When serious intellectuals emerge from the organic social base of the productive communities like Shudras, Dalits and Adivasis, their own caste location begins to determine their consciousness irrespective of whether they come from the Hindutva school or the Communist school, writes Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.forwardpress.in/2022/10/it-took-shantishree-dhulipudi-pandit-an-obc-woman-scholar-to-study-caste-of-hindu-gods/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd October 13, 2022 Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit has come … Continue reading It took Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit, an OBC woman scholar, to study caste of Hindu gods – Forward Press

October 5th is International Teachers Day. It is also Indian English Day. English language education has a history of 205 years in India. Incidentally October 5th is also my 70th birthday. My thirty years campaign for English medium education for poor children in the Government schools has come to a meaningful stage. William Carey and … Continue reading English India In The Making

October 5th is International Teachers Day. It is also Indian English Day. English language education has a history of 205 years in India. Incidentally October 5th is also my 70th birthday. My thirty years campaign for English medium education for poor children in the Government schools has come to a meaningful stage. William Carey and … Continue reading English India In The Making

Indian democracy and Ambedkar have almost became synonymous. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Yesterday · 09:00 am Prakash Singh/AFP In recent weeks, there has been a demand for the new Parliament building being constructed on the revamped Central Vista in New Delhi to be named after the architect of the Constitution and anti-caste leader BR Ambedkar. On … Continue reading Why naming the new Parliament building after BR Ambedkar would be a true step towards decolonisation