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…
Macaulay Is Very Relevant Today and Helps Dalits, OBCs Join the Global Economy
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…
How anti-caste activist Usaa left strong footprints on the soil of Telugu states
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…
Agriculturalism And Hindutva
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…
Only if they Learn English can OBCs Take Advantage of Reservation | NewsClick
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…
India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd – India News , Firstpost
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…