in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd —June 22, 2020FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailShare59 A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Domkhera village in Amroha district at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was shaking the whole world. He was…
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Black Lives Matter must fire up India’s anti-caste movement to fight its central villain
India is yet to see a movement against caste on the scale of Black Lives Matter, even though both racial and caste discrimination share the notion of inferior and superior. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD21 June, 2020 10:42 am ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/black-lives-matter-india-anti-caste-movement-fight-villain-manu/445727/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Members of…
The Old Deal: BJP’s Answer to COVID-19 Is More Privatisation
The irony is that at a time when globalisation is dying, the emphasis is not on statisation. The idea behind the stimulus package is to shore up the time-honoured parampara of varnadharma economy and also wealth distribution. Photo: Arun Geetha…
Post-Covid Privatisation Will Push Labour Into a Deathtrap
KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD | 27 MAY, 2020 Post-Covid Privatisation Will Push Labour Into a Deathtrap Craving for more money at the expense of dying labour Metaphorically the heart (hruday) represents human goodwill and helping nature toward the helpless and needy, whereas…
Why India Won’t Be Able to Compete With China in the Post-COVID-19 World
Why India Won’t Be Able to Compete With China in the Post-COVID-19 World The RSS/BJP ideologues must unlearn their ‘cultural nationalism’ and re-learn ‘productive nationalism’ with a massive focus on the dignity of labour. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd COVID-19 has created a…
Shall We Change The Status Of Safai Sainiks Now?
in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd— April 29, 2020 Corona attack on India seems to have suddenly changed our understanding of Safai karmacharis of India. They are now seen as desh bhakts even by those who never recognized their desh bhakti. When…
Making Money Out of Money: The World After Corona
KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD | 21 APRIL, 2020 Making Money Out of Money: The World After Corona Whatever it is, you are born from my stomach In the Telugu film ‘George Reddy’ the hero’s mother sings: Ninnaite Kanna nenuNeeratalu KanugonalenuYe theeram nee…
“State Is The March Of God On Earth”: Re-examining Hegel In Times Of Corona Crisis
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Famous German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel was the first philosopher who linked social science and natural science by applying the principle of Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis. He effectively separated State and Religion while allowing them to function in…
“State Is The March Of God On Earth”: Re-examining Hegel In Times Of Corona Crisis – Countercurrents
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BJP Is Pretending To Respect Ambedkar But Is Disrespectful Of His Idea Of India
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The year 2020 is proving to be a strange one for the whole world. The coronavirus born in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 had spread the whole world by mid-March. Many countries have imposed a…