“Kerala’s silence on Love Jihad is costing lives: Sona Eldhose’s death demands accountability”, Swarajyamag, August 21, 2025:

“In the “secular state of Kerala”, a dark undercurrent is eating away at the state’s soul. It is not a crime of passion or an isolated heartbreak. It is a calculated pattern of systematic campaigns by radical Islamist elements to target Hindu and Christian women under the guise of love, only to entrap and convert them in the name of religion.

For years, this phenomenon, popularly called “love jihad” by the RSS and Christian organisations such as the CASA outfit in Kerala, was dismissed by both the LDF and UDF as a manufactured scare. But the facts are getting harder to ignore. Vulnerable young women are being groomed, isolated from their families, coerced into religious conversion, and sometimes drawn into networks with disturbing links to extremism.

Kerala, once celebrated as a beacon of religious harmony, is now paving the way to becoming a breeding ground for such grooming…….”

Read the full article at Swarajyamag.com