Kancha Ilaiah Sheperd’s memoirs is riveting and takes us into truly uncharted territories that has been traversed by the versatile scholar. The book is unputdownable Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Brahminic learning was practising letter and number writing, whereas our learning was practical and theoretical simultaneously. It was a school of life generation, combined with medicinal value. … Continue reading Book extract: From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual

The scholar has penned a poem and has made an appeal to sing it as a prayer in schools By Basant Kumar Mohanty in New Delhi, The Telegraph Dalit-Bahujan scholar Kancha Ilaiah, author of Why I am not a Hindu, has added Shepherd to his name to assert the dignity of his parental profession. In … Continue reading Kancha Ilaiah wants schoolchildren to sing the song of equality

By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, FIRSTPOST Hinduism is being defined as a religion like Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Till the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Hindu Mahasabha came into being, it wasn’t seen as a religion like the other three. Hinduism was treated as a social collective of different ways of life but now it … Continue reading Hinduism denies spiritual rights to Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis