Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd CMC Vellore was established as a nursing and delivery clinic by an American missionary woman, Dr Ida Sophia Scudder.It has grown into a major world-class medical institution in India. Image: Wikimedia Commons Had a Hindutva organ ruled India after Independence and closed down CMC, Kattaiah would have died young; he broke superstition … Continue reading Why doesn’t RSS have a medical institution like CMC? Learnings from Kancha Kattaiah

by Bheenaveni Ram Shepherd In a record-setting case, an Indian patient lived 46 years after receiving a first-generation Edwards-Starr heart valve at CMCH in Vellore in 1979. His survival defied medical expectations — a powerful testament to how science, institutional motivation, and family care can together extend human longevity. In a world still reckoning with the … Continue reading A Rational Heart: How Reason and Care Sustained One of India’s Longest Heart Valve Survivors

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd After having a discussion with Delhi University students on 27 May, 2025 the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, in a social media post, said that a practice of “not found suitable” was being followed in case of vacancies on SC/ST and OBC seats and called it a new … Continue reading Anti-Not Found Suitable Movement: Rahul Gandhi Enters The Fight

Kancha llaiah Shepherd Caste is a mystical psychological category. It makes people crazy when entitlements are assigned on the basis of its oppressive history. It makes a progressive a reactionary when the oppressed caste's shade reaches the comfort zone of the oppressor castes | Representative image: iStock While Rahul Gandhi went against the understanding of … Continue reading Caste census a huge step against RSS tradition; will Sangh agree to it?