दलित समुदाय की बारेलक्का साफगोई से अपनी बात कहती हैं और उनके संवाद कौशल से जनता और मीडिया दोनों ही प्रभावित हैं। उन्हें चुनाव मैदान से हटने के लिए धमकाया गया और उनके छोटे भाई, जो स्कूल में पढ़ते हैं, पर हमला भी हुआ। मगर उन्होंने मैदान नहीं छोड़ा। पढ़ें, प्रो. कांचा आइलैय्या शेपर्ड की … Continue reading तेलंगाना : धनबल और बाहुबल का जवाब दे रही भैंस वाली बहन बारेलक्का

in Book Review by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 27/11/2023 This excerpt is being published from the Preface of the book “Post-Hindu India” written for the new edition by the author published here with permission from publishers. The launch of the book is already advertised by the Penguin India website. The copies of the book will be available for sale both … Continue reading Preface of New Edition of Post-Hindu India by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 26/11/2023 Barrelakka (Buffalo Sister), whose original name is Sirisha, is just 25 years old unemployed poorest of the poor girls from Kollapur constituency in South Telangana. She is an independent candidate as representative of unemployed youth and creating new electoral culture and morality in a state where money power has increased several … Continue reading Barrelakka Is Setting A New Moral Trend In An Immoral Electoral System

Over the decades, Indian economists and politicians have completely ignored the agrarian classes but things are changing.  Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 15 hours ago  Representative image of farmers in Goa. Credit: Public Doman After I wrote a piece titled ‘Rahul Gandhi is Reshaping Congress Welfare Agenda: I Call it the Shudra Development Model’, there has been quite … Continue reading The RSS-BJP Economic Development Model: Support the Upper Castes and Ignore Bahujans