Till the end of the 14th century, English was primarily a farmer’s language in England, unlike Telugu, which evolved in the opposite direction. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD31 August, 2020 9:36 am ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/mirror-image-textbooks-in-andhra-will-make-students-realise-english-is-easier-than-telugu/491729/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 The Andhra Pradesh government has come out with a…
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Can Brahmins Bring Revolution: An Assessment Through The Prism Of Tarimela Nagi Reddy | Countercurrents
in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Share: WhatsAppFacebookTwitterTelegramRedditEmail What is known as Devulapally Venkateswar Rao (DVR) defenders team, attacked my recent article on Usaa Barber. One of their objects was to assert that DVR, a vegetarian conservative Brahmin, who pretended to be a revolutionary…
When The PM’s Rama Is Different From That Of RSS/BJP | Countercurrents
in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not just in his personal capacity, but in his capacity as the Prime Minister of 130 crore Indians quite unexpectedly re-defined Rama totally in a different way than how the RSS/BJP have shown…
What about Dalit priest at Ayodhya Ram Mandir? Even Communist intellectuals won’t demand it
It is being said that the Ram Mandir will be more significant than the Vatican of Rome and the Mecca of Saudi Arabia. But will it change the status of Dalits and Shudras? KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD7 August, 2020 8:35 am…
Usaa, The Greatest Revolutionary Barber After Upali, Died of COVID-19
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Usaa Barber (Uppumavuluri Sambashivarao) (1951-2020)- a well-known social reformer, anti-caste ideologue and anti-brahminism fighter succumbed to COVID-19 on 25th July 2020. He died because of the Indian medical system that could not reach to a stage where…
Macaulay Is Very Relevant Today and Helps Dalits, OBCs Join the Global Economy
The new education policy’s proposal to reduce the importance of English in schools will hinder progress. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) lived in India just for four years, from 1834 to 1838. Yet he left unerasable footprints on…
How anti-caste activist Usaa left strong footprints on the soil of Telugu states
U Sambasiva Rao’s legacy as a revolutionary, a human rights defender, and an anti-caste ideologue will live on, Kancha Ilaiah writes. NEWS OBITUARY SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020 – 13:46Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd U Sambasiva Rao (1950-2020) — popularly known as Usaa, passed away…
Agriculturalism And Hindutva
in Life/Philosophy — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — July 24, 2020FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailShare0 In China there was a philosophical school called Agriculturism between 770 BCE and 221 BCE. The main philosopher, who represented this school with a sophisticated exposition of that philosophy, was Xu Xing (372-289 BCE). His…
Only if they Learn English can OBCs Take Advantage of Reservation | NewsClick
Only if they Learn English can OBCs Take Advantage of ReservationReservation is a crutch but English-medium education could have been their leg.Pragya Singh15 Jul 2020 On the 30th anniversary of reservations for backward classes, the well-known social scientist, writer and…
India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd – India News , Firstpost
India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Our political life, lived around only village panchayats before 1950, is now connected to a larger constitutional democracy. In the future, this nationalist view will…