Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s first foray into fiction is a courageous declaration that the oppressed, too, have the right to imagine, narrate and reclaim their own civilizational inheritance, writes Satya Sagar Satya Sagar August 24, 2026 Few Indian public intellectuals have challenged the ideological foundations of Indian history and society as relentlessly as Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. For … Continue reading Review: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s ‘Harappa: God’s City of Civilisation’

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s new book portrays the Indus Valley Civilization as cooperative and egalitarian—and challenges nationalist myths about India’s origins. STAN COX AUG 19, 2026 Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd has a way of getting under Hindu supremacists’ skin. And the latest book by this political theorist, social activist, and former Osmania University professor—titled Harappa: God’s City of … Continue reading Harappa: Now That Was a Civilization! 

Dear Sir, I read your book in the early 2000s, and I believe it was a Malayalam translation. Coming from a Christian family, it was the first time I encountered the reality of caste in such a direct and powerful way. It opened my eyes to a world I had not understood before, and it … Continue reading 30 Years of “Why I Am Not a Hindu”: A Tribute to Kancha Ilaiah’s Transformative Legacy – Binu Matthew

in Book Review, Editor's Picks by Binu Mathew This is the Foreword to Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s new book “Harappa: God’s City of Civilisation“ “Harappa: God’s City of Civilisation” is much more than a novel. It is an act of historical imagination, civilisational recovery, and ethical resistance. In a time when competing political and ideological forces seek to erase, … Continue reading Reclaiming Harappa: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s Civilisational Imagination of Equality, Ecology and Human Dignity