By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd One who practices caste is a devilThat devil has to be driven out of IndiaIndia must be made a country of equality. The tiller must sow the letters of EnglishOur soil must become a global knowledge powerCaste…
ईडब्ल्यूएस आरक्षण : अदालतों में अनेकानेक आंबेडकर की दरकार – Forward Press
एक मत यह है कि संविधान में संशोधन कर उसमें जाति-आधारित भेदभाव से निपटने के लिए उपयुक्त प्रावधान जोड़े जाना इस दलदल से बाहर निकलने का एकमात्र तरीका है। लेकिन इसके लिए नागरिक समाज व विधिक और बौद्धिक क्षेत्रों में…
We need Ambedkars in court to take on EWS reservation – Forward Press
A strong view is that an amendment to the Constitution that incorporates a provision for addressing caste-based discrimination meaningfully is the way only out of this quagmire. For that, a strong movement both in civil society and in legal and…
‘Why I walked with Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodo Yatra’
With all his visibility, Rahul has to become a leader and visionary with a new moral grit to fight the RSS/BJP and revive the Congress. He cannot do that as PM candidate. I wanted to see whether a new Rahul…
Why Bharat Jodo Yatra should not be seen in terms of immediate votes
Congress, with a moral leader within, should work to undo the fear-generating atmosphere created in the recent past; after all, RSS-BJP remained outside power till the 1990s and spread their ideology before becoming all-powerful Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 6:30 AM, 6…
Why Shashi Tharoor is not fit to take over the reins of the Congress party
Tharoor comes from a Shudra (Nair) community but wrote his book ‘Why I am a Hindu’ as if he was a dissident within the Sangh Parivar Hinduism and not as a leader with his feet firmly planted in Congress history,…