First Brahmins benefited from the pro-English agitations of Tamil people. Now Amit Shah's agenda is harming Shudra/Dalit/Adivasi global job prospects. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda of ‘One nation, One language’ is back, … Continue reading India’s Brahmin, Baniya profited from English. BJP-RSS want to deny that to Dalit, Adivasis

India got Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule and BR Ambedkar, the first Shudra and Dalit intellectuals, only after their communities could access English medium schools. kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 01 Apr 2022 India got consciously organised no earlier than from the mid-19th century onwards. If we seek a benchmark period for the modern Indian nation-state that … Continue reading How English Language Initiated the Idea of Nationalism in India | NewsClick

Changing Kanshi Ram's fundamental slogan of ‘Bahujan Samaj’ to ‘Sarvajan Samaj’ has cost Mayawati and BSP. UP and Punjab election results were expected. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/mayawati-bsps-political-evaporation-certain-blame-it-on-shift-to-sarvajan-samaj-in-2007/875933/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 File photo of BSP chief Mayawati | PTI In the recent Uttar Pradesh and Punjab elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party, headed by Mayawati, remained almost invisible like the Left parties … Continue reading Mayawati & BSP’s political ‘evaporation’ certain. Blame it on shift to ‘Sarvajan Samaj’ in 2007

in World — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Extreme religious or anti-religious engagement of the ruling political forces in modern times would have serious negative consequences for the society as whole and the state apparatus. The Russian experience shows this very clearly. The communist phase of Russia was completely anti-religion. Now Putin’s Russia is deeply associated with the Orthodox Church that … Continue reading The Russian Orthodox Church And The World Crisis