Ishwar Sharan's Blog, page 190
June 9, 2016
Temples, Elephants and Traditions – B. R. Haran
Many temple elephants like Maduravalli have died in Tamil Nadu and such deaths have become a regular phenomenon. Abirami of Thirukkadaiyur Temple, Vellaiyammal of Thanjavur Big Temple, Bhavani of Rameshwaram Temple, Kumaran of Thiruchendur Temple and Sulochana of Valasubramania Temple, Virudunagar have all died in the recent past. – B. R. Haran Two recent incidents […]
June 8, 2016
God as the original terrorist – Valerie Tarico
By one count, the Quran has only 532 cruel or violent passages, while the Bible has 1,321. Christians respond that the Bible is longer, so the cruel, violent passages make up a smaller percent of the whole. – Valerie Tarico Last fall, Dutch pranksters put a cover from a Quran over a Bible and then asked passersby to […]
June 7, 2016
Caste discrimination within the Indian Church – The Hindu
Though Dalits account for more than 50% of total population of Catholics, they have not been given any important posts in Church administration. – The Hindu Conversion from Hinduism to other religions, it is generally argued, is to escape the untouchability and caste-based discrimination inherent in Hinduism. Christianity, however, is not able to eradicate untouchability, […]
June 6, 2016
The Dalai Lama must return to Lhasa – M. D. Nalapat
As Official India notes, Tibet has indeed become a part of China, and it is fantasy to believe that this could be reversed by the activities of numerous groups working for a restoration of conditions in Tibet to what they were before the 1950s. – Prof M. D. Nalapat LHASA: The capital of the Tibetan Autonomous […]
June 5, 2016
Savarkar Jyoti illuminates tales of unsung revolutionary heroes – Anirban Ganguly
The dimension of revolution in our struggle for freedom is often neglected or ignored. Also ignored are those countless revolutionary nationalists, who in the prime of their youth, decided to undertake a life of struggle, of privation and of sacrifice in order to pursue their dream of seeing India free—a dream that was often laughed […]
June 4, 2016
US Elections: The revolt of the independent American voter – Gautam Pingle
The key to this US election is the 43% of US voters who are Registered Independents. This section, which constituted 14% of voters in 1952, has grown to 31% in 1988, 39% by mid-1994, declined till 2004 (32%) and from 2004 has risen steadily to 43%—currently outranking both Republican (26%) and Democrat (29%) voters. – […]
June 3, 2016
Modi Sarkar has done nothing to correct civilisational issues – Sankrant Sanu
As the government is heads-down on economics, it has taken the view that growth will solve all problems, including that of the conversion war. I believe this view is naïve, and not based on a comprehensive study of the issues and the resources deployed against small communities. … In most cases, it hasn’t even understood […]
June 2, 2016
Swamy on Rajan: More sound, less light – Punarvasu Parekh
Rajan cannot be accused of incompetence, carelessness or cussedness. While the credit for taming inflation must go to the crash in international commodity prices and global slowdown, Rajan has stabilized the rupee, made monetary policy transparent and predictable, took many initiatives in the financial sector and placed the system on a sound footing. His presence […]
June 1, 2016
Calling unacceptable what is unacceptable – Maria Wirth
If an individual demeans another individual because of his religion, he is booked under some laws. Yet until now, the far greater abuse of half of the world population by the doctrines of Christianity and Islam themselves has not been called out as unacceptable. Freedom of religion can never include the right to demean those […]
May 31, 2016
Siddiqullah Chowdhury: Mamata appoints a Jamiat-AIUDF man as education minister – Sandhya Jain
Given the gruesome murders of bloggers fighting Islamic fundamentalism in [Bangladesh], it is easy to predict a tumultuous time ahead for the people of West Bengal with Jamiat personnel in government. – Sandhya Jain West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has triggered deep unrest in large sections of the State with her decision to appoint […]
