Great Harappa of south India? How the Koya tribal museum is shattering ‘Brahmins are supreme’ myth

Kamaram has paved an exemplary path for cultural revolution in India. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Source Daily O In the first week of June (3rd to 5th), a revolution was initiated by Telangana’s Koya tibals with great futuristic vision in a deeply indigenous village called Kamaram (this is also known as Koyatoor) near Tadvai in Bhoopalpally … Continue reading Great Harappa of south India? How the Koya tribal museum is shattering ‘Brahmins are supreme’ myth

RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system

The Sarsanghchalak's handbook is not Ambedkar’s Constitution, but Arthashastra. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Source Daily O Kautilya lived in India and wrote his treatise Arthashastra in the third century BC. Niccolò Machiavelli lived in 16th century AD in Italy and wrote his book The Prince. Arthashastra, though an economic title, is actually about statecraft, with a preamble … Continue reading RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system

Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor

By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/political-hinduism-shashi-tharoor At the outset of Why I Am a Hindu, the politician and writer Shashi Tharoor—a member of the Nair castes, and so a Shudra—writes that the book is in large part a response to the “intolerant and often violent forms of Hindutva that began to impose themselves on the public … Continue reading Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor

4 years of Modi: OBCs have got zero from their OBC PM

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Published: May 27th 2018, 08.06 AM https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/obc-have-got-zero-from-their-obc-pm PTI Photo PM Modi addressing a rally in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh on Saturday Modi may tom-tom his OBC credentials but he has done nothing till now to benefit them. OBCs have been asking for reservation in private sector, in Parliament … Continue reading 4 years of Modi: OBCs have got zero from their OBC PM