In India, the road towards primitive controls on the thinking mind is being cemented further with each passing day, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. PTI FEATURES OPINION FRIDAY, JANUARY 06, 2023 - 18:06 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Ever since the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) backed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the Union government in 2014 and subsequently came to … Continue reading Opinion: RSS-BJP kill scientific thought by branding it as anti-national | The News Minute

Since caste was around before Islam arrived, how did Muslim clerics, scholars and rulers view it? After Islam came to India, the only writer who discussed the caste question was Alberuni in the 11th century Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The dais at BJP's Pasmanda Conference in Lucknow on October 16, 2022. Photo: By arrangement. Last month, … Continue reading Why Didn’t India’s Muslim Rulers and Thinkers Confront the Inequities of the Caste System?

BY KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD DECEMBER 31, 2022 Under the pretext of ‘saving the mother tongue,’ these NRIs are opposing English medium government schools — where Dalits and other marginalized groups get an education — even as they and their relatives in India provide their children with the best English education available. That’s hypocrisy. “Kuvempu took the … Continue reading Why Some Telugu Groups in America are Opposed to Providing English Education to the Poor in Andhra? – American Kahani

Communist leaders preach and practise exactly what the Sangh Parivar leaders do — English medium for the netas and regional language education for the masses Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd 6:30 AM, 27 December, 2022 State governments should take steps to shift all government schools to English medium. Image: iStock Rahul Gandhi’s stand on English medium education … Continue reading Not just BJP, Left has also kept masses away from English education – The Federal