After the Citizenship Amendment Act became a reality in the middle of December, protests broke out across India. By now, about 25 people have been killed around the country, most of them falling to police bullets. Even in the Jayaprakash Narayan movement against Indira Gandhi in the mid-1970s and the subsequent Emergency, such massive nationwide … Continue reading CAA-NRC debate: If religion is allowed to colour civil rights, India’s democracy will be imperiled

The RSS head's recent speech is testament to a vision where the lines between being Indian and being Hindu are blurred haphazardly. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 31/DEC/2019 The Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Mohan Bhagwat, gave a speech in Hyderabad in which he defined Hindus and Hinduism totally differently. The speech was delivered on Christmas … Continue reading In Mohan Bhagwat’s India, Everyone Is a Hindu

RSS/BJP Ideology Is No Spiritual Citizenship To Shudras And No National Citizenship To Muslims in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd —December 23, 2019 The Hindutva, a political child of the Brahminic Hindu religion, denied spiritual citizenship to Shudras historically. Now it has decided to deny national citizenship to Muslims. The Brahmin/Bania forces want to … Continue reading RSS/BJP Ideology Is No Spiritual Citizenship To Shudras And No National Citizenship To Muslims

The Question That Won A Big Battle in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd —December 19, 2019 In Andhra Pradesh Assembly the anti-English medium, opposition leader, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, surrendered in a debate on 12 December, 2019. He said “we are not opposing introduction of English medium in Government schools’. With this surrender all his … Continue reading The Question That Won A Big Battle