Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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