
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Articles
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1 week ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Cynthia Stephen |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy
In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians have done: he critiques Indian culture and civilisation by applying a new methodology that onboards the historically marginalised Shudras, who constitute both India’s productive labour and its numerical majority, into the mainstream narrative.
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2 months ago |
countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman |Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Donald Trump’s distasteful State of the Disunion address urged salvation, anything to obtain relief from the madness. A lack of empathy and gruff manner displayed a chilling use of the anguish of parents of ravished children to promote the war on immigrants. Did the parents want to be there? Did they want their deceased children used for political opportunity? Naming public places after the children, as if the parents had won a prize, is unconscionable.
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2 months ago |
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad
The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president twice. One particular group that have become prominent are the aggrieved and estranged. Former employees who were given their marching orders after brief spells in Trump’s administration have made a career in podcasting and punditry on the man whose bilious orbit they seemingly cannot escape.
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2 months ago |
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra
One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally, it is a model of a modern progressive society in which today’s world demands literate, educated and well-informed citizens and workers. That very notion of a free education is truly one envied by parents and children around the world.
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2 months ago |
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Juan Cole
As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC for over 45 years I am acutely aware of the traumas and anxieties that are encountered because of changing political administrations nationally, regionally, and locally, and how they impact families and lives.
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