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.…
Book Launch – From a Shepherd to an Intellectual
ILAIAH LIVED HIS PHILOSOPHY
REVIEW of “From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectuals–Mmy Memoirs by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Sage/Samya/Select. PP 360 by Aappu Back in the early 2000s when I was a university student in Delhi, Kancha Ilaiah was all the rage. His book,…
Why Narendra Modi kept Mohan Bhagwat in the dark over 10 per cent EWS reservation
Not only the RSS chief, but several Congress anti-reservationists too have been dealt a huge blow. Modi’s proposed quota could also change how we see caste itself. By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD The Constitution (124 Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to provide 10…