Historian EXPOSES Colonialism, Gandhi, And Delhi Snobs | Dostcast w/ Hindol Sengupta

Hindol Sengupta is an Indian historian, journalist, and author born in 1979 in Jamshedpur. He currently resides in Delhi, where he serves as Editor-at-Large at Fortune India, contributing a weekly column. Beyond his journalism career, he has made significant contributions as an author, with his works being highly regarded in the literary world.
In this episode, Vinamre and Hindol Sengupta talk about:
- The fascinating idea of what happens when intellect meets faith
- How Sardar Patel’s decision as a leader could have solved Kashmir issue once and for all
- Did ‘Vande Mataram’ led to the partition of India and Pakistan
If you hear the word Hindutva a lot, and you are curious about what does Political Hinduism means, this episode is for you, tune in.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
03:56 - Being Hindu almost didn’t get published
05:52 - Why are people suddenly interested in identifying aggressively with being a Hindu
07:52 - The Japanese adaptation of Ramayana
08:15 - The story of Pico Iyer
10:51 - The Golden Arches Theory is complete bullshit
14:02 - We are seeking validation everywhere and all the times
16:00 - This traveler finds the ultimate answers after coming to India
20:52 - The real way to detox your minds
23:36 - The biggest challenge Hindol faced while writing Being Hindu
24:40 - What does it feels to surrender to the divine
26:00 - The illusion of control we all fail to notice
27:00 - The inevitable transformation
29:00 - The mixing of faith with intellect
31:23 - What is Soul & Sword is supposed to explain
33:39 - America at it’s core is a Christian country which allows all faiths
35:17 - This is what Savarkar talks about Hinduism
37:15 - The inevitable things to happen in Kaliyuga
37:57 - Controversy around Vande Mataram
40:00 - West Bengal was one of the most fertile land
44:50 - The horrible statement by Mahatma Gandhi
47:17 - Sardar Patel’s decision could have solved the Kashmir problem
49:53 - Did Gandhi & Nehru only make mistakes?
51:30 - Gandhi represents an ideal to the world
55:55 - How do you get a Bharat Ratna award
58:00 - Is the history getting rewritten in these times?
01:00:33 - Contributions of Sardar Patel
01:03:05 - The pragmatists of India
01:05:06 - Why we didn’t abandon entrepreneurs of India after independence
01:07:00 - Publishers refused to to publish the book named Being Hindu
01:11:11 - You can’t quite the critics
01:14:40 - The story of Vajpayee ji and Advani Ji
01:16:16 - How BJP came into being
01:18:20 - Why Advani ji got arrested by Lalu Yadav
01:20:20 - The first time Ramayana & Mahabharat broadcasted
01:25:24 - Was there an ecosystem that inspired Hindol to write Being Hindu?
01:32:00 - What is changing about luxury in India
01:34:35 - How is Balaposh made in West Bengal
01:35:53 - How do you develop elegant taste and become cultured
01:38:00 - Taste is a byproduct of aesthetic
01:39:00 - How LV standouts from other brands
01:41:58 - Why younger people prefer reading more self-help books
01:44:00 - Why do you lack the anchor of your life
01:46:17 - There’s a mass identity crisis in the world
01:38:50 - How selfishness is ruining the meaning of life
01:50:58 - We are becoming a society of likes driven society
01:53:08 - The India story & Hinduism
01:55:21 - Narendra Modi is building a great narrative of India
02:00:00 - India had a history of philosophers kings
02:02:55 - Who was Macaulay & how he ruined Indian culture
02:06:30 - We’d take every white person’s opinion about India as the truth
02:10:47 - Taking pride in our culture
02:12:10 - We are net providers of helping aid
02:16:00 - Indo-futurism and its ideas
02:17:20 - The origin of Damascus steel is India
01:18:41 - Ujjain was the central meridian of time
02:23:17 - Ending notes
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[@dostcast]

If you enjoyed this episode, could you please hit the like button 👍 it helps us massively. Appreciate you all! 🙏

[@sanatmohanta7243]

I think you have started to cut your guests mid sentence before letting them finish, like ranveer does....I like to watch your content because you generally listen to them first, also because you mostly reasearch or read their works, hence you have better questions for them. It's been two episodes with kushal & definitely from that I got directed towards hindol's, am noticing you interrupting. Just a positive criticism, nothing against you brother.

[@sanatmohanta7243]

Also because you used to try to understand your guests' perspective rather than pushing your beliefs. The podcaster/interviewer is just a medium, people are there for the guests. Nobody likes snobby journalists.

[@rsn180690]

What a pleasant surprise to see Hindol Sengupta on a podcast! Don’t think he does many.

[@dharmikpatel2894]

P😊p

[@mosesl.nonglait545]

I couldn't find any better words to praise this conversation, thankyou very very much sadar pranam shrimant dhanyawad Bharat ki jai ho.

[@zaara33]

What a brilliant podcast! Read Soul and swords and it was a revelation, a mix of anger and sadness and finally pride for our country to owning the bharatiya narrative. And this is a podcast for EVERYONE and I mean every Bharatiya young and old. Thank you Vinamre and Hindol for such a fantastic session 🙏🏾

[@rosewater6778]

Vinamre you have an incredible penchant for fishing out hidden gems. I've read books written by Hindol Sengupta and watched that odd KZbin short that I loved. But I've always wondered why he's not interviewed more often. Thrilled to watch this. He's a dark horse and among those whose ideas will shape that new India we're hoping to see. Thanks for having him on Dostcast 😊

[@Valkyier911]

Hindol sounds like a calmer more civilised AIM

[@Arjun499__]

OMG yes 😂😂😂 I'm dying laughing now 😂🤣

[@AA13494]

i disagree. AIM hates gandhi and his ideology while hindol still believes india needs gandhi. i believe india dsnt need any of its freedom leaders now. they all were equally confused and egoistic.

[@AA13494]

but Aim dislikes gandhi and his ideology, while hindol belives we need gandhi. I believe we dnt need any of those freedom leaders. they all were equally confused.

[@Arjun499__]

@@AA13494 he said he sounds like AIM doesn't mean he shares the same values, how AIM speaks is what's same with hindol

[@Arjun499__]

@@AA13494 and I strongly disagree with you on India not needing it's freedom fighters only Gandhi parivaar was eager for political power made us believe that they did all of it, if you read biographies of other people you will understand how INC wasn't even made by an Indian, it was made by an English men after the revolt of 1857 to make Indians feel that they are being represented but on the main stage britishers didn't care of INC, it was just a boundary for Indians to keep them at bay Then comes subhas Chandra Bose Saab, bhagat Singh Saab, Veer Savarkar Saab, chandrashekhar azad Saab and many more who really wanted to unite people and push the Britishers out NOTHING CAN BE GAINED WITH NON VIOLENCE IN A COLONIAL ERA, MAHATMA GANDHI WAS A BIG SCAM FOR INDIANS, AND SO IS THE CONGRESS PARTY NOWADAYS

[@06musicfan]

I really enjoyed this podcast, thankyou so much!

[@chaitanyadubey2914]

This was a great podcast thoroughly enjoyed it from the beginning to the end

[@shrutimishra252]

Great podcast! Could you kindly invite Mr. Rajiv Malhotra on this podcast? He is a highly intellectual man and has contributed more than 30 years in dismantling Western and liberal propanganda abroad against India . He has made significant contributions in this field and has also published many critically accalimed books.He is probably coming to India around mid-March

[@NikhilKumar-lp9bn]

Thanks for the effort...both of u.

[@riya_beautifulchaos]

Wow! Amazing conversation and exciting topics! All topics picked up are really good! Thanks Vinamre for introducing us to new people and enlightened personalities by way of your podcast. The fact that you read the books beforehand, makes you an informed person who is asking all the right questions. Thank you! ❤

[@KumarSanket11]

Single most wholesome podcast episode ever! Thanks for this one mate, it is indeed entirely down to how you opened up so many themes

[@subhashishdutta]

What a podcast. This is among one of my best listens. The Ujjain Mahakal mandir and Rhinoplasty examples were mind blowing. As Hindol says, "cultural confidence doesn't come from thin air, it comes from understanding your culture". We are at a hugely exciting time in our nation's journey where more and more people are engaging and trying to understand our culture.

[@aradhanasingh3441]

extremely pleasing for my dose of history and political awareness. scintillating podcast ❤

[@adityatiwari1022]

Kushal Bhai ki recommendation pe le aaye. Nice. Dekhta hoon pura ab

[@ridhiagarwal8524]

Yeee after kushals podcast i read swords and souls and i m glad u invited hindol sengupta

[@anonymous-yf6ur]

Really enjoyed this podcast!

[@diptibistaswal4604]

What an amazing podcast!!....brilliant conversation.

[@logicalthinker48]

Book recommendation: India A Wounded Civilization by VS Naipaul🥰🥰

[@suen3634]

Really enjoying this discussion. Hindol Sengupta’s views on a number of issues like Bhakti, spirituality, rewriting of history all resonates deeply. Look forward to more books from him.

[@Sasha_Lara]

Thank you for this masterpiece!!

[@saishirdi2014]

Thanks Hindol 👍

[@Karshneya]

A really informative and intelligent conversation. Thank you.

[@lakshmipathirao8371]

Truly fascinating..

[@sauravroychow]

Superb talk. These are the intellectual discussions that are required that have different perspectives, more holistic and not one-sided agenda.

[@rajwardhanghorpade8898]

Best articulated podcast ❤

[@AnjuSingh-ov2qr]

Please make a video on the book the beautiful tree by historian Dharampal ji it's about indigenous Indian education system and dalit and women education system and because of casteism people defame and leave Hinduism please sir 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@hyugakarn]

Wonderful conversation. I want to be Hindols Friend

[@ajaytomar111]

BESSSTTTTT ❤

[@jeetroychowdhury5490]

❤

[@venkateshchaubey1267]

Could you share a book recommendation after every episode or through a newsletter with the summary.

[@vickeykooper2674]

Hey dostcast, if possible please invite Acharya Prashant as well. He is ex IIT, IIM, cracked UPSC CSE exam,and then left these to become proponent of Vedanta philosophy!!

[@indirashetty5962]

Geart explanation.

[@rajendradangi2585]

When I was I college I came across a person saying Hinduism is not a religion and it angered me deeply and then the journey begin to know what so called Hinduism rather hinduismS is? Before that Hinduism to me was just pujas n festivals...

[@rosewater6778]

Ya it's one of those inane pieces of rhetoric the left has cursed us with.

[@KARAMMOJO]

Susrutha, the father of Surgery in ancient India who was from Varanasi started Rhinoplasty (the predecessor to today's Plastic Surgery); hence we can rightfully say that he was the father of Plastic Surgery and he was not from Tamil Nadu.

[@shreyamukherjee9792]

3 hrs of absolute pleasure

[@dvikauglaumishrauca]

9:30 I liked how Vinamra started the podcast😅। Nice one

[@arpan9937]

A real bengali scholar.

[@htnaku4947]

Gandhi was Father of Anti-Hindu and Muslim Appeasement Politics in India.

[@Lulluputtu]

Thanks to Bengalis like Hindol Sengupta, still we north indians respect bengalis. Otherwise everyone would think that bengal only means communism.

[@ronojoybasu9126]

There's no need to specify 'Bengali' scholar, anybody reading his name will know where he is from..

[@prathammittal1786]

bro what happened to pro podcaster course

[@SDFNI3894YR]

Eye opening

[@saradaramsatyavada4943]

Telugu people are from Andhra and Telangana not Tamil Nadu please ! I don’t know he mentioned just like that of these three states when he was talking about Damascus sword !

[@sonofanun2634]

The opening question should have been about Yeti and onanism ... Totally disappointed 😢😢😢. On my way to down a pint of beer and hit the gym to work on my biceps

[@sharmilakalain7549]

Very interesting conversation. Regd Gandhi,apart from his abominable tactics in India, he was also a rascist in South Africa. Regd dress aesthetics, I recently visited India and was utterly disgusted at the women's dressing. Looked like they walked out of the Victorian Era with all the frills and grotesque prints. Seriously ugly. Regd books, being avid readers we looked for book stores as we toured and they were very hard to come by. And no stores selling Bhagavad Gita in Dwaraka!!! Nonetheless will try and get a copy of this book. I love India and I love Sanatana Dharma.

[@Rahulkumar-tk5vv]

You should call prakhar shrivastav or Dr. Shankar saran if you want to talk about Gandhi. They were like encyclopaedia on Gandhi. And also one suggestion when we are talking about such topics, ask them to tell references or book names etc.

[@premdaheriya8455]

😂😂😂😂 प्रखर श्रीवास्तव जिसको गांधी के बारे में कुछ नही पता जिसने उसका हिन्द स्वराज तक नहीं पड़ा वो क्या जानता है गांधी के बारे में सिर्फ बकवास करने के शिवाय

[@neueman]

It's Gandhi's professed ideals which are even more problematic and deeply troubling. It's in exposing the fallacy of these ideals that we begin to uncover the reasons behind them, which, in my assessment were far more sinister than is supposed.

[@TapasMukherjee-xl7iu]

Sorry, I can't agree on his interpretation of gandhi nehru

[@rka-truthalwayswins5127]

WHY

[@Bhavik630]

If we have the best of living conditions that human race has ever witnessed thanks to medical science and technology, how can we justify that we are living in Kalyug?

[@prajwaldapke6557]

He is wise...

[@ankitchellani]

Nache nagin gali gali 1:24:12

[@tusharsharma__]

11:00💀

[@saishirdi2014]

Sardar Patel 🎉❤❤🎉🇮🇳

[@himanshugoel653]

Bro anuj dhar ka sath bhi podcast karo

[@AnjuSingh-ov2qr]

Please bring j Sai Deepak please 😢😢

[@mohans1832]

Shani's vahana is crow (Kavva) Garuda is Vishnu's

[@SlaHu.]

I respect Macaulay , atleast he was a clear enemy and he said it openly. I would argue , Indian Culture is ruined more by Indians themselves. G & N & gangs included.

[@keshavsharmasmpr]

You guys are brainwashed

[@harshwaichal7533]

Please bring Prshant Kishore on your podcast

[@rka-truthalwayswins5127]

He is a Anti Hindu & anti Bhartiye crook & should be shamed; NOT accliamed in society!!

[@SanataniJoe]

If you don’t experience it, it is all mental gymnastics. And you experience it once you can’t talk about it

[@varunkhugshal9049]

So it should not be talked about?

[@system7962]

​@@varunkhugshal9049no, not by this clearly biased guy

[@varunkhugshal9049]

@@system7962 so you'll decide who should talk about what?

[@system7962]

@@varunkhugshal9049 so is this a fu*kin interview??

[@varunkhugshal9049]

@@system7962 very enlightening answer

[@livevidyarthi567]

Ye Podcast bhi thik hai par please next podcast with DIPANSHU GIRI SIR if possible 🫡😀🥲🥲🥲

[@devanshu6335]

If something good happens it is because of patel and something bad then nehru or gandhi...got it👍

[@aayushhh95]

Read books to know about Nehru's debacles and how Patel was almost always right in his arguments. Read Tripurdaman Singh's books

[@niranjanpattanaik7471]

The sarcasm is on you.

[@devanshu6335]

@@aayushhh95 I can't prove someone wrong who while reading a books thinks whatever he is reading to doesn't have ideology and from next time read diverse ideology if you are reading vikram sampath then read Ramchandra Guha too and if not then you will just become just another puppet of an ideology.

[@devanshu6335]

@@niranjanpattanaik7471 it wasn't sarcasm i believe whatever i said👍

[@tejasamrutkar2544]

​​@@aayushhh95 Do I really think if u read someone's book who has already an agenda/ narrative before writing book would come to any other conclusion rather than his narrative. We should read both types of books ,one which was written by right Wing historian and left wing too without ignoring anything them I'm sure u will come to right conclusion. Just reading what suits u makes u bhakt of someone be it right or left. These people nowadays discrediting gandhi and nehru have their fixed right wing biased so of course they won't tell u good sides and reason behind the things they did. Hope u get it.

[@Vyomesh4676]

Gandhi as an ideal and then the juatification sayingbfollow the words and not actions ia completely bullshit,given the guy was a politician results alone matter not talks,because it is easy to say anything but not the same withh actions,those who say something and do something else that is a classic case of"muh me raam baagal me churi" or better example kalnemi.

[@aayushmansharrma7632]

Great podcast but everytime he said so on and so forth I wanted to do something bad lol jk

[@pinakpanibhattacharjee87]

Hindolda should also hv said what Bose(then a hardcore gandhi follower) had said after mooplah massacre? 😂😂😂 this would hv made everything ultaaa pultaa 😂😂😂.

[@divyanshsh]

Ramana 🙏🏼 maharishi

[@ridhiagarwal8524]

I m disliking foe the title...stop using these clickbaits 😊

[@mayanarayan854]

What about how Nehru treated Netaji?

[@brightpigments6749]

Bro is still speaking in English

[@rutvikrs]

So?

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Abey kitne indians ko hindi ya bengali aati hai? Ofc he's speaking in english to reach more indians.

[@rawadosa90210]

You're still writing in English 😢

[@shivangjoshi104]

Bhai hickey chupa raha hai

[@rajivhumain]

I remember this guy He was bashed and destroyed by MR. Purshottam Aggarwal on tv 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pmishra786]

Bhai ye Bangaali kitna bolte h yaar 😂😂

[@shivaditya_myway]

Bhai bolne ke liye hi toh aya hai vo

[@amrisha12]

Arre ye Banda full obsessed with Gandhi and Lehru

[@jinmuwon1108]

Lalu yadav k bare me aapko ghanta nhi pata hai,

[@pinakibhattacharya3966]

ghoti

[@sushmitajha2624]

I just wasted 30 mins of my time. It still feels one sided. Why don't you call Devadutt Patnayak for knowledge on Hinduism.

[@rutvikrs]

Devdutt Pattnaik. 😂 Sushmita, it would have been forgivable if we lived in 2008-11. His refusal to debate Nityananda Mishra on lexicological misinterpretations was shameful. He still blocks you on any platform if you utter Mishra's name. As a liberal, non religious and modernist, I was in support of Pattnaik but the whole fiasco showed he is a Donigerian mistake we have all moved past.

[@sushmitajha2624]

@@rutvikrs I don't follow him to comment on this. I used to watch a show on Epic channel(which I don't exist or not). But for now I really fail to understand this podcast and this person's timeline is not timelining. I vaguely understand his interpretations even though I know some facts but it seems he is presenting it all in a twisted form. Again even in my History classes I was bad with dates. I surely can be ignorant.As for religion, I am religious enough but not knowledgeable enough. I believe in Karma though.

[@djsngolossy6237]

He already has brought devdutt patnaik​@@sushmitajha2624

[@TheBakuganmaster99]

Lol. Liberandus like you will never change. 😂😂

[@theniravpanchal]

Devdutt patnaik is a Anti-Hindu Bigot. He has shown his real face through Vulgar Comments on Hindu deities.

[@rahulmodi8706]

Gandhi ideal is great if he was a leader from another country say Brazil, Mongolia or Morocco But you’d hate to have him as a father or leader

[@INSTAFLIXMEDIA]

Interestingly, it's 4:57 am now and I am lying down with my balaposh 😝😝😝