Chowkidars are those who protect the rich? Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Why the BJP campaign is on the mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls himself a chowkidar. What he has done is tell the nation and the world the truth. Chowkidars…
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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd on his new memoir, the importance of Dalits sharing their own stories, and ‘productive castes’
By Yogesh Maitreya, Mar 29, 2019 10:51:41 IST His autobiography, From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs, provides the reader with a blueprint of his arguments and how they came into being. ‘The autobiography of a person from…
2019 Lok Sabha Polls: Why Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi must promise English-medium school education in the Congress manifesto
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailyo.in/lite/voices/2019-general-elections-rahul-gandhi-priyanka-gandhi-congress-bjp-saffronisation-of-education-hindutva-educational-reforms-election-manifesto/story/1/29957.html 2019 Lok Sabha Polls: Why Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi must promise English-medium school education in the Congress manifesto By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Both the BJP and Congress differ very little on the kind of education they envision for India’s…
With global forces watching India-Pakistan ties, BJP-RSS can’t solve Kashmir problem unless they shed anti-Muslim image
By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd An oped published in The New York Times warned about possible nuclear war between India and Pakistan had a picture of India and Pakistan warheads clashing. The Indian bomb has a three-colour flag with an Ashok…
RSS’ vegetarian army, in times of conflict with Pakistan and China
Which army is currently protecting India’s borders — the vegetarian RSS army or the multi-cuisine, multicultural Indian army? And who can do a better job? KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD
First Dalit Collector Who Changed A Feudal District In The 1970s
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd— March 5, 2019 The young man standing in bush shirt Next to Hyderabad, Warangal is the second biggest city of the Telangana state. Most of the present Telangana state’s heritage symbols, Kakatiya Gate, and its tank…
Book extract: From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual
Kancha Ilaiah Sheperd’s memoirs is riveting and takes us into truly uncharted territories that has been traversed by the versatile scholar. The book is unputdownable Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Brahminic learning was practising letter and number writing, whereas our learning was…
Kancha Ilaiah wants schoolchildren to sing the song of equality
The scholar has penned a poem and has made an appeal to sing it as a prayer in schools By Basant Kumar Mohanty in New Delhi, The Telegraph Dalit-Bahujan scholar Kancha Ilaiah, author of Why I am not a Hindu,…
Hinduism denies spiritual rights to Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis
By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, FIRSTPOST Hinduism is being defined as a religion like Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Till the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Hindu Mahasabha came into being, it wasn’t seen as a religion like the other three.…