“The true founders of Indian democracy” FORUM Who are the True Founding Fathers and Mothers of Indian Democracy? India’s founding fathers and mothers contributed in multiple ways to the establishment of democracy in the country. Some of those mentioned by…
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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd And The Loneliness Of A Bahujan Academic
There are many moments in Ilaiah’s memoir, ‘From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual’, that speak to anyone looking to sustain a life of reading and writing. Vijeta Kumar Apr 19, 2019, 10:54 PM EDT A young Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd…
Why Amit Shah’s push for regional language-based higher education is a deceptive game
By asking the rural masses to educate their children in regional languages, Amit Shah wants to put them in their classic place of language disadvantage, writes Kancha Ilaiah. VOICES OPINION THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2022 – 10:54 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Until not so…
Anti-CAA to farmer protests—India’s productive masses are giving real meaning to Tiranga
Only a few other movements in the last 75 years of Independent India have held the national flag as dear as Dalits, Shudras, Adivasis did. It’s a new landmark. An elderly woman at a protest site with the Indian national…
A British Lesson in Tolerance for ‘Hindu’ India
A British Lesson in Tolerance for ‘Hindu’ India Rishi Sunak’s candidature for prime minister shows us how truly unenlightened the ‘world’s largest democracy’ is. Britain’s Rishi Sunak meets Tory members at Fontwell Park Racecourse as part of his campaign to…
From Draupadi Pandava to Droupadi Murmu | Forward Press
Without the Mandal struggle, the RSS-BJP, known as the Brahmin-Bania network, would not have chosen her as the presidential candidate. The Congress and the Left, frozen in Brahmanism as they are, have given the RSS-BJP a historical advantage, writes Kancha…
Human As Christian-2
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd How labour and God shaped the world As I went late to school in life, perhaps after eight years I was born, in mid 1960 (my school record birth day is 5 October, 1952), for quite some…
Is The Congress On Suicide Course?
The Congress Party’s ideological steps remind us of a famous saying of Lenin “ One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward’ not in a tactical sense of retreating and advancing with a progressive strategy in a given unfavourable political environment, but…
Human As Christian
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St. Devasahayam’s Caste, Crucifixion And His Resurrection As A Global Shudra Saint
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The canonization of the first ever layman of India, Devasahayam, or Lazarus (1712–1752) as saint, on the lines of Mother Theresa or on the lines of St.Peter, by the Vatican on 15 May, 2022 is historic in…