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Ishwar Sharan

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in Canada

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History, Historical Fiction, Religion

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Ishwar Sharan is the pen name of Canadian author Swami Devananda Saraswati, a Smarta Dashanani sannyasi who took his Vedic initiation from a renowned mahamandaleswar at Prayag in 1977. His purvasrama family were middle class professionals and God-fearing Protestant Christians. He did not complete high school and is self-educated through reading books on all subjects, with a special interest in religion and history. He has travelled extensively in Canada, USA, Europe, North Africa, West Asia and India. His experiences during these wandering years include service in a communist kibbutz during the Six Day War in Israel and some months spent in retreat in a Franciscan hermitage near Assisi, Italy. En route to India by road in 1967, he visited t ...more

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Countering Western propaganda on human rights and democracy in India – Virendra Parekh

The debate on human rights has wrongly centred on the rights of the suspects, accused and culprits. India needs to restore balance by highlighting the right of the victims of crime and terrorist acts to retributive justice, innocent citizens’ right to deterrent state action and the security personnel’s right to respond to the challenge adequately. […]

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The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple

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