on an urgent basis in school textbooks, it will further erode whatever civilisational strength India has still managed to retain.

Listen to this episode to learn the full story!

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MULTAN, NOW IN PAKISTAN, is home to the world’s largest repository of Sufi shrines. Its original names were Moolasthana, Kashyapura and Kaspatryus, mentioned by the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus.

Multan was also the first major ancient Tirthakshetra to be ravaged by Muhammad bin Qasim who desecrated the grand Aditya temple in the city.

But there was another equally sacred temple in Multan: the Prahladapuri temple. The history of the Prahladapuri temple is painfully similar to the tragic history of all Hindu temples in the landmass now known as Pakistan.

After Multan was thoroughly Islamicised, the Prahladapuri Temple was the only place of Hindu worship in the city.

In 1831, it was protected by a small garrison of Sikhs against great odds. The temple survived in this perilous fashion for nearly 150 years after this.

In the 1970s, the Pakistan Government took over the temple and built a Madrassa in its premises.

In 1992, a fanatical Muslim mob completely demolished the temple.

This podcast episode narrates the full historical backdrop to the fortunes of the Prahladpuri temple and the lessons it teaches us.

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THIS EPISODE FEATURES a ready reckoner of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s prolific temple destructions across India. Copious evidence for this is available directly from Aurangzeb’s Farmans (royal orders) and Akhbarat (news reports), William Crooke’s Handbooks, De Graaf’s chronicles, Charles Stewart’s accounts and Jadunath Sarkar’s five extraordinary volumes on Aurangzeb.

We give a list of more than thirty Hindu temples that Aurangzeb destroyed in a vast geography that includes Agra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Karnataka. That’s almost seventy percent of undivided India’s landmass.

Aurangzeb’s reign is undoubtedly the worst of bad news as far as the Hindu civilisational memory is concerned. In fact, the attitude towards Aurangzeb shown by some powerful sections of the contemporary Muslim community in India offers some of the most telling evidences for this fact. Some representatives of the Muslim clergy today, especially on TV debates, are quite candid in their assertion that the Gyanvapi “mosque” is a settled fact—i.e., Hindus have no claim over the original Kashi Visvavantha Temple.

THE LIST OF DESTROYED HINDU TEMPLES featured in this podcast is just the tip of the iceberg. The mere sight of a Hindu temple aroused extreme hatred within Aurangzeb.

But it was also a gift and an inspiration for posterity. Therefore it is unsurprising that that a whole gamut of future fanatics like Shah Waliullah, Syed Ahmed Khan, Allama Iqbal and Zia-ul-Haq… all of them regarded Aurangzeb as a role model and lamented the loss of his guidance for properly putting the infidel Hindus in their place. But in this historical backdrop, it is clear that the final chapter of this story of temple destructions has still not been written.

This podcast episode provides valuable lessons from this slice of Aurangzeb’s long and brutal career of persecuting Hindus. These are lessons that must not be forgotten.

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THIS EPISODE FEATURES AN IN-DEPTH analysis of the 2006 Hindi film, Rang De Basanti as a vehicle of Communist propaganda that has three primary purposes: pushing the age-old anti-India agenda, driving the anti-Hindu narrative and targeting the BJP.

The movie follows the familiar communist template of using art, literature, poetry, drama and cinema to propagandise communism among the Indian masses.

Rang de Basanti was a huge blockbuster when it was released and acquired a semi-cult status especially among the urban Indian youth. However, its commercial success was largely because it drew a historical parallel with five revolutionary Indian fighters: Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaquallah Khan, and Shivram Rajguru and juxtaposed them with five youths of contemporary India. This parallel was achieved by twisting the facts of history and presenting the historical revolutionaries as communist heroes, which they were not.

The distortion of history is done to push a specific narrative of equating the colonial British rule of India with a constitutionally elected government of independent India.

The propaganda in Rang de Basanti thus works at multiple levels all aimed at the same goal: of advocating a violent overthrow of the Indian government.

This podcast episode gives a broad historical background of the origins and methods of communist propaganda in India and provides specific points on how these methods are used in Rang De Basanti.

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IN 1917, A RADIO BROADCAST IN RUSSIA announced that the Tsarist regime had been overthrown and a new Soviet government had been established. This was the first ever victory of Karl Marx's political ideology, which had now acquired an entire state for itself: the largest country in the world.

Quite obviously, the event was enormously significant throughout the world and there was great excitement among Communists in non-communist countries.

One such country was England’s most prized colony, India.

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This podcast episode traces the nearly century-long history of Communism in India from its founding days up to the present time.

Founded in 1920 in Tashkent by M.N. Roy, the Communist Party of India (CPI) has had a chequered legacy in India. Unarguably its influence, impact and consequences for the country have largely been destructive. This destruction has passed through several key stages but it has undeniably been a force of darkness and violence.

Overall, Communism in India has calculatedly destroyed many important facets of the ancient Hindu spiritual culture and civilisation. Communist forces in India continue to work for the physical break-up of the Indian state by collaborating with the declared enemies of India.

Communism has also been mainly responsible for why India was considered a third world country for more than six decades after it attained independence from the British.

Although Communists exist in India as a political force only nominally in the present time, they have managed to infiltrate their ideology by masking it it clever verbiage and have succeeded in a nationwide capture of government and other public institutions.

This podcast episode is one of its kind offering a capsule history of a century of Communism in India which covers all the major stages in its history.

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IN THIS EYE-OPENING CONVERSATION, scholar, columnist, author and an authority on Communism and Marxism, Dr. Shankar Saran takes us on a superb guided tour of the motivations, methods, and impact that Communists have had in India for nearly a century.

Dr. Saran speaks about his own journey as a card-carrying Communist initially, and narrates his experiences of being a Marxist ideologue and teacher. He exposes their hypocrisy, their toxic belief system, and the duplicitous role they have played in Indian politics and the public discourse.

Dr. Shankar Saran also provides substantial details on how the Communists infiltrated almost all democratic institutions, and the tactics they employed in this ideological takeover. He shares valuable insights into what they label as research and how it has played out in real life.

Of great interest is the manner in which the Communists founded the notorious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which has a long history of national subversion using the resources of the Indian state. In particular, Dr. Saran provides shocking details of the JNU’s visceral hatred for Hindu traditions, knowledge systems and institutions. Equally, Dr. Saran reveals the methods of appointments to influential academic positions almost all of which are controlled by the Communists.

THIS PODCAST IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for all thinking Indians who will be shocked and appalled at this national travesty called JNU which has continued for about 70 years. It is also an eye-opener and clarifies many issues and questions that people may have about the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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