Interview By Hafeesha TB Social scientist Kancha Ilaiah talks of the row over his recent Telugu book ‘Saamajika Smugglerlu Kommatollu’ and other controversies he has faced. Writer and social scientist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has been at the heart of a…
The Government’s Elaborate Nationalist Charade
By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd | Published on: November 9, 2017 Dr. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, a political theorist and Dalit Rights activist has been in the eye of the storm ever since the Telugu translation of his book Post Hindu India…
A Critical Defence of Kancha Ilaiah’s Voice
Anand Teltumbde (tanandraj@gmail.com) is a writer and civil rights activist with the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai. Source In these achhe din when the Hindutva bullet trail has killed people with impunity for speaking what it does not…
Kancha Ilaiah: For lives lived in labour
Kalpana Kannabiran, The Hindu Childhood, marriage, markets, goddesses, worship, food, work — for Ilaiah, the lived village has always been the best textbook I call Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and we talk about meeting and having a leisurely chat about…
Vishal Mangalwadi’s Hindutva Agendra
Mr. Vishal Mandgalwadi A Muslim friend of mine, who seems to have written to you also told me about your facebook post. When I saw that I was shocked. I never knew that you are such a liar. When did…
Interview by Bar and Bench – “I will continue writing, nobody can stop me from doing that”, Prof. Kancha Ilaiah
By Varun Chirumamilla Professor Kancha Ilaiah has never been one to mince words. But when he termed Baniasas “social smugglers”, he started receiving death threats and abusive phone calls. His book Samajika Smugglurlu Komatolludrew flak from sections of society, leading to the…