In this extract from ‘Rebels with a cause: Famous dissenters and why they are not being heard,’ TT Ram Mohan explores anti-caste activist Kancha Ilaiah’s formative years. KANCHA ILAIAH/ FACEBOOKNEWS BOOK EXCERPT  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 - 10:52TT Ram Mohan Ilaiah is one of the foremost intellectuals of the Sudra caste, traditionally regarded as the lowest of … Continue reading How anti-caste activist Kancha Ilaiah’s mother was an inspiration for his rebellion

An earth shaking book  When I was reading Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, even before completing the book I realised that a Black sister had come to our older house of 3,500 years from an old house of 400 years.She told us that you have to pull it down and build a new … Continue reading A Black Sister Came, Saw the Older House and Told Us to Pull it Down

Till the end of the 14th century, English was primarily a farmer’s language in England, unlike Telugu, which evolved in the opposite direction. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD31 August, 2020 9:36 am ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/mirror-image-textbooks-in-andhra-will-make-students-realise-english-is-easier-than-telugu/491729/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 The Andhra Pradesh government has come out with a revolutionary education plan for students from Class I to VI. It has decided to publish … Continue reading ‘Mirror image’ textbooks in Andhra will make students realise English is easier than Telugu

in India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Share: WhatsAppFacebookTwitterTelegramRedditEmail What is known as Devulapally Venkateswar Rao (DVR) defenders team, attacked my recent article on Usaa Barber. One of their objects was to assert that DVR, a vegetarian conservative Brahmin, who pretended to be a revolutionary is intellectually superior to the Shudra communist intellectual Tarimela Nagi (TN) Reddy. I take this … Continue reading Can Brahmins Bring Revolution: An Assessment Through The Prism Of Tarimela Nagi Reddy | Countercurrents