U Sambasiva Rao's legacy as a revolutionary, a human rights defender, and an anti-caste ideologue will live on, Kancha Ilaiah writes. NEWS OBITUARY SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2020 - 13:46Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd U Sambasiva Rao (1950-2020) — popularly known as Usaa, passed away in the early hours of July 25, 2020 in a private hospital in Hyderabad while … Continue reading How anti-caste activist Usaa left strong footprints on the soil of Telugu states

in Life/Philosophy — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd — July 24, 2020FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailShare0 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 Xu Xing (372-289 BCE). His main philosophy was that people’s propensity is based on farming than to any other thing. … Continue reading Agriculturalism And Hindutva

Only if they Learn English can OBCs Take Advantage of ReservationReservation is a crutch but English-medium education could have been their leg.Pragya Singh15 Jul 2020 On the 30th anniversary of reservations for backward classes, the well-known social scientist, writer and activist, Prof Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd says Mandal has not fulfilled what it set out to … Continue reading Only if they Learn English can OBCs Take Advantage of Reservation | NewsClick

India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Our political life, lived around only village panchayats before 1950, is now connected to a larger constitutional democracy. In the future, this nationalist view will gain more prominence. The RSS nationalism will slowly but surely wither away.Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd June 18, … Continue reading India and the Indian: My nationalism competes with China, not Pakistan, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd – India News , Firstpost