Which army is currently protecting India’s borders — the vegetarian RSS army or the multi-cuisine, multicultural Indian army? And who can do a better job? KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD India has two armies, as I see it. One, the regular force which protects the country’s borders and pitches in when there is a natural disaster or … Continue reading RSS’ vegetarian army, in times of conflict with Pakistan and China

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd— March 5, 2019 The young man standing in bush shirt Next to Hyderabad, Warangal is the second biggest city of the Telangana state. Most of the present Telangana state’s heritage symbols, Kakatiya Gate, and its tank based irrigation system go back to the history of Warangal, which, in the medieval and … Continue reading First Dalit Collector Who Changed A Feudal District In The 1970s

Kancha Ilaiah Sheperd’s memoirs is riveting and takes us into truly uncharted territories that has been traversed by the versatile scholar. The book is unputdownable Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Brahminic learning was practising letter and number writing, whereas our learning was practical and theoretical simultaneously. It was a school of life generation, combined with medicinal value. … Continue reading Book extract: From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual

The scholar has penned a poem and has made an appeal to sing it as a prayer in schools By Basant Kumar Mohanty in New Delhi, The Telegraph Dalit-Bahujan scholar Kancha Ilaiah, author of Why I am not a Hindu, has added Shepherd to his name to assert the dignity of his parental profession. In … Continue reading Kancha Ilaiah wants schoolchildren to sing the song of equality