Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

CM Jagan Mohan Reddy has made sure that students are taught in the English medium at all levels, from anganwadi to university. That is a quantum jump in India’s educational language policy.

The RSS mode of targeting Muslims as the permanent enemy, and Owaisi’s attempts to organise Muslims electorally, may lead to a national disorientation and gradual disaster.

If he takes up a moral political route, vows to end dynasty rule in Congress and accommodates ambitious regional leaders, Rahul Gandhi and his party have a fighting chance.

A Dalit woman’s body and sexuality are of no worth. A Dalit woman is treated as Dalit by the state, even after rape and murder.

A Dalit insider’s experiment with touchables

By elevating D Raja to the post of general secretary, CPI makes history.

A section of the OBCs who were outside the fold of the BJP, voted for the party in 2014. But within a short time, the forces that matter in the RSS/BJP started opposing OBC reservation. The PM did not object even once to their negation of OBC reservation.

BJP slogan gets it so wrong. No self-respecting chowkidar would like to be in that job in India

India’s right wing is quick to condemn Talibani patriarchy. But they outrage over the calling out of Brahminical patriarchy

My work reflects the lived realities of marginalised communities. A methodology that depends on secondary data cannot do justice to first-hand knowledge

A politics based on democratic welfarism could offer a political alternative. The Bahujan Left Front in Telangana comprising communists and Ambedkarites may show the way.

Apex court verdict will make the SC/ST Atrocities Act toothless, roll back social transformation

In Hinduism, the right to spiritual equality is restricted. In glossing over the fact in his new book, Shashi Tharoor is playing into the hands of the proponents of Hindutva 

In her debut book, Sujatha Gidla tells the story of her uncle, KG Satyamurthy, co-founder of People’s War Group, and the struggle of a poverty-stricken Dalit family as they negotiated caste

Their silence on questions of caste could make them complicit in oppression of Dalit-Bahujan

Western tensions about migration show deep anxiety about core beliefs, including democracy

The Congress’s Brahmin mobilisation in Uttar Pradesh is a retrograde turn in its politics.

In the present mood, one can go to the TV debate, even critique Narendra Modi but not gau mata. If one does that, he/she may come out with his/her skin peeled.

Why Subramanian Swamy’s real target is not Raghuram Rajan or Arvind Subramanian.