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 they live in a democracy under this constitution. This is a great nationalist step. Every state Government in the country must do … Continue reading Make Reading Preamble of the Constitution Compulsory

After the Citizenship Amendment Act became a reality in the middle of December, protests broke out across India. By now, about 25 people have been killed around the country, most of them falling to police bullets. Even in the Jayaprakash Narayan movement against Indira Gandhi in the mid-1970s and the subsequent Emergency, such massive nationwide … Continue reading CAA-NRC debate: If religion is allowed to colour civil rights, India’s democracy will be imperiled

The RSS head's recent speech is testament to a vision where the lines between being Indian and being Hindu are blurred haphazardly. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 31/DEC/2019 The Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Mohan Bhagwat, gave a speech in Hyderabad in which he defined Hindus and Hinduism totally differently. The speech was delivered on Christmas … Continue reading In Mohan Bhagwat’s India, Everyone Is a Hindu