Futile surname change from Chandala to Namasudra

Any muddle-headed debate on social reforms like surname-shedding or not using any caste and clan-connoting names has been an age-old disease of the social clerics. Leave apart epic authors, even M.K. Gandhi renamed the Scheduled Castes as Harijan so that the odium of caste stigma became further radicalised. Gandhi never uttered a word about the need of abolition of caste system — which till date remains the basic causation of social depredation and national vivisection.

Even the British Census Commissioner had to entertain scores of petitions from the indigenous for changing their present occupational names and traditional names, which gathered derogatory moss by usage in caste-contaminated parlance.

CHANDI WORSHIPPERS CALLED CHANDALAS

The worshippers of Chandi, the Chandalas, also by this process shed traditional racial name and were voluntarily advised to have the name of Namasudra in the caste menu. Little did they know then that the name Namasudra contained caste appellation of social slavery. No other oppressed caste surrendered so abjectly to Aryan social slavery as did the Namasudras in the process. This was the result of an intellectual fraud which had advised Guruchand Thakur in this behalf.

This self-slandering process must stop. Enlightenment is absolutely necessary to be focused on the preconditions of caste slavery like lack of equitable and universal education, health care, removal of social exploitations. That itself can bring about a new age of qualitative social living. Such an emerging society need not bloch over name and surnames. Who does not know that by whichever name you call rose — rose is a rose. Every man is a self-evident corporate self. Even toads have a Latin name, but no religion to distort their mood.

SURNAME CHANGE WON'T CHANGE STATUS

Caste pogrom continues unabated despite ineffectual reform efforts. Valuable time has been wasted to only dogmatise the hate syndrome of caste. Slum-dwelling and BPL have become a way of life. With caste-soaked and subsoiled ground conditions, all such reform remedies are bound to prove futile. In fact, even after prohibition of the slang Harijan, the upper castes call them by this very name —not once but three times over. No opportunity of slandering is spared. Even crows and vultures are called Harijan birds with a motive.

After observing the incidence of caste fall-outs in all conceivable spheres during the last 58 years of democratic social experiment, any measure short of abolition of caste would be a monstrous social deception. If developing countries all over the world could do much better without caste, why the Hindu religious leaders shy away from drawing any lesson from them?

The exercise of surname-dropping is imminently and essentially an expression of frustration in addressing the real problem of caste. For everyone knows if caste is removed, Hinduism would be dead which the beneficiaries of Hindu cannot afford.

Surname, in as much as name, is not a patented belonging of any caste excepting that it may reflect the family genealogy, occupational legacy or clan name of some caste-based data is also maintained for the safeguard of Dalit interest. Like proper names, shuffling of surname over diverse caste groups is often noticed. There is indeed no law to stop name and surname-shuffling which is not strictly poaching. Keeping up with this trend would be much better than totally dropping surnames. Such trends would have mopped up artificial social differences. In modern society surname is not only cultural offshoot. In several cases, wife continues to retain maiden surnames along with husband's. They may belong to different caste though. It is thus tending to be an optional suffixing already which transcends caste. These things happen only when there is better education and economic well-being to neutralize the effect of caste radicalism.

ABOLISH CASTE SYSTEM NOT SURNAME

Naming has always been a symptomatic culture of preaching hero-worship. For that reason, there is no bar to use any high-sounding name or surname. The local rulers also appropriated the designation of Rajput. Some pujaris call themselves Sharma and so on.

Many have dropped their surnames voluntarily. What big purpose would it then serve to impose a caustic ban on use of surnames? Whereas, in all fitness of things a ban should have been imposed on caste itself long back. Surname-banning at the most may serve fanning fresh caste animosities.

Surname or not, so long caste is retained one has 100 ways open to advertise and communicate about one's caste or social status in terms of caste and wealth even. The matrimonial ads without surnames serve the same very purpose even today. The neo-Muslim and neo-Christian have their own problem. They have elaborate names and surnames, reflecting their class group, not caste. But in the caste subsoil, practice antedates caste stigma. But how could one address their problem even if surname is to be dropped from their Islamic name/surname.

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Gandhi, a fascist ?

In Europe, it is now known that M.K. Gandhi, called a "man of peace", was actually a nazi and a fascist. The two websites below of the Guardian of England and the truth-telling India's Dalit Voice, which is currently under the editorship of a very dedicated academic and committed Dalit, provide the details of Gandhi's fascism.

In India, the Untouchables (Dalits) do not call themselves Hindu any more. They now call themselves as a different ethnic identity. We wish our Dalit brothers in fascist India every success in their mission of gaining liberation from the Hindu/Gandhi terrorism which the upper caste barbaric Hindus are practising against the oppressed Dalits with impunity.

We call upon the Director of Gandhi Institute in USA (650-East Parkway South, Memphis, Tennesee -38104, USA) to change its name to a new and a better one as "Gandhi Institute of Fascism" which will be more reflective of Gandhi fascism persistently practised by M.K. Gandhi against the Dalit-Bahujans, Muslims, Sikhs and the others in India.

I read (DV Dec.1, 2005) a report on Gandhi's conspiracy against the separate electorate. If the Dalits had separate electorate 50 years ago, they would have got freedom from the Hindu nazis today but it could not happen because of the evil conspiracy of Gandhi. Our campaign against Gandhi is continuing and we are sending our message to the entire world.

www.gandhiinstitute.org
www.guardian.co.uk/southafrica/story/0,13262,1065018,00.html
www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/oct_a2005/articles.htm
(muslim_bahujan_sikh_unity@yahoo.com)

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Zionists promoting "Holocaust lies"

The UN General Assembly has voted to designate Jan.27 as international Holocaust Remembrance Day. The UN resolution to commemorate Jews who lost their lives in Europe during the World War-II was introduced by Israel and approved on Nov.1 by most UN member states. What's behind this resolution and the Holocaust remembrance effort? Whose interests does it serve? It is, of course, fitting and proper to remember all victims of war and genocide.

But Holocaust remembrance is not, as its supporters claim, a noble effort motivated by sincere concern for humanity. It is, rather, a one-sided campaign designed to further zionist interests. Since the last 1970s, remembrance of the Holocaust, usually defined as the genocidal killing of 6 million Jews in Europe during the World War-II, has grown tremendously. This media and political campaign, which Jewish historian Alfred Lilienthal calls "Holocaustomania", includes a relentless stream of propagandistic motion pictures, TV specials, books, education courses, museums and commemorative events. In many American and European schools, as in all Israeli schools, a focus on the wartime suffering of Europe's Jews is an obligatory part of the curriculum. A number of countries, including Britain, Germany, Italy officially observe Holocaust Remembrance Day.

There are more than 250 Holocaust museums and memorials worldwide, most of them in the USA and Europe. The largest is the official US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, which draws some 2 million visitors yearly. (weber@ihr.org)

DV Nov.16, 2005 p.5: "Lies on Hitler".

DV Nov.1, 2005 p.22: "Germans refuse to believe zionist lies on Hitler".

DV Oct.1, 2005 p.22: "Break zionist grip on America".

DV Aug.16, 2005 p.10: "Hitler saved Germany from economic disaster".

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Testing drugs on India's poor

India has been the focus on medical research since the time when sunburned men with pith helmets and degrees from prestigious European medical schools came to catalog tropical illness. http:/www.truthout.org/issues_05/123005HA.shtml

The days of the Raj are long gone, but multinational corporations are riding high on the trend toward globalization by taking advantage of India's educated work force and deep poverty to turn South Asia into the world's largest clinical-testing Petri dish. The sudden influx of drug companies to India resembles the gold rush frontier, according to Sean Philpott, managing editor of The American Journal of Bioethics. "Not only are research costs low, but there is a skilled work force to conduct the trials", he said. In the rush to reap profits, Philpott cautions that drug companies may not be sensitive to how poverty can undermine the spirit of informed consent.

"Individuals who participate in Indian clinical trials usually won't be educated. Offering $100 maybe undue enticement; they may not even realize that they are being coerced", he said.

For decades, pharmaceutical research in India didn't rely on clinical testing. Scientists mostly reverse-engineered drugs already developed in other countries. But in March 2005 everything changed when India submitted to pressure from the World Trade Organization to stop the practice and implement rules that prohibit local companies from creating generic versions of patented drugs. Now, pharmaceutical companies can rest assured they won't lose profits to a domestic market, and India is suddenly a profitable location for performing the expensive tests required for Food and Drug Administration clearance of any drug. Though it is still too soon to tell how much the legislative change has boosted drug development, observers say the number of studies conducted by multinational drug companies has sharply increased since March.

Given the rising cost of drug research in the US and Europe, more and more drug companies are conducting clinical trials in developing countries where government oversight is more lax and research can be done for a fraction of the cost. According to a 2004 study by Rabo India Finance, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Robo Bank, clinical trials account for more than 40% of drug-development costs. The study also found that performing the studies in India can bring the price down by about 60%.

By 2010, total spending on outsourcing clinical trials to India could top $2 billion, according to Ashish Singh, vice president of Bain & Co.,a consulting firm that reports on the healthcare industry.

Regardless of where clinical trials are performed, the FDA requires the same evidence showing that a drug is safe and effective before it will approve any drug, according to a written comment from Ken Johnson, senior vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation. And it's the responsibility of the institutional review boards at the medical institutions where the studies take place to "actively pursue issues of informed consent", according to another written comment from Jeff Trewhitt, a spokesman for the pharmaceutical industry trade group.

Nevertheless, even before the anti-generic rules were enacted, companies performing clinical trials in India saw their share of problems.

In 2004, two India-based pharmaceutical companies, Shantha Biotech in Hyderabad and Biocon in Bangalore, came under scrutiny for conducting illegal clinical trials that led to eight deaths. Shantha Biotech failed to obtain proper consent from patients while testing a drug meant to treat heart attacks. Biocon tested a genetically modified form of insulin without the proper approval from the Drug Controller General of India or the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee.

In another incident, Sun Pharmaceuticals convinced doctors to prescribe Letrozole, a breast cancer drug to over 400 women as a fertility treatment in a covert clinical trial and used the results to promote the drug for the unapproved use.

Shantha Biotech, Biocon and Sun Pharmaceuticals did not return e-mails seeking comments for this story.

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LINDA LEE OSBORNE, 1111-GREENHAVEN DRIVE, ATLANTA - 30317, USA

The above arguement supports DV article of Jan.1, 2006 p.8: "Fear over Bill Gates sudden love for slaves of India". We must resist by all means becoming the guinea pigs of the racist power struggle. This type of testing goes on here in the US and has been since America's inception via European domination. Now many acts are disguised but Black populations are still being targeted for annihilation in a variety of evil ways. (lyndalee@netscape.com)

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Heart surgeon makes history

Thanks for publishing my article, "Glorious fall of a Dalit surgeon" (DV Nov.16, 2005 p.19). In response to that there were phone calls, letters. Some were sympathetic. Many wrote encouraging words. Some eulogized my work. One fellow was ready with all help, he wanted me to come to Ireland. I want to express my thanks to my Dalit fraternity. Brother Punitha Pandiyan of Dalit Murasu, Madras, was so much moved that he translated that article and published in his Tamil journal. Creative writing is a difficult job and especially so when one is writing the truth. One has to pay a very heavy price. Sacrifice is a noble virtue. Dalit community as of today needs it more as it has never needed before. When the Dalits had nothing to lose, the sacrifices they made were a common thing. Today, when they have something to hold on, people making sacrifices have become a rare commodity, almost extinct. I am sending an article "What made me a writer?" for publication.

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Dalits & BCs suffer under Brahminical dictatorship in IIT - Madras

Under the Institute of Technology Act 1961 ("Act 59 of 1961") passed by Parliament, six institutes were declared as "Institutes of National Importance". One such institute is the IIT Madras. Every year these institutes receive Rs. 1,000 crore from the Govt. of India (HRD).

The IIT Madras is situated on a 300-acre campus in the heart of Madras for which the credit goes to Chief Minister Kamaraj. Despite the IIT being located in Tamil Nadu, the representation of Tamils here is minimum.

BRHAMIN MONOPOLY

It has become one of the foremost Brahmin bastions all over the world in the field of academics. In the past four decades of its existence the Brahmins who occupy all the decision-making positions have dominated it. In all these years of existence, the Institute has not had a single Dalit or Backward Caste director.

In the past decade, large-scale financial irregularities and mishandling of public funds have attracted the adverse notice of the public and the media. The arbitrary selections and appointments made to the post of faculty members have been challenged under several writ petitions. In fact, within this short period of 10 years over 200 cases have been filed against it.

Human rights violation:

Though the Constitution guarantees reservation (human rights) for the OBCs and Dalits in matters of education and employment, this policy is not followed here either at the level of student admission or faculty selection.

Faculty appointments:

Out of the total faculty strength of 450, only two are Dalits despite the constitutional mandate that 22.5% of all positions must be reserved for the Dalits. Hardly 50 faculty members are BCs.

The rest of the faculty are upper castes, most of them Brahmins.

Writ petitions on reservation in faculty pending before the court are:

(1) W.P.No. 5415/95 filed by IIT BC Employees Welfare Association; (2) W.P.No.16528/95 filed by the Vanniar Mahasangam; (3) W.P. No. 16863/95; (4) W.P.No. 17403/95; (5) W.P. No. 4242/97 filed by Dr. Muthuveerappan; (6) W.P. No. 4256/97 filed by Dr. W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy; (7) W.P. No. 4257/97 filed by Dr. W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy and (8) W.P.37020/2003.

To escape the constitutional mandate, it has cunningly followed the "contract" system hiring faculty members on "ad hoc" basis. Faculty members from the upper castes are eventually made permanent.

To escape legal problem advertisement is published. All the advertisements will not stand up to review. Because all material particulars will be clearly absent: number of vacancies, number of positions reserved etc.

Student admissions:

As in faculty positions reservation policy is not followed in student admissions. It was only in 1978 it first thought of reservation to Dalit students. But this 22.5% quota is not completely filled up. Instead the eye-wash of using lower cut-off marks is said to be followed. Besides, in a gross violation of the fundamental right to equality, Dalit students who gain admission to B.Tech are made to undergo a one-year preparatory course before being admitted to B.Tech.

No reservation exists in the IITs for Backward students. There is also no relaxation of criteria. In the name of merit, the legitimate rights of the deprived castes are denied. In September 2005, a writ petition was filed in the Madras high Court seeking 27% reservation in IITs for OBC students.

IRREGULARITIES DURING NVC SWAMY PERIOD

Occupying office illegally:

The Director of the Institute during the year 1995 was Dr. N.V.C. Swamy. He retired in April 1995 but continued in the post till June 30, 1996 under the pretext that his appointment had been extended. He had by then attained superannuation and was well over 60 years. The appointment of the Director of the IIT requires the prior approval of the President of India who is the Visitor of all IITs. Without the presidential approval, the then Education Secretary of the HRD Ministry, S.V. Giri, sent a DO Letter No.12-17/95 TSI (Oct.31, 1995) giving an extension to N.V.C. Swamy for three months. The Faculty Association of the IIT filed a writ before the Madras High Court (W.P. No. 15486 of 1995). This writ petition was admitted and subsequently Swamy resigned.

Recruiting 80 faculties:

During his illegal term as the Director, Dr.N.V.C. Swamy hurriedly advertised and filled up faculty positions. Within three months he appointed over 80 upper castes to faculty positions. Reservation policy was thrown to basket.

NVC Swamy went to the extent of reissuing advertisements to ensure that his favourite candidates were selected. For instance, the advt. (No. IITM/R/8/94) for the post of Associate Professor, Maths Dept., was clearly given "the candidate should have a basic degree in Maths". If this criteria had been strictly followed an upper caste man would not have been selected.

So to select their favourite, Dr. S.G. Kamath, who had a B.Sc. degree in physics, to the post of Associate Professor, they changed the very selection criteria. For this, they issued a re-advertisement No. IITM/R/1/95 relaxing some of the previous criteria and taking out this necessity for basic degree in maths itself. Though the advt. invites applications only from those who hold first class degrees, a second-class degree holder, Dr. A. Rangan, was selected to the post of Associate Professor in Maths Dept. At the same time, though Dr. W.B. Vasantha was extremely meritorious she was not selected because she belonged to the OBC community.

Reservation policy not implemented:

According to the Board resolution no.11 of 1994 in the 145th meeting of the Board of Governors, it was resolved to implement the reservation policy as per the Ministry of Human Resources Letter (1/11/1993). Also, the Office Memorandum of the Dept. of Personnel & Training (13.01.1995) extends the reservation to BCs in civil posts and services to be filled by direct recruitment to bodies like the IIT.

In the faculty selections that were carried out during the five-year tenure of Dr. NVC Swamy the constitutional mandate of reservation was clearly missing because it was blatantly breached.

The IIT BC Employees Welfare Association headed by K.N. Jothi filed a writ (WP No. 5415/95) before the Madras High Court challenging the non-implementation of reservation. After the filing this writ petition, in all the appointment orders given to the posts of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, it was mentioned:

Please note that the High Court of Madras by its order dated 17.4.1995 in W.M.P. No. 8893 in W.P.No. 5415 of 1995 has made the following order: the offer of appointment is subject to the result of the writ petition.

The Vanniyar Sangam filed a writ (16528 of 1995) challenging the non-implementation of the reservation policy for the OBCs. Similarly W.P. No. 17403 of 1995 was also filed for a similar purpose.

FERA violations:

He undertook frequent foreign trips in the name of signing Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with universities abroad. During these trips, he never took clearance from the Ministry and the Reserve Bank. He also collected donations in dollars for corpus fund from the alumni of IIT who were living abroad. But he never deposited the amount in the IIT account. IIT sources said the amount collected ran into a few crores of rupees.

Illegal lease of institute property:

Dr. Swamy leased the Institute's sports stadium to a private company, Chemplast Sanmar, violating the IIT Act that says: that no part of the Institute premises can be leased or rented to anybody. The premises of the Institute can be used solely for the purpose of research and student activities. (Act, Chapter II 6(j) and 7(2).

Creating 197 categories of posts:

As the Director, he had created over 197 categories of workers which does not exist anywhere in the Act and statutes. The same sources said he gave illegal promotions to his favourite cadre.

R. NATARAJAN PERIOD (1996-2001)

1996 faculty recruitment drive:

As soon as Dr. R. Natarajan took over, he too issued an advt. for faculty positions. In these selections, those who were the favourites of the ex-Director, and those who protested in a signature campaign against the Faculty Association for filing a case were given promotions as if it was a reward.

The appointments and the advt. were unnecessary because only a year ago there had been an enormous selection process at the faculty level. This selection was also filled with all kinds of irregularities. No reservation was followed at all for the OBC/SC/ST.

Caste, not merit:

For the post of Professor, 98 were selected but some of them did not even have a single Ph.D. guidance, no PG project guidance and hardly half-a-dozen research papers. Merit and excellence were not taken into consideration, only caste played a prominent role. This selection was also challenged (W.P.No. 4257/97) by Dr. W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy as there was no reservation for BCs and it did not follow the Supreme Court order in the Indira Sawhney case (AIR 1993 SCC 477).

Dr. Muthuveerappan, an OBC faculty member of the Mechanical Engg. Dept., also challenged the faculty selection done in 1996 before the High Court (WP No. 4242/97).

Even in the list of those selected faculty, there was not a single Dalit. There would have been hardly half a dozen non-Brahmins.

Backdoor entry:

Ad hoc appointments are resorted to effectively deny entry of weaker sections into faculty positions. These ad hoc appointments are effected in the nature of selective reservation for persons who are connected to a coterie which is at the helm of affairs at the Institute.

During 1986-1997 it made over 180 ad hoc appointments to the faculty positions under 17 job titles. Nearly 80 of them have been made permanent subsequently.

After R. Natarajan took charge, between Nov.1995 till 1998, about 37 appointments had been made without recourse to the regular selection process. These appointments were made through the backdoor thereby shutting out open competition and genuine merit. The IIT Act does not allow such contract appointments.

In 1998, the Backward Class Employees Welfare Association represented by its Secretary, Prof. N.R. Neelakantan, filed a writ (W.P. No.3570 of 1998) challenging these ad hoc appointments.

Faculty recruitment drive:

In 1998, it issued an advt. (IITM/R/3/98 in the Hindu April 25, 1998) for the post of Asst. Prof. in the various departments flouting the constitutional provision of reservation for SC/ST/OBC.

This advt. was basically aimed at regularizing and making permanent those appointed illegally on the ad hoc basis. The BC Employees Welfare Assn. headed by Prof. N.R. Neelakantan filed a writ (W.P. No. 6313/98) before the High Court challenging this advt.

Dismissal of Natarajan demand:

Ex-MP, Era Anbarasu filed a quo warranto writ (W.P. No. 12128/98) before the High Court seeking the dismissal of Director, R. Natarajan.

Natarajan had fabricated his date of birth. According to the record, he joined first standard at the age of 3. Besides, instead of a proper meeting of the IIT council comprising 33 members, only three people had met and selected him. He was also accused of having plagiarized research matter which is pending before the High Court of Madras (W.P. No. 7775/97).

Employees Union strike:

Employees of the IIT staged a series of protests against Natarajan in 1999. The strike lasted for 120 days and T.R. Balu, Union Minister for Shipping, had addressed the employees.

The Director was furious that T.R. Balu asked him to come down from the fifth floor to meet the employees. The IIT comes under the parliamentary constituency of Balu.

Natarajan later took revenge by sacking the office-bearers, dismissing them from service, conducting inquiries and serving them show-cause notices. All this resulted in a series of writ petitions being filed in the High Court and several of them are pending even today causing extreme distress to the employees.

1999-2000 faculty recruitment drive:

Towards the end of his tenure in a hurry he wanted to promote all his favourites and henchmen. Hence an advt. (No. IITM/R/5/999) was issued on Nov.3, 1999 inviting applications to the posts of Asst. Prof, Associate Prof. and Professor. The selection was kept in abeyance for around a year.

The interviews were hastily held from Sept.11 to Sept.25, 2000 and the results were announced at 8 p.m. on Sept.25. The selected candidates joined the very next day. He arbitrarily recruited over 99 people, a great majority of them from the upper castes to fill up these positions. Not even a single Dalit was selected. Against this a writ (No. 17835/2000) was filed.

MISCHIEF DURING M.S. ANANTH PERIOD

Arbitrary selection of 130 new faculties:

Immediately after M.S. Ananth took over office in 2002 he issued an advt. calling for applications to the post of Asst. Prof. Those selected were Brahmins. However, he soon changed his tactics.

In a stealthy yet massive recruitment drive over 130 faculty members have been hastily appointed since 2003 without open advertisement or a regular selection process.

In a recent interview to rediff.com (www.rediff.com/money/2005/may/23iit.htm), Dr. Ananth said:

I have hired 130 faculty members in the last three years, of who 36 have B.Techs from various IITs who've done Ph.D. abroad and come back. But I have lost 90 by retirement and so I am running very fast to stay where I am.

This large-scale appointments reveals the undue haste, lowering of eligibility criteria, favouritism of recruiting alumni and absolute lack of transparency. Moreover, with a callous disregard to social justice and the constitutional mandate of reservation, not even half a dozen Dalits have been selected as a faculty member.

Shameful role:

To facilitate this hasty, biased selection process, the advt. on the Institute's website (http://www.iitm. ac.in/Faculty%20 Openings) says:

This is a standing advertisement. There is no specific requirement on when a candidate can submit an application. Applications will be accepted throughout the year. Candidates who meet the prescribed qualifications need not wait for any formal announcement of recruitment to submit an application.

The ambiguity is apparent because even the number of vacancies is not announced. To broad-base this arbitrary activity, applications to the entry-level position of Asst. Prof. is invited for all the 15 departments in the institute.

Norms and guidelines for selection are wilfully abandoned and unbridled power to select less meritorious candidates is given to the respective departments. The standing advertisement states, "the departments have the right to set different as well as higher norms, while shortlisting, taking into account the requirements of the departments". This paves way for a pathetic dilution of standards.

Today, even the universities stipulate five yeas of research and teaching experience after receiving the doctoral degree as the basic eligibility criteria for the entry-level lecturer positions. Yet, in a shameful role-reversal, IIT Madras stands stripped of its halo of high quality, the standing advt. relaxes the eligibility criteria and invites applications for the Asst. Prof. position from "candidates who expect to receive their Ph.D. within the next six months" adding that "their appointment to the post, if found suitable, will be subject to their receiving the degree".

Hush hush appointments:

Worse in the rediff.com interview, M.S. Ananth accepted that the IIT Madras has "adjunct faculty who don't even need a master's degree".

Faculty appointments have been bestowed with an infamous history, having been consistently challenged in judicial avenues for the past decade. Since then, it has shied away from open advertisements and opted for using the internet-based standing advt. which makes the entire exercise shrouded in secrecy. The regular selection process has been subverted by resorting to the tested technique of bulk back-door entries.

This is taking place because the Brahmins here are extremely averse to recruiting people from Dalits and BCs. By using "standing advertisements" they can overlook reservation and deny equal opportunity.

Now a fresh advt. has been issued in the press on Sept.26, 2005. It calls for applications to the posts of Professor and Associate Professor. No mention is made of the number of vacancies. Like all the previous times, only Brahmins and upper castes will be selected. No reservation policy will be followed.

Unless this is prevented all the vacancies shall be filled up and for decades no non-Brahmin can enter the institute.