Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd | 06 May 2026 The Telangana Socio, Economic Education, Employment, Political and Caste survey shows the role of English-medium education in upper caste power and wealth control. Representational image. Image Courtesy: PICRYL The Telangana Socio, Economic Education, Employment, Political and Caste (SEEEPC) survey report has shown the real picture of the role of English-medium education … Continue reading Does English-Medium Education Hold Key to Power & Wealth?

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 27 Apr 2026 Read in Hindi END THE CASTE RULE, SHRINATHE It is socially and spiritually immoral to practise caste in everyday life in one form or another and deny it in the state enumeration. Image: iStock State's caste survey had 12 lakh people identifying as 'no caste', mostly upper-caste professionals in … Continue reading Telangana’s ‘No Caste’ surge signals privilege hiding in plain sight

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd This essay, “Savarkar Against US,” is written in the context of the RSS/BJP Government of India starting to take several steps to change the basic structure of the present political system in the light of the Hindutva thesis proposed by their father of the modern nation, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The idea “US” … Continue reading Savarkar Against US: RSS/BJP’s Removal of Gandhi is only to Bring in Savarkar as Father of the Nation

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd  If caste and gender-based indignity of labour and the idea of ‘pollution’ of women's bodies around menstruation and childbirth does not change, India will not progress. Image Courtesy: Flickr Children’s upbringing in India faces two distinct challenges. One how to upbring girls and boys as equals. Second, how to upbring them with a … Continue reading Dignity of Labour: Notions of Purity and Pollution in India