by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd After having a discussion with Delhi University students on 27 May, 2025 the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a social media post, said that a practice of “not found suitable” was being followed in case of vacancies on SC/ST and OBC seats and called it a new … Continue reading Anti-Not Found Suitable Movement: Rahul Gandhi Enters The Fight
Month: May 2025
What if the real builders of Indian civilisation never got to write the story?
Kancha Ilaiah’s The Shudra Rebellion rewrites history from below, where spades built cities and obedience was not a choice. CYNTHIA STEPHEN A depiction of a Channar couple from the illustrated manuscript Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India (1837). | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians … Continue reading What if the real builders of Indian civilisation never got to write the story?
Caste Census: Who Wins When We Count Caste? Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Caste census a huge step against RSS tradition; will Sangh agree to it?
Kancha llaiah Shepherd Caste is a mystical psychological category. It makes people crazy when entitlements are assigned on the basis of its oppressive history. It makes a progressive a reactionary when the oppressed caste's shade reaches the comfort zone of the oppressor castes | Representative image: iStock While Rahul Gandhi went against the understanding of … Continue reading Caste census a huge step against RSS tradition; will Sangh agree to it?
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