Ishwar Sharan's Blog, page 24

Liberal Western media, illiberal global agenda – Utpal Kumar

American media, think tanks and universities are dictated by Qatari-Saudi-Chinese money. The result has been the creation of a class of Americans who are today the biggest threat to the idea of America, as one can see in the ongoing protests on US campuses where students, under the dark spell of Leftist-Islamist wokeism, are sleepwalking […]

The essay the NYT asked for, then refused to publish – Swapan Dasgupta

Author and columnist Swapan Dasgupta has revealed that The New York Times approached him in March this year for a “thought-provoking essay on the appeal of the PM’s BJP movement”. Dasgupta sent his 1,500-word essay to the NYT and was first asked to incorporate “some of the criticisms of Modi”, which he was fine with. […]

The rise of young Bharatiya thinkers – Ratan Sharda

We saw some of the most brilliant minds coming out openly in support of a national narrative of Bharat. Girilal Jain, Arun Shourie, Meenakshi Jain, Koenraad Elst, Swapan Dasgupta, et al created a new kind of intellectual capital in the times when it was a crime to identify oneself with Hindutva and Bharatiya culture. – […]

The Indian heritage of democracy – Nanditha Krishna

India is a successful working democracy because the Indian people, since Vedic times, participated in governance—from the village to the state. … It is election season and a time to remember our democratic past. – Dr. Nanditha Krishna If modern India has been a successful democracy, it is because there is an ancient tradition of […]

The ban on ‘The Satanic Verses’ should be lifted now – Reshmi Dasgupta

India should lift that proscription on The Satanic Verses now. In fact, India should have done so in the same month Rushdie was attacked. It would have been—rightly—seen as a definitive turning away from yet another egregious, and as-yet-unrescinded Congress-era appeasement move. – Reshmi Dasgupta Sir Salman Rushdie—now, presumably, plain Citizen Rushdie of the US […]

Foreign-funded NGOs and the nexus of anti-Modi forces – Sudesh Verma

More than 20,000 NGOs have been deregistered, including Amnesty and Greenpeace, for refusing to meet FCRA compliance as per the law of the land. – Sudesh Verma We have seen how the Congress and the Left have been manipulating the system for their own aspiration—one to facilitate corruption and the other to establish ideological hegemony. […]

Historic legal battle unfolds over Gyanvapi Mosque – Prafull Goradia

The fervent followers of Emperor Aurangzeb are not embarrassed that for over three centuries an illegitimate mosque structure stands over a desecrated temple, welcoming the adherents of Aurangzeb’s bigoted ideology. The judges in this case should soon begin trials. It should be declared that this is a trial over a place of worship that was […]

What’s ailing the foreign media in India? – K.A. Badarinath

Beginning with the BBC tax surveys, foreign journalists’ exit India making charges about press freedom. Has something seriously gone wrong with the international media? Have they lost it all together? Or is it the colonial mindset that drives a few foreign journalists to cheap theatrics? – Prof. K.A. Badarinath Why is it that global media […]

America must stop running with the pro-India hare and hunting with the anti-India hounds – Utpal Kumar

Western prejudice is deeply entrenched against India and its rising global influence. This explains why the West has very rarely celebrated India’s dance with democracy in the past seven decades. This despite the fact that India since Independence has been a democratic miracle—the only genuine democracy in the region between Israel and South Korea. – […]

Kerala Churches not with BJP – Kumar Chellappan

The Latin Catholic Church, a dominant Christian community along coastal Kerala, declared that it would never support the BJP as the Central Government has subverted its missionary work. – Kumar Chellappan With hardly four days to go for the Lok Sabha election in Kerala, two prominent Christian sects have come out against the BJP-led NDA […]