Jaitley has become to Narendra Modi what Manmohan Singh was once to PV Narasimha Rao. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Daily O ShareArun Jaitley, while recuperating from his kidney ailment, did his best to defend his government on economic and legal issues. By virtue of being the Union finance minister, he became BJP’s top economist. Going by … Continue reading The Arthashastra of Arun Jaitley – Decoding the top BJP leader’s school of political philosophy
Great Harappa of south India? How the Koya tribal museum is shattering ‘Brahmins are supreme’ myth
Kamaram has paved an exemplary path for cultural revolution in India. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Source Daily O In the first week of June (3rd to 5th), a revolution was initiated by Telangana’s Koya tibals with great futuristic vision in a deeply indigenous village called Kamaram (this is also known as Koyatoor) near Tadvai in Bhoopalpally … Continue reading Great Harappa of south India? How the Koya tribal museum is shattering ‘Brahmins are supreme’ myth
RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system
The Sarsanghchalak's handbook is not Ambedkar’s Constitution, but Arthashastra. By Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Source Daily O Kautilya lived in India and wrote his treatise Arthashastra in the third century BC. Niccolò Machiavelli lived in 16th century AD in Italy and wrote his book The Prince. Arthashastra, though an economic title, is actually about statecraft, with a preamble … Continue reading RSS the Kautilya, unlike Congress, will abolish India’s election system
Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/political-hinduism-shashi-tharoor At the outset of Why I Am a Hindu, the politician and writer Shashi Tharoor—a member of the Nair castes, and so a Shudra—writes that the book is in large part a response to the “intolerant and often violent forms of Hindutva that began to impose themselves on the public … Continue reading Swami Shashi The political Hinduism of Shashi Tharoor
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