Ishwar Sharan's Blog, page 31

Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation: A matter of faith, not a political act – Chandan Kumar

The world rightly condemns China for eradicating Uyghur culture. Now the state has turned towards controlling the soul of Tibetan identity—religion incarnate in its leaders. Should the party judge the merits of a faith, which Beijing tried to decimate, by destroying Buddhist monasteries and persecuting monks over decades? – Dr. Chandan Kumar An article published […]

What’s in store for Hamas and its leaders? – Neville Teller

There is no question of offering the Hamas leadership the chance to escape with their thousands of followers to some country prepared to accept them. … Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar said those leaders of the Hamas organization responsible for planning, organizing, and perpetrating the invasion and pogrom of October 7, would be hunted down […]

Tracing the roots of hostility among Jews, Christians and Muslims – Arvind Sharma

The Arabs trace their origin to Ishmael, and the Jews trace their origin to Isaac. The struggle between them, therefore, dates back to the question: Who was the rightful heir to Abraham? – Prof. Arvind Sharma The current tensions in the Middle East compel one to probe the roots of the hostility of the Christians […]

Global feminism is being appropriated by violent men – Ravi Shankar

A crisis of contradiction has risen between the liberating ideals of women power and support for violent Islamist nationalism, which has selectively paralysed the soapbox liberals on the Palestine cause celebre. It is time to redefine feminism to save its true purpose: recognising equality of female trauma. – Ravi Shankar A wave of blind partisanship […]

Mathura Masjid Survey: Proof of temple desecration is hiding in plain sight – Rahul Shivshankar

Hindus, even in the land of their birth, are subjected to inquisitions from within and without. In the present times, these inquests have become formalised hearings. Now, courts sit in judgement of Hindu customs and religious beliefs in the name of progressivism. … Judgement after judgement has codified Hindu personal laws and customs while exempting […]

Time to end reservations – Tavleen Singh

As a tool for bringing social equality for scheduled castes and tribes, reservations have failed. … One section of Indians who has benefited from reservations, it is our politicians. They have perfected the art of creating vote banks based on caste, creed and tribe, and perfected the art of promising them the moon when elections […]

Let’s honour the India that is Bharat and the Hinduism that is Sanatana Dharma – David Frawley

India that is Bharat, which occurs in the beginning of India’s Constitution, highlights the need for a civilisational revival that was an integral part of India’s independence movement, not just creating another modern nation-state. – Dr. David Frawley India cannot be understood without an equation with its traditional name of Bharat. India is a much […]

An Indian solution to the Israel-Palestine imbroglio – Ibn Khaldun Bharati

The Indian model in which people of different religions, sometimes with difficult pasts, live together with equal rights in a single polity is the only solution towards which Jews and Muslims are bound to move. One could only wish that they did it before inviting more miseries upon themselves from each other’s hands. – Ibn […]

Looking after street dogs – Hiranmay Karlekar

Love for animals is an integral part of the wider proneness to love which is central to the emotional content of the human psyche. – Hiranmay Karlekar It is amazing how the number of people caring for street dogs in India has increased dramatically during the last couple of decades or so. Twenty years ago, […]

Hinduism’s Himalayan Dilemma – Ravi Shankar

“Yasyeme himavanto mahitvā yasya samudram rasayā sahāhuh.” His, through His might, are these snow-covered mountains, and men call sea and rasā His possession: His arms are these, His are these heavenly regions. What God shall we adore with our oblation? – Rig Veda Ancient Hindus believed that the Himalayas were the abode of the Gods […]