People do not vote for the BJP because it promises to make a BC leader the Chief Minister. Kancha Ilaiah ShepherdMonday, June 21, 2021 – 14:15 Courtesy: PTIhttps://babadd5a786dfbb2dc6c8c03527685e8.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html?n=0 In both the Telugu states, the Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to…
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As India struggles with Covid-19, can the RSS escape responsibility for the crisis?
The ruling party’s parent organisation failed to gauge the enormity of the medical crisis and to direct the BJP to act appropriately. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi primarily responsible for India’s current Covid-19 tragedy? On May 15,…
A team that never was a hope provider for the poor
Mohan Bhagwat, Jaggi Vasudev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to “create hope” amidst Coronavirus pandemic Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd18 May 2021 Image Courtesy:newsroompost.com Just a few days ago, I saw an interesting news item on my mobile phone. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
Why it’s Stalin and Pinarayi’s ideology and not Mamata’s that India needs
For the BJP/RSS, Tamil Nadu and Kerala were more ideological battlegrounds than West Bengal, as Bengal politics was operating very much within the Dwija control. VOICES OPINION FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2021 – 15:03Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Stalin was a Russian ruler who did…
The Hindutva Cow Urine Cultural Nationalism And The Corona Crisis
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…
Supreme Court’s flawed verdict on Maratha quota shows why factoring caste history is crucial
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+…
What YS Sharmila’s leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes | The News Minute
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,…
The Shudras at the Heart of Tikait
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…
Shudras And The Central Universities
in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd A well-known Dalit scholar Gopal Guru, presently editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, once wrote that “Indian Social Science represents a pernicious divide between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras’ (2002). But Shudras did not get much…
G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy – The Hindu
Review G. Sampath This anthology brings the spotlight on challenges facing a people who form not only the majority of India’s population but also the majority among Hindus The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. It…