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…
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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…
JNU’s VC is Celebrating ‘Herstory’ With Men, a ‘Civilisation State’ With No Rights
If the OBCs, Dalits and Adivasis were to follow Santishree Dhuilipudi Pandit, they would have to give up the agenda of social justice and forget about the rights recognised in the constitution. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit. Photo: Facebook…
For long, Congress wavered on social justice. Now it’s waking up to BJP’s OBC politics
Many wanted Congress to focus on secularism, diversity and pluralism. But party has realised that the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasi aren’t interested in these abstract ideas. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/for-long-congress-wavered-on-social-justice-now-its-waking-up-to-bjps-obc-politics/960447/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi at the Nav Sankalp Chintan…
Public intellectuals must end their hypocrisy on English education for the masses
In a closed-door meeting with public intellectuals, Rahul Gandhi told me he’s not opposed to English medium education in government schools. But surprisingly, a Left intellectual disagreed. COURTESY: PTI. IMAGE FOR REPRESENTATION. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Public intellectuals play a very…
An Open Letter To Muslims And Christians Of India
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd As some of you are aware, I am a Shudra intellectual and activist, working and writing to change the unequal conditions of the Dalits, Adivasis and Shudras (including the Other Backward Classes) in the Indian Brahminic Hindutva rule.…