The RSS and BJP will turn India into an Indralok where the elites will enjoy the benefits of global education and Hindi-educated OBCs, Dalits will become its gatekeepers. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD 11 January, 2023 11:53 am IST PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah | Praveen Jain | ThePrint File photo The Narendra Modi … Continue reading Yale, Oxford in India is Modi govt’s way to wedge divide, take OBCs, Dalits back to dark past

In India, the road towards primitive controls on the thinking mind is being cemented further with each passing day, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. PTI FEATURES OPINION FRIDAY, JANUARY 06, 2023 - 18:06 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Ever since the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) backed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the Union government in 2014 and subsequently came to … Continue reading Opinion: RSS-BJP kill scientific thought by branding it as anti-national | The News Minute

Since caste was around before Islam arrived, how did Muslim clerics, scholars and rulers view it? After Islam came to India, the only writer who discussed the caste question was Alberuni in the 11th century Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The dais at BJP's Pasmanda Conference in Lucknow on October 16, 2022. Photo: By arrangement. Last month, … Continue reading Why Didn’t India’s Muslim Rulers and Thinkers Confront the Inequities of the Caste System?

BY KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD DECEMBER 31, 2022 Under the pretext of ‘saving the mother tongue,’ these NRIs are opposing English medium government schools — where Dalits and other marginalized groups get an education — even as they and their relatives in India provide their children with the best English education available. That’s hypocrisy. “Kuvempu took the … Continue reading Why Some Telugu Groups in America are Opposed to Providing English Education to the Poor in Andhra? – American Kahani