The Sarsanghchalak's handbook is not Ambedkar’s Constitution, but Arthashastra. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Source Daily O Kautilya lived in India and wrote his treatise Arthashastra in the third century BC. Niccolò Machiavelli lived in 16th century AD in Italy and wrote his book The Prince. Arthashastra, though an economic title, is actually about statecraft, with a preamble … Continue reading RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system
Month: May 2018
Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/political-hinduism-shashi-tharoor At the outset of Why I Am a Hindu, the politician and writer Shashi Tharoor—a member of the Nair castes, and so a Shudra—writes that the book is in large part a response to the “intolerant and often violent forms of Hindutva that began to impose themselves on the public … Continue reading Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor
4 years of Modi: OBCs have got zero from their OBC PM
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Published: May 27th 2018, 08.06 AM https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/obc-have-got-zero-from-their-obc-pm PTI Photo PM Modi addressing a rally in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh on Saturday Modi may tom-tom his OBC credentials but he has done nothing till now to benefit them. OBCs have been asking for reservation in private sector, in Parliament … Continue reading 4 years of Modi: OBCs have got zero from their OBC PM
What Is My Philosophy? -Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — Countercurrents 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) communities of Telugu states threatened to kill me. Several cases were filed against me. The intellectuals from these two most wealthy … Continue reading What Is My Philosophy? -Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd