by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — August 19, 2018 Counter Current Kerala is reeling under the worst ever floods in its history. Since this is state that has a long sea coast and many rivers the unprecedented flooding has damaged the whole economy…
THE SHEPHERD’S SON STIRRING LOWER-CASTE UNREST IN MODI’S INDIA
By Aayush Soni, Ozy Kancha Ilaiah was in middle school when he was first made aware of his caste. When he tried to seek admission into grade 8 at a government school, the class teacher made fun of his surname, accused…
The Arthashastra of Arun Jaitley – Decoding the top BJP leader’s school of political philosophy
Jaitley has become to Narendra Modi what Manmohan Singh was once to PV Narasimha Rao. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Daily O ShareArun Jaitley, while recuperating from his kidney ailment, did his best to defend his government on economic and legal issues.…
Great Harappa of south India? How the Koya tribal museum is shattering ‘Brahmins are supreme’ myth
Kamaram has paved an exemplary path for cultural revolution in India. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Source Daily O In the first week of June (3rd to 5th), a revolution was initiated by Telangana’s Koya tibals with great futuristic vision in a…
RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system
The Sarsanghchalak’s handbook is not Ambedkar’s Constitution, but Arthashastra. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Source Daily O Kautilya lived in India and wrote his treatise Arthashastra in the third century BC. Niccolò Machiavelli lived in 16th century AD in Italy and wrote…
Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/political-hinduism-shashi-tharoor At the outset of Why I Am a Hindu, the politician and writer Shashi Tharoor—a member of the Nair castes, and so a Shudra—writes that the book is in large part a response to the…