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

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Recently, a new organisation is said to have been formed by three powerful Muslim countries to safeguard their interests in West Asia. According to both global and Indian media reports, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey formed an alliance. This alliance has been described by the media as the "Islamic NATO". Though Turkey … Continue reading With arrival of ‘Islamic NATO’, BJP-RSS must rethink religious nationalism

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd From Nehru to Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh, no Prime Minister has attended a Christmas prayer meeting, singing carols, but Modi did, that too amid RW attacks on Christians. Representational Image. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons Miracles in Christianity are deeply believed and also globally contested beliefs. In my lifetime, I saw a strange … Continue reading A Miracle on This Christmas Day!

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd The upper caste and the rich can continue to learn English in expensive private institutions, it is the Bahujans who will suffer. Representative image of BJP flags. Photo: Facebook/BJP4India The Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have opened another front of attack on the future of the Dalit/Shudra/Adivasis. … Continue reading When RSS-Modi Attack Macaulay and English, They Attack Upward Mobility of Dalits, Shudras, Adivasis