Ishwar Sharan's Blog, page 9

Pahalgam Massacre: UNSC’s cover-up for Lashkar-e-Taiba – Rahul Pawa

Until the UN Security Council finds the courage to speak the names of terrorists it has already recorded in its own ledgers, the world will continue to watch its marble halls and wonder whether the global watchdog has any bark left or only a convenient, selective silence – Rahul Pawa The smoke had hardly cleared […]

Global media whitewashed the Pahalgam Hindu massacre – Nabaarun Barooah

By evading the truth, Western media outlets deny Hindus the basic dignity that every other faith community is granted in moments of tragedy: the right to have their pain acknowledged and named. – Nabaarun Barooah On April 22, 2025, in the pristine hills of Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—once a symbol of the Valley’s blooming tourism […]

A short history of what really ails Kashmir – Rahul Shivshankar

What of the omnipotent NDA? When will it safeguard the lives of Hindus so they too can live, earn and travel without fear in their own land? How long will NDA risk the lives of Hindus to push its normalcy narrative in Jammu and Kashmir? … Why is Kashmir still the cradle of Islamist intolerance […]

India And Pakistan are not the same people – Reshmi Dasgupta

Four wars which it lost have not hammered home to Pakistan that India is more than its equal. Because India was magnanimous in victory, and Pakistan crafty in defeat. Because India’s political leadership of all hues remained bound by the Hindu view of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, making us regard even this implacable enemy as ‘family’ even […]

Pope Francis: A very mixed legacy – Aravindan Neelakandan

In his approach to India, Pope Francis, like his recent predecessors, appeared to view the nation as a frontier for Catholic expansion and conquest. … By promoting for sainthood a fabricated ‘martyr’ like Devasahayam Pillai, Pope Francis’s papacy perpetuated a narrative that undermines India’s pluralistic ethos, prioritising evangelisation over interfaith harmony and echoing the Church’s […]

Georgia first US state to introduce bill against Hinduphobia – FE Online

The bill builds upon momentum from April 2023, when Georgia passed a resolution condemning Hinduphobia and anti-Hindu bigotry. That resolution also formally recognized Hinduism as one of the world’s oldest religions, practiced by over 1.2 billion people across more than 100 countries. The bill aims to insert a new provision into the Georgia code that […]

Unity of Dharma and Conflict of Religions – Virendra Parekh

Hinduism is the last major natural religion standing against the onslaught of world-conquering Abrahamic faiths. Indigenous traditions in Asia, Africa and Latin America are bearing the brunt of their advances. An argument for Hinduism, therefore, is equally an argument for all ancient indigenous pacifist traditions across the continents. Hinduism can provide inspiration and guidance for […]

Why Buddhism faded in the land of its birth – Renuka Narayanan

Perhaps the most critical reason Buddhism disapeared from India was that although one could be a lay Buddhist, Buddhism also wanted to remove able-bodied men in their prime from society, to turn them into monks who lived on the dole. Who was supposed to do the work, then? Who was left to protect the family? […]

Magical Realism: How followers of Nithyananda tried to take over native lands in South America – Tiago Rogero

The fictional nation of United States of Kailasa was created by Nithyananda—a self-anointed “godman” and “supreme pontiff of Hinduism”—in 2019, after he fled India while facing charges of rape and abducting children for his ashram. – Tiago Rogero Followers of a fugitive Indian Hindu guru on a mission to establish his own state are popping […]

Catholic Church land ownership comes under RSS scanner – J.P. Yadav

“In 1965, the Indian government issued a circular stating that any land granted on lease by the British government would no longer be recognised as Church property. However, due to lax enforcement of this directive, the legitimacy of certain Church-owned lands remains unresolved,” – Sashank Kumar Dwivedi in Organiser The web portal of an RSS-linked […]