The scholar has penned a poem and has made an appeal to sing it as a prayer in schools By Basant Kumar Mohanty in New Delhi, The Telegraph Dalit-Bahujan scholar Kancha Ilaiah, author of Why I am not a Hindu, has added Shepherd to his name to assert the dignity of his parental profession. In … Continue reading Kancha Ilaiah wants schoolchildren to sing the song of equality

By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, FIRSTPOST Hinduism is being defined as a religion like Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Till the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Hindu Mahasabha came into being, it wasn’t seen as a religion like the other three. Hinduism was treated as a social collective of different ways of life but now it … Continue reading Hinduism denies spiritual rights to Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis

REVIEW of “From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectuals--Mmy Memoirs by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Sage/Samya/Select. PP 360 by Aappu Back in the early 2000s when I was a university student in Delhi, Kancha Ilaiah was all the rage. His book, Why I am not a Hindu, had come out and it was extensively read and … Continue reading ILAIAH LIVED HIS PHILOSOPHY