in COVID19 India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Ever Since the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine came to power in 2014 the deepest crisis it is facing is the Covid-19 dance of death. As of the end of April 2021 India has become the most Covid infected nation in the world and the … Continue reading The Hindutva Cow Urine Cultural Nationalism And The Corona Crisis

Caste and varna abolition is now in the hands of RSS/BJP, which claims to represent all Indian Hindus, not just Dwijas, the upper castes. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD8 May, 2021 12:44 pm ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/marathas-lack-the-power-of-written-word-supreme-court-cant-ignore-it-like-communists-did/654482/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint TeamText Size: A- A+ Marathas are a large agrarian Shudra community in Maharashtra, constituting nearly 30 per cent of the … Continue reading Supreme Court’s flawed verdict on Maratha quota shows why factoring caste history is crucial

What YS Sharmila's leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes In some respects, YS Sharmila’s upcoming political party is the first of its kind in south India. IMAGE: YS SHARMILA REDDY Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd In south India so far, a woman leader has not started a major party on her own and influenced the … Continue reading What YS Sharmila’s leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes | The News Minute

KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD A new way to fight Dwija hegemony  Rakesh Tikait holding The Shudras—Vision for a New Path book with his two hands at his heart shows a new shift in the Indian and more particularly in the North Indian agrarian caste sociopolitical consciousness.North Indian Shudras more particularly the Jats, Gujjars, Patels became the backbone of … Continue reading The Shudras at the Heart of Tikait