Watch: April's Firstpost Book Club | In conversation with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Omprakash Mahato
3 years, 7 months ago

Watch: April's Firstpost Book Club | In conversation with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Omprakash Mahato

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The Firstpost Book Club read Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy’s The Shudras: Vision for a New Path in April. The Firstpost Book Club read The Shudras: Vision for a New Path in April. Edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy, The Shudras is a collection of essays that delves into the multi-layered predicaments faced by India’s productive castes in the spiritual, social, economic and political spaces. Watch Shepherd and writer Omprakash Mahato discuss the book with independent writer and filmmaker Jyoti Nisha, and elaborate on why the emancipation and progress of the productive castes are vital to sustain Ambedkar’s constitutional democracy.

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New ways to imagine and resist | Meena Kandasamy picks four path-breaking books
1 year, 8 months ago

New ways to imagine and resist | Meena Kandasamy picks four path-breaking books

The Hindu  

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A new pole in Indian politics
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A new pole in Indian politics

Hindustan Times  

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G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy
3 years, 8 months ago

G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy

The Hindu  

The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karupusamy, political theorists and the editors of The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, seem to think so. From a Shudra perspective, the suggestion that they should support one Brahminical national party instead of another Brahminical national party because the former is ‘secular’ …

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