Anti-Not Found Suitable Movement: Rahul Gandhi Enters The Fight
After having a discussion with Delhi University students on 27 May, 2025 the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a social media post, said that a…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Why shouldn’t English be India’s single national language?
This article is based on excerpts from a talk by Prof. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd at the first KP Sasi Webinar on Politics of Language and Language of Politics held on…
Strongly Condemn the Delay of Phule Film
I saw this news on 10th April morning that this great film Phule, which was meant to be released on 11 April (today), has been stopped by the CBFC. The…
The Emerging Trend of Tycoon Nationalism
Under the guidance and massive supply of money by Elon Musk, Donald Trump won the elections in 2024. Ever since the electoral democratic systems came into being in the world,…
Assessment of Manmohan Singh – Sonia Gandhi Ten Year Rule
Dr. Manmohan Singh passed away on 26 December, 2024, at a time when Narendra Modi, an aggressive political leader, in the sense of Aristotle’s phrase ‘man is a political animal’ is…
How Caste And Same-Occupation Marriages Locked Indian Brain Chip?
Abstract This article deals with generational marriages within the same caste and occupation skills of men and women over many generations. It examines how this practice has affected the brain…
Philosophy of Agriculturalism in Ancient India
When I was researching for my latest book The Shudra Rebellion I went back into ancient Indian literature to find out whether there was a philosophical school called Agriculturism around…
V T Rajshekar: A Shetty Converted To Dalitism Left A Legacy That India Never Knew Before
V T Rajshekar's death, on 20 November, 2024, though at the age of 93, saddens me deeply in one sense, but allows me to celebrate his life and legacy. He…
What Should the Shudras Do?
This is the final chapter of Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's, groundbreaking work 'The Shudra Rebellion' that promises to reshape our understanding of Indian civilization and culture. In this compelling book, Ilaiah…
Kangana Ranaut’s Neo-Hindutva Disruption
DOUBLE-EDGED FEMINISM In the cultural tradition of upper castes, particularly the Dwijas, the parampara represented by Amrapali of Magadha times would be condemned as un-Hindu. Their ideal women in mythology…
Olympic Games And RSS As Vishwa Guru
Jyothi Yarraji from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, performed heroically in the 2024 Paris Olympics finishing fourth in the repechage round heat one. As she was in Paris fighting for a medal…
How Labour Produced Philosophy, Not Books
Historically there were two streams of philosophical discourses in the world, more particularly in India: The first one was the philosophy of people, who involved in production---agrarian, artisanal, animal economy…
Third Edition and Sixteenth Reprint of ‘Why I am not a Hindu’
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's Why I am Not a Hindu is a classic that re-shaped the discourse on Indian socio-spiritual systems. Ever since it was published in 1996, it has remained…
How The Congress Manifesto Rattles Hindutva Monopoly Houses
Both Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party have released their 2024 parliament election manifestos. For the first time their approach to welfarism and democracy is expressed very clearly. The Congress manifesto…
Why I Participated In Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra From Mani Bhavan, Mumbai
I started my sociopolitical activism as a Marxist in the 1970s and later turned to Ambedkarism in the 1980s. In both these schools of thought we critiqued Mahatma Gandhi as…
Public Vs Private Education – A New Experiment By Y.S.Jagan Mohan Reddy
There is a lot of curiosity about forthcoming elections in Andhra Pradesh. It goes for both Assembly and Parliament elections simultaneously with a serious contestation between the ruling regional YSRCP…
Andhra Pradesh’s “Transformation Of School Education” Tableau Is A Challenge To Other States
In Andhra Pradesh the Government on 30 January, 2024 entered into an agreement with an international organization to start the school education with IB (Baccalaureate Syllabus) syllabus from class one onwards.…
Kanaka Guru Pitta Must Start English Medium Schools And Connect Shepherds To Global Knowledge
On 13 January, 2024 the Kanaka Guru Pitta headed by Sri. Niranajananda Swami in a massive public meeting attended by the Karnataka Chief Minister Mr. Siddaramaiah, central minister Mr. Bhagwanth…
Preface of New Edition of Post-Hindu India by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
This excerpt is being published from the Preface of the book "Post-Hindu India" written for the new edition by the author published here with permission from publishers. The launch of the…
Barrelakka Is Setting A New Moral Trend In An Immoral Electoral System
Barrelakka (Buffalo Sister), whose original name is Sirisha, is just 25 years old unemployed poorest of the poor girls from Kollapur constituency in South Telangana. She is an independent candidate…
Chidambaram’s New Caste Consciousness
P.Chidambaram is a senior most leader of the Congress party. Besides being a Harvard law graduate, he is a well established political leader in the Congress party. He comes from…
The Clash of Cultures, New Book by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The whole world knows that the center pin of Hindutva ideology is Brahminism. After a careful study of Indian Islamic history I came to a conclusion that the Hindutva’s strength…
Gaddar’s Songs As Revolutionary Theory
This article was written in 1997 by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd on the work and contribution of Gaddar, who died on 6 August 2023 in Hyderabad. Gaddar was shot by the…
The Enemies of Social Change and Unethical Scholarship
On May 17 suddenly I got a video on my watsapp. When I opened it I saw the title "Kancha Ilaiah shepherd: Bharat Vikhander". Two supposedly experts on my work, Sharada…
Now I Am Ravana’s Head
My first reaction to the book that Rajiv Malhotra, from America, published on Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Shashi Tharoor, Ramachandra Guha, Sheldon Pollock, Wendy Doniger, Devdutt Pattanaik, Kancha Ilaiah, Audrey…
Shudra Wrestlers Vs Ksatriya Controllers: The Battle For Women’s Rights
“An investigation of police records by The Indian Express reveals that since March 2017, when Yogi Adityanath took charge, and till date, the state has witnessed 186 encounters. This works…
Siddaramaiah: A Rational Shudra/OBC With A Commitment To Agriculturism
A narrative is being built from Delhi that the Congress won the Karnataka elections because of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. No doubt it played a role, but without a…
Teaching English to the sheep
In the context of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governments introducing English medium in all Government schools to give confidence to the village children and teachers, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd gave these…
Muslim intellectuals must write about caste within and without Islam: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
This is a Foreword by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd to a well known book of Ali Anwar called Masawat Ki Jung (Hindi) on caste among Muslims. The English version is now…
Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?
Lot of discussion and writing is happening in India about anti-caste laws and rules getting framed in America, the dream land of Dwijas of India. Several Hindutva intellectuals are telling…
Why did Tulsidas ask his God Rama to punish Shudras and women not Mughal rulers?
The anti-Shudra, Dalit and women language of Tulsidas in his Ramcharitamanas engendered a major controversy in North India. Its impact could also be seen in the South, which already had a strong…
The Anti-Caste Pen Force
One who practices caste is a devil That devil has to be driven out of India India must be made a country of equality. The tiller must sow the letters…
English India In The Making
October 5th is International Teachers Day. It is also Indian English Day. English language education has a history of 205 years in India. Incidentally October 5th is also my 70th…
Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie
I am deeply shocked to know about such a brutal attack on the globally renowned writer Salman Rushdie in New York by forces that have been planning to kill him…
Human as Christian-2
How labour and God shaped the world As I went late to school in life, perhaps after eight years I was born, in mid 1960 (my school record birth day…
Is The Congress On Suicide Course?
The Congress Party’s ideological steps remind us of a famous saying of Lenin “ One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward’ not in a tactical sense of retreating and advancing with…
Human As Christian
My name is Ilaiah--O, you are from a wretched caste I added Shepherd to it--O, you have become a Christian I read and write--O, you have violated the Dharma I…
St. Devasahayam’s Caste, Crucifixion And His Resurrection As A Global Shudra Saint
The canonization of the first ever layman of India, Devasahayam, or Lazarus (1712--1752) as saint, on the lines of Mother Theresa or on the lines of St.Peter, by the Vatican…
An Open Letter To Muslims And Christians Of India
As some of you are aware, I am a Shudra intellectual and activist, working and writing to change the unequal conditions of the Dalits, Adivasis and Shudras (including the Other…
The Christian Schools And Brahmin Women
In 1971 , when I left school, I was sure that I was opting out of the traditional Brahmin world--it was too burdensome for a woman to carry that cross.…
The Russian Orthodox Church And The World Crisis
Extreme religious or anti-religious engagement of the ruling political forces in modern times would have serious negative consequences for the society as whole and the state apparatus. The Russian experience shows…
Telengana Armed Struggle Hero Bandru Narsimhulu Dies At 106
On 22 January, 2022 a 106 years old Bandru Narsimhulu died in Hyderabad with a heart attack. Otherwise he was still active. When he was much active he entered into…
The Shudra/OBC Delhi Declaration
On 21 December, 2021 a majorNational Shudra/OBC conclave took place in Delhi Talkatora stadium with hundreds of Shudra/OBC activists, intellectuals and political leaders across the parties, different universities and civil…
The Shudras in Hindtva – Living Without a Soul
Introduction: The Hindutva school has been in power since 2014. It wants to rule India forever. Actually it was never out of power in another sense of the concept, power.…
Clash of Cultures in India
With the BJP coming to power in 2014 and also in 2019 for the second time the Clash of Cultures in India is increasing day by day. After it came to…
What English Has Done To India And The World?
By October 5, 2021 English language life in India is 204 years. For the last few years the celebration of Indian English Day on that day is catching up. Ever…
Caste Census And Secular Intellectuals
The debate on caste, not just OBC, census is becoming a serious political issue in the country. But the secular, liberal and left intellectuals--economists, sociologists, political scientists-- are behaving as if they…
India Will Remember Gail Omvedt For Ever
Dr.Gail Omvedt, (81) one of the greatest scholars on caste studies passed away on 24 August 2021 evening in her village Kesegaon Maharashtra. She has pioneered caste studies having come…
The Shudra Kings And Brahmins: A mirror image of history
But for the accidental reading of Shahu Maharaj’s letter to the retired Governor of Bombay presidency, Lord Sydenham, written in 1918, I would not have thought of writing this essay.…
Modi, Mohan Bhagwat And The Secular Morality
After Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanchalak of the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), addressed the ‘positivity unlimited’ theme about Covid calamity of India on 15 May, 2021, even secular writers in the…
The Hindutva Cow Urine Cultural Nationalism And The Corona Crisis
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…
Shudras And The Central Universities
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…
How ‘Shudra’ And OBC Categories Differ?
When we were finalizing the title of my latest book The Shudras--Vision for a New Path edited along with Karthik Raja Karuppusamy for Penguin, there was a serious view that the concept…
Disha Ravi Is Nation’s Heroine
The nation must be thankful to Prime Minister Narender Modi and Amit Shah, more so to the RSS/BJP for giving this nation young leaders of future. Disha Ravi is definitely…
The Rightist Regimes, Monopoly Houses And State
In a globalized world market the monopoly houses are growing in a manner that they could control the democratic state apparatus in the countries of their headquarters like never before.…
Farmers Are Tillers, Not Killers
Kangana Ranaut again and again is attacking the Indian farmers as terrorists. She has done that in response to the world famous pop singer Rihanna and famous environmentalist girl Greta’s…
How Aakar Patel Under-Read The Character Of Hindu Rashtra? A Review Article
Aakar Patel starts his timely and well-researched book Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here with a sentence “Majoritarianism is primitive and easy to do”. He surmises…
Does RSS Have A Positive Agrarian Policy?
In the context of a massive farmer agitation to protect the agrarian productive mass self-respect and future of their age old occupation, it is important to see whether the ruling…
The Shudra Civilization
India is a nation of second largest population in the world. China is the first largest populated nation with a land size bigger than India. India’s population according to 2011…
Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?
I kept watching the funerals of people killed by the brutal coronavirus in the global pandemic of Covid-19 on TV channels and read about them in newspapers. Those dead bodies…
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