in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd —June 22, 2020FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmailShare59 A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Domkhera village in Amroha district at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was shaking the whole world. He was shot dead allegedly by youths from an upper caste community for visiting a temple in … Continue reading Why Dalit Lives Do Not Matter?

India is yet to see a movement against caste on the scale of Black Lives Matter, even though both racial and caste discrimination share the notion of inferior and superior. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD21 June, 2020 10:42 am ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/black-lives-matter-india-anti-caste-movement-fight-villain-manu/445727/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Members of Dalit community display a portrait of Bhim Rao Ambedkar during 'Bharat Bandh' in New Delhi … Continue reading Black Lives Matter must fire up India’s anti-caste movement to fight its central villain

The irony is that at a time when globalisation is dying, the emphasis is not on statisation. The idea behind the stimulus package is to shore up the time-honoured parampara of varnadharma economy and also wealth distribution. Photo: Arun Geetha Viswanathan/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA) Kancha Ilaiah ShepherdPolitical EconomyPolitics16 hours ago The programmes initiated by Franklin D. … Continue reading The Old Deal: BJP’s Answer to COVID-19 Is More Privatisation

KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD | 27 MAY, 2020 Post-Covid Privatisation Will Push Labour Into a Deathtrap Craving for more money at the expense of dying labour  Metaphorically the heart (hruday) represents human goodwill and helping nature toward the helpless and needy, whereas atma (soul) represents the non physical self which is disconnected from physical suffering. One can … Continue reading Post-Covid Privatisation Will Push Labour Into a Deathtrap