In this extract from ‘Rebels with a cause: Famous dissenters and why they are not being heard,’ TT Ram Mohan explores anti-caste activist Kancha Ilaiah’s formative years. KANCHA ILAIAH/ FACEBOOKNEWS BOOK EXCERPT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 – 10:52TT Ram Mohan Ilaiah is…
A Black Sister Came, Saw the Older House and Told Us to Pull it Down
An earth shaking book When I was reading Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, even before completing the book I realised that a Black sister had come to our older house of 3,500 years from an old house of…
‘Mirror image’ textbooks in Andhra will make students realise English is easier than Telugu
Till the end of the 14th century, English was primarily a farmer’s language in England, unlike Telugu, which evolved in the opposite direction. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD31 August, 2020 9:36 am ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/mirror-image-textbooks-in-andhra-will-make-students-realise-english-is-easier-than-telugu/491729/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 The Andhra Pradesh government has come out with a…
Can Brahmins Bring Revolution: An Assessment Through The Prism Of Tarimela Nagi Reddy | Countercurrents
in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Share: WhatsAppFacebookTwitterTelegramRedditEmail What is known as Devulapally Venkateswar Rao (DVR) defenders team, attacked my recent article on Usaa Barber. One of their objects was to assert that DVR, a vegetarian conservative Brahmin, who pretended to be a revolutionary…
When The PM’s Rama Is Different From That Of RSS/BJP | Countercurrents
in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not just in his personal capacity, but in his capacity as the Prime Minister of 130 crore Indians quite unexpectedly re-defined Rama totally in a different way than how the RSS/BJP have shown…
What about Dalit priest at Ayodhya Ram Mandir? Even Communist intellectuals won’t demand it
It is being said that the Ram Mandir will be more significant than the Vatican of Rome and the Mecca of Saudi Arabia. But will it change the status of Dalits and Shudras? KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD7 August, 2020 8:35 am…