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…
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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,…
Opinion: Will Rahul Gandhi emerge a moral leader from Bharat Jodo Yatra to take on RSS?
The Congress needs a morally strong leader at the helm. Rahul Gandhi has shown that streak in thought and practice, but he has to internalise the moral base of that politics, writes Kancha Ilaiah. PTI NEWS POLITICS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 –…
It took Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit, an OBC woman scholar, to study caste of Hindu gods – Forward Press
When serious intellectuals emerge from the organic social base of the productive communities like Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis, their own caste location begins to determine their consciousness irrespective of whether they come from the Hindutva school or the Communist school,…
Indian English Day Celebration
English India In The Making
October 5th is International Teachers Day. It is also Indian English Day. English language education has a history of 205 years in India. Incidentally October 5th is also my 70th birthday. My thirty years campaign for English medium education for…