The author and thinker Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd alleged that "left liberals joining hands with fundamentalist Muslim youth" are curtailing his freedom of expression. He further alleged that "leftists think that…
Co-written by Praveen Kolluguri & Raj Kumar Paseddula A few days ago, Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd wrote an article in the Telugu newspaper Sakshi titled “The Only Way Forward is to Live…
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was disinvited from 'Hortus' Arts and Literary Festival hosted by Malayala Manorama in Kozhikode Kerala from November 1-3. Kancha Ilaiah alleges that this was due to an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
Renowned intellectual Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has won the 'Ma Jati Suryudu' Award. The award will be presented on 13 January 2024 by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The award is presented…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(This is concluding and Part-3 of an article. ) English medium at primary school level is certainly harmful, more so to the rural and poorer masses. That is a…
English medium at primary school level is certainly harmful, more so to the rural and poorer masses. That is a key lesson in my life’s experiences, both as a…
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…
In spite of the fact that the Supreme Court of India in its three judge bench judgment on October 12, 2017 said that my book ‘Smajika Smugglerlu-Komatollu’ cannot be banned,…
Dr Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd whose book “Smajika Smugglerlu: Komatollu’’ angered the Hindutva forces posted threatening posters in front of his house. According to Dr Kancha Ilaiah these posters which appeared…
The Sangh Parivar elements that worked hand in glove with Arya Vysyas, who wanted to lynch me at Parkal on 23 September, after the TDP Parliament member T.G Venkatesh…
One of the recurring accusations of the recent Arya Vysya agitators and their associate Paripurnanada Swamy, a hater of St. Mother Theresa and Christian human service, against me is that…
A collection of quotes From Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s Speeches SC/ST/OBCs are nationalists, What About Narendra Modi’s Big Brothers’ Capital. How many jobs they get in that capital?----Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Minorities are…
While it is nobody’s suggestion that India was a tolerant land some three years back and suddenly has developed the intolerance but none can deny the facts that the…
As I and Dr. Bheenaveni Ramaiah (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Osmania University), one of my relatives, my Driver narrowly missed a major murderous attack at Parakal, Bhupalpally district on 23/9/2017…
T.G. Venaktesh, an extremist Arya Vysya leader held a press conference on 18/9/2017 in a luxury hotel in Hyderabad with an extremist, conspitorial Arya Vysya team and issued a threat…
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