Why The Farmers Need English Education? Indian English Day Diary
Every October 5 is being celebrated as Indian English day by several equal medium education lovers in India. This is 203rd year of the birth of English medium school education…
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Who Wrote Kulanirmulana: Voka Marxist Dhukpadham (Annihilation of Caste: A Marxist Approach)
From Devulapally Venkateswara Rao group one Suryaprakash and Krishna have been writing very unreadable document type of writeups against me. They have been trying to spread lies as information, rubbish…
Can Brahmins Bring Revolution: An Assessment Through The Prism Of Tarimela Nagi Reddy
What is known as Devulapally Venkateswar Rao (DVR) defenders team, attacked my recent article on Usaa Barber. One of their objects was to assert that DVR, a vegetarian conservative Brahmin,…
When The PM’s Rama Is Different From That Of RSS/BJP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not just in his personal capacity, but in his capacity as the Prime Minister of 130 crore Indians quite unexpectedly re-defined Rama totally in a different…
Usaa, The Greatest Revolutionary Barber After Upali, Died of COVID-19
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…
Macaulay Putras And The New Education Policy: Shudras/Dalits/Adivasis Must Be Vigilant
The BJP Education Policy (BEP)2020 has been formalised with a Cabinet approval on July 30, 2020. It is drafted by Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (79) the BJP’s Education Committee Chairman. He was…
Agriculturalism And Hindutva
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…
India Needs High Jump, Not Yoga To Win War With China
War between India and China is on the cards. Though there is a retreat on both sides for the time being there is every possibility that war would break out…
Early India, Goats And Brahmins
I met Tony Joseph, the author of Early Indians - the History of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From[1], first in Jaipur Literature Festival in 2019 and next at…
Why Dalit Lives Do Not Matter?
A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Domkhera village in Amroha district at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was shaking the…
Manifesto For English Education For A Post Corona India
Post corona India will be more poverty-ridden. Poverty will expand the scope of inequality as we have seen how inequality exists between Ambanis, Adani and other monopoly capitalists on the…
Jaganmohan Reddy’s Fight To Impart English Education In Government Schools Met With Resistance
Human equality is a major problem of India. Historically ownership of property created human inequality in all countries. Caste gradations in education also created an unbridgeable inequality in India. This…
Shall We Change The Status Of Safai Sainiks Now? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Corona attack on India seems to have suddenly changed our understanding of Safai karmacharis of India. They are now seen as desh bhakts even by those who never recognized their…
“State Is The March Of God On Earth”: Re-examining Hegel In Times Of Corona Crisis
Famous German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel was the first philosopher who linked social science and natural science by applying the principle of Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis. He effectively separated State and…
Disease Distancing, Not “Social Distancing” | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Ever since the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced national lock down on March 24, 2020 to fight Covid--19 and declared that “Social Distancing” is the only solution to save India…
How To Save The Nation Sitting At Home | Kancha Ilaiah Shepehrd
We are all house arrested now because of Coronavirus for our own safety. We do not know how to live like this. In India and in many countries during lock…
How Did Indian Masses Cope With 1897 Plague Pandemic? |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Covid -19 has shaken the globalized world in a manner that it never knew before. Having taken its birth in Wuhan, China its first attack focused on air conditioned travel…
Lessons That Amrutha Taught Society
On September 14, 2018 Perumalla Pranay, a Dalit young man of 24 was hacked to death in Miryalaguda, Telanaga in front of his pregnant wife Amrutha. Amrutha belongs to Arya Vaishy family and got married to him in defiance of her father, Maruthirao. Amrutha…
The Dilemma Of RSS/BJP In Higher Education | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The State run universities in India have created a major crisis in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) rule and their ideological apparatus. On the one…
Why Walls Around Gujarat Model Of Development? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Assume that Donald Trump is coming to address 'Namasthe Trump' meeting in Hyderabad or Vishkhapatnam or Bangaluru or to Chennai or Cochin there would not have been a need for…
Ambedkar And Martin Luther King: The Giant Epoch Makers | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The Ambedkar-King Study Circle of the United States of America by asking me to give a keynote on the occasion of its Annual Conference 2019, gave me a great opportunity…
Are OBCs Not Eligible To Be On Sri Ram Temple Trust? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
After the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Ram temple trust the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, who over saw the Babri Msjid destruction, Kalyan Singh and Uma Bharati,…
Equality Labs Chases The Mother Of Inequality (Brahminism) In America | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
To the utter shock of American Brahminism an unusual organization called Equality Labs came into being in New York. IT was established by second generation, American born, Dalit women activists…
Make Reading Preamble of the Constitution Compulsory | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The Government of Maharastra has made reading Preamble of the constitution compulsory in the school assembly meetings every morning. From primary school to high school, students must remind themselves that…
Why RSS/BJP Hate JNU And Social Sciences?
The attack by masked forces, who were freely allowed to enter the JNU campus and injured teachers and students tell a new story of the BJP rule in Delhi. It…
Attack On Students and Teachers: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Withdraws From New Indian Express Conclave
To, Mr. Prabhu Chawla Editorial Director New Indian Express Chennai. Dear Mr. Prabhu Chawla You have invited me to speak in a panel on 8 January in the Educational Conclave…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Condemns Attack on JNU Teachers and Students
I strongly condemn the brutal attack on JNU Teachers and Students on 5 January, 2020. Under the present BJP/RSS rule unusual levels of violence has been let loose on campuses.…
A Shudra Appeal To Congress
I am a Shudra by birth and a son of shepherd mother and father. My parents and ancestors were meat and milk producers. Their contribution to the nation was through…
RSS/BJP Ideology Is No Spiritual Citizenship To Shudras And No National Citizenship To Muslims
The Hindutva, a political child of the Brahminic Hindu religion, denied spiritual citizenship to Shudras historically. Now it has decided to deny national citizenship to Muslims. The Brahmin/Bania forces want…
The Question That Won A Big Battle
In Andhra Pradesh Assembly the anti-English medium, opposition leader, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, surrendered in a debate on 12 December, 2019. He said “we are not opposing introduction of English medium…
How To End Rapism In India?
The culture of raping women both for personal gratification of persons involved or as a weapon of oppression is killing the public morale of the nation within and globally. The…
Do English Educated Become Christians?
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy remained firm on the question of introducing English medium in Government schools and issued the orders to start the new education programme from…
Countering Hypocrisy of Ruling Class on English Medium Education in Government Schools
The Y.S.Jaganmohan Reddy Government recently issued orders for implementation of English medium in Government schools from the academic year 2020-21. It said that from next academic year from class 1…
BJP’s Linguistic Agenda Is Antithetical to Progress and Education
Whom exactly does Amit Shah want to impose the learning of Hindi on in south India and the northeast? Clearly, this proposal is only applicable to poor children in villages…
RSS admits Christian women are better educated: time to drop anti-conversion laws
It was a pleasant surprise last week to come across a news report about the findings of a survey done by what was described as a ‘RSS think tank’ on…
How Much Grip Does Hinduism Has On Indian Communists? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The role of Hindu religion on the Indian state and governing forces is coming up for more and more discussion after the Bharatiya Janatha Party and the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh…
Equality Is UnIndian: How To Make It Indian Is The Question | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
In my village in my childhood and now there was/is one common practice. Each occupation is performed by a single community. Each community has its own name. Tilling the land,…
Will The Left Survive In India? | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
2019 elections have hit the left parties harder than even the Congress. Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks about the Congress Mukth Bharat, historically the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the…
Intermedia Must Be Abolished In Two States | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The intermediate examination board of Telangana has created a massive systemic crisis. About 20 students have already committed suicide and many more are likely to die. The solution to this…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd – Shudras Never Were Allowed To Learn A National Language
In the recent Parliament elections in the two Telugu states there was an interesting discussion: who speaks good English whether Chandrbabu Naidu or Jaganmohan Reddy or KCR? Three of them…
First Dalit Collector Who Changed A Feudal District In The 1970s
Next to Hyderabad, Warangal is the second biggest city of the Telangana state. Most of the present Telangana state’s heritage symbols, Kakatiya Gate, and its tank based irrigation system go…
10 Percent EWS Reservation And The Unreserved Shudras
After the central Government has reserved 10 percent seats to the castes of general category the Andhra Pradesh Government brought out a GO allocating 5 percent of the seats and…
Anand Teltumbde was arrested over the Bhima Koregaon case – A Celebration he strongly opposes
Teltumbde is a popular Dalit scholar and activist and his writings expressing deep disagreements with Maoists are very much in the public sphere. How did the state miss seeing them?…
Pinarayi Vijayan’s Social Reform Has Defeated the Sabarimala Protests
After the Ayyapa jatara ended on January 14 with the so called ‘Makara Jyothi’ appearing for the devotees at Sabarimala, Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister of the Left front government, emerged a…
Harappa To Ayyappa
Harappa! We are all your descendants You shepherded the first civilization You built the first city in the East You domesticated the early animals Goat, sheep, buffalo, dog and donkey.…
Sabarimala row: While he defends ‘tradition’, will PM Modi also guarantee protection to Bindu and Kanakadurga?
The entry of two women devotees, Bindu and Kanakadurga, into the sanctum sanctorum of the Sabarimala temple on January 2 led to widespread violence in the state of Kerala. The…
Why Pinarayi Vijayan must take the RSS-BJP head-on in the Sabarimala fight. The fight is now for more than the one temple
In rural Andhra Pradesh, there is a proverb that is reportedly used by rapists against their victims, “Allow me to rape you — or I’ll cut my own organ [presumably,…
RSS/BJP And The Shudra Neo-Slaves
What is the status of Shudras who constitute the largest social bloc in India? In the North India, the Yadavs, Kurmis of Bihar, Yadavs and Jats of Uttar Pradesh, Gujjars…
Preface To Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s Autobiography “From A Shepherd Boy To An Intellectual–My Memoirs”
This is the Preface of the just released Autobiography of Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd entitled "From A Shepherd Boy To An Intellectual--My Memoirs". Published by Samya/Sage (Select) New Delhi. Countercurrents…
Delhi University Proposes To Remove My Books From The Syllabus
The meeting of the Delhi University Standing Committee for Academic Affairs, according to media reports, in its meeting on 24 October, 2018 has recommended to drop teaching of my three…
Shabarimala Temple Entry: All Shudras Must Oppose NSS Manuvadam
The Nair Service Society (NSS) is supporting the most destructive anti-women Anti-Shudra Manuvadam in the name of Shabarimala temple’s sanctity . The Nair men for centuries surrendered the Nair…
A Call To Shudra/OBC/SC/STs To Celebrate October 5 As Indian English Day
I appeal to all the Shudra/OBC/SC/STs to celebrate the Indian English Day on 5 October, 2018 as we have no significant place in the world of English even after 201…
How Vedic Brahminism Stunted The Development Of Sciences
After the Bharatiya Janatha Party came to power and ruled the nation for two terms from 1999-2004 and 2014 to present a lot of propaganda by the Brahminic pundits belonging…
How Brahmins Negated The Progress of India
In my earlier article “Shudras Built The Indus Valley Civilization!” I argued that the Agni and Vayu worshipping Rigvedic Aryans might have caused the destruction of 1500 years of Harappan…
Shudras Built The Indus Valley Civilization!
The archaeological evidence shows that the first ever city—Harappa-- was built in the Indian Sub-continent around 2850-2900 Before Christ in the world. The name Harappa sounds like a South Indian…
While Kerala Is Under Flood Waters The Right Wing Is Spewing Venom!
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…
What Is My Philosophy? -Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
After I wrote Why I am Not a Hindu and Post-Hindu India the Brahmin- Banias ( the castes that control Hindu spiritual system and the whole business system of India)…
India’s Dalit Spring, The OBCs And The Hindutva Game Plan – Kancha Ilaiah
The other day a friend of mine said “What India is witnessing is a rule of radical Hinduism, like radical Islamic, radical Christian and radical Buddhist rule in the world…
T-MASS: A New Experiment In Ambedkarite-Marxist Alliance
The newly formed organization popularly called T-MASS is a registered organization under the Telangana Government’s Registration Act with a name “Telangana Mass and Social Organizations”. Under its broad umbrella…
Ambrose Pinto: A God’s Man Who Walked The Talk
Ambrose pinto’s death after struggling with treacherous cancer for about Six months on 3 January of 2018 made me feel that this year would be bad for Dalits. His…
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