May 27, 2014, 7:52 am IST kancha ilaiah First time in Indian history, a PM declared that he hailed from a lower caste India's 15th Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI/File) “The coming decade is of dalits and other weaker sections.”Narendra Modi, March 2, 2014Narendra Modi’s spectacular win across India packs in massive implications for … Continue reading Modi: Lincoln or Bush?

Opposing the use of the English language as the medium of teaching and learning in public institutions and allowing it to flourish in private institutions is a dangerous method that over a period of time will lead to Indian English becoming the new Sanskrit – a preserve of the few, writes Kancha Ilaiah ShepherdBY  KANCHA … Continue reading World-class private universities and Hindu-Hindi public universities

As long as there are foreign-educated, dominant-caste ministers who find a Cabinet position via Rajya Sabha, SCs, STs and OBCs will continue to lose out. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a group photograph with ministers during the swearing-in ceremony as part of Union Cabinet expansion, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi today … Continue reading Why Modi’s Cabinet reshuffle doesn’t really benefit SCs, STs and OBCs

Stan Swamy has saved India by his death. The world has come to know how the Indian regime could crucify one who worked for the most oppressed. Our constitutional democracy obviously has not changed the hearts of those who don’t love the Tribals and Dalits as fellow human beings, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd By Kancha Ilaiah … Continue reading St Stan Swamy – declared a saint by the Adivasis, Dalits and Shudras