While it’s debatable who deserves India’s highest civilian award, what seems to be working in favour of P.V. Narasimha Rao and S.P. Balasubrahmanyam is their caste. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, was instituted to recognise contributions…
Why The Farmers Need English Education? Indian English Day Diary
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Every October 5 is being celebrated as Indian English day by several equal medium education lovers in India. This is 203rd year of the birth of English medium school education in India. The first English medium school…
The Caste Dimensions of Kangana Ranaut’s Onslaught on Bollywood
Kshatriyas, who never took to modernity, are now beginning to assert themselves politically and in the film industry. Sep 22, 2020 | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, Kangana Ranaut’s rebellion against the Shiva Sena government and also the so-called…
How anti-caste activist Kancha Ilaiah’s mother was an inspiration for his rebellion
In this extract from ‘Rebels with a cause: Famous dissenters and why they are not being heard,’ TT Ram Mohan explores anti-caste activist Kancha Ilaiah’s formative years. KANCHA ILAIAH/ FACEBOOKNEWS BOOK EXCERPT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 – 10:52TT Ram Mohan Ilaiah is…
A Black Sister Came, Saw the Older House and Told Us to Pull it Down
An earth shaking book When I was reading Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, even before completing the book I realised that a Black sister had come to our older house of 3,500 years from an old house of…
‘Mirror image’ textbooks in Andhra will make students realise English is easier than Telugu
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…