Mr. Trent Franks, is the U.S. Representative for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, serving in Congress since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and brought issue of Freedom of Expression in India with reference to Professor Kancha Ilaiah’s…
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‘Maybe they wanted it to be a mob lynching’
Interview with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, writer and political observer. By KUNAL SHANKAR Frontline THE noted writer and political observer Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, who is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at…
Times’ Interview on Kancha’s Social Smuggler
Living under house arrest, I’m losing hope in democracy and free speech, says Kancha Ilaiah Amulya Gopalakrishnan | TNN Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Social scientist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has been facing heat from the arya vysyas, who have taken offence at his analysis…
Editorial Note – The Fear of Ideas
The fear of ideas Indian Express The long winter of intolerance shows no signs of thawing. The script remains the same: Offence, weaponised, is ranged against ideas and intellectuals. The latest to be threatened with death and violence is academic and…
Interview – If govt can’t protect (me), other intellectuals not safe in country: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Threatened over translated writings, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd discusses caste system and his work with Indian Express. Written by Amrita Dutta | New Delhi Indian Express Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has faced death threats, abuse and criticism from some members of the Arya Vysa community…
Why are we silent on the grave threat to Kancha Ilaiah?
Written by Vidya Bhushan Rawat The professor must be provided all the security that he needs and those threatening to kill him must be prosecuted. Professor Kancha Ilaiah While it is nobody’s suggestion that India was a tolerant land some three…
DEATH FATWA TO KILL KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD BY TDP MP T.G VENKATESH
T.G. Venaktesh, an extremist Arya Vysya leader held a press conference on 18/9/2017 in a luxury hotel in Hyderabad with an extremist, conspitorial Arya Vysya team and declared a Fatwa on me that he would kill or hang in the…
WHAT IS SOCIAL SMUGGLING?
By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The concept Social Smuggling I coined in my book Post-Hindu India (Sage 2009) has generated a law and order issue, created by the Arya Vysya organizations of the two Telugu States. The Vysya Associations have issued…
A Seminar on Indian English Day
A Seminar on Indian English DayThe ‘Indian English Day’ will be celebrated at the Arts College, Osmania University, on 5th October 2016, at 3.30 PM, in Seminar Hall, participate in a big way. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd I am An Unconquered Lam…
From Isaiah to Ilaiah What is Common between Israel and India
My personal name is Ilaiah and my family name is Kancha. My newly added name after the Brahmin organisations of two Telugu states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana threatened to attack me in the month of May 2016 is Shepherd. Thus,…