Communication question of survival against brahminical typhoon
Dalit Voice declared India's best Dalit-Bahujan media
Gurnam Singh Muktsar, 2- Bhagat Singh Nagar, B/h Bus Stand, Muktsar - 152 026

I have received two letters from Brother S. Singha Chaudhari, Hawrah, and Gopal Chandra Biswas, Calcutta, on our proposal for a "Media Center". Both were published in DV Aug.1, 2004.
I want a powerful Dalit media to reach all Dalit-Bahujans at least in Hindi and English languages to begin with. I have my own Punjabi magazine but its circulation could not cross 1,000 copies in six years. My paper became very popular but it could not gain circulation.
I want to fully support the English DV because I know the importance of English at the national and international level. I am not interested in profits but I am a man of mission committed to socio-cultural revolution.

D.V. Does not belong to V.T. Rajshkear
If DV is capable of bringing about such a revolution, I will sacrifice every thing for that.
I am warning my Dalit-Bahujans: If we lose DV today, for many more years we will be deprived of the great socio-cultural revolutionary thoughts being propounded in DV. Dalit Voice is a magazine of national and international importance. Our efforts are not to promote V.T. Rajshekar as an individual but a person of extraordinary thought who has devoted 25 long years for socio-cultural movement against the BSO. Such persons are rarely born. We have to commend him for giving us a strong media.

DV does not belong to V.T. Rajshekar now. It is the Bahujan property. It is our property. If he gets fed up, leaves this struggle and DV is stopped who will lose? V.T. Rajshekar or the Bahujans? No doubt, the Bahujans are perpetually in loss since centuries. If we allow DV also to die, our situation,our slavery and exploitation will further intensify. No one will give any ear to our cries. But through DV our cry will reach the top of the world.

There are thousands of Dalit- Backward and other oppressed intellectuals who possess similar revolutionary thoughts. But they can't write like our Editor. If DV closes down, who will give voice to the hundreds and thousands of those crying?

Hence it is our duty to strengthen DV and make it a first class paper.
I know some Dalit-Backwards and minority people who own large properties and earn good money. They have good houses. They spend on luxuries and on their children. But all these people do not worry about their own brothers in hell. Our employees in good official positions rarely bother about the welfare of their exploited and oppressed brothers.

Question of survival
In such a situation, we cannot expect a "Media Centre" of our own. Culturally deprived people cannot set up a "Media Centre". I am aware of the shortcomings of our people. Still we have decided to strengthen DV.

Media is the question of our survival. If we have to survive under this Brahminical poisonous atmosphere, DV is a must.

At the Shimla workshop, DV readers, participants from seven states, unanimously accepted the idea of Bharti Dalit Chitan Sahitya Sangh and everybody accepted V.T. Rajshekar as its life-time national president.

It was made clear that in first phase we shall have to make at least 500 life-members of DV who will be also the permanent members of general body of the Sangh. They will have to donate Rs. 3,000 as membership either directly or by instalments.

If we prepare a second-line membership of Rs. 1,000 for five years and third line membership of Rs. 500 for 2 1/2 years it will help us to gain large number.

Then we shall start a campaign for individual subscriptions and within two years if we succeed in doubling the circulation of DV, we shall jump to the second phase.
Media Centre objective

For that we all have to make joint efforts at the national and international level. I want all our DV family members to enlist more DV subscribers to cross the first phase to the second one.

In Himachal, our senior members have started their drive. Brother Kataria from Rohtak has informed about his campaign. T.R. Azad from Jammu has also written about promoting new membership.

I think this article of mine will clear the first object of the "Media Centre". The second object is expected to be decided in Delhi (2005) where we expect our intellectuals. This function in Delhi will be conducted by the Bharti Dalit Chintan Sahitya Sangh comprising a national body from SC/ST/BC and Sikh, Muslim, Budhist and Christian members of high calibre.

This is a socio-cultural revolution. It is a matter of sacrifice for a great human cause. This means giving something out of our life-long earnings towards an honest ideological fight against the BSO.

All ideologies which aim at human love, brotherhood, liberty, justice and equality will be also our own ideology. And for that object DV will be our main source which is to be strengthened and enlarged by its permanent readers.

I will be grateful to all those who send their consent to enlarge the caravan of DV.

DV Reference of Media Centre
DV Edit Nov.1, 2004: "Manuwadi media collapsing? We need not kill it ÑÊit is killing itself".
DV Nov.1, 2004 p.4: "Manuwadi media making monkeys out of us", p.6:"Media madnes is part of ruling class sickness" .
DV Sept.1, 2004 p. 6: "Are we in a position to start a Dalit daily paper".
DV June 1, 2004 p.9: "Wanted our own media to counter Brahminical media menace".
DV May 16, 2004 p.6: "Big English & language dailies dying: Future belongs to revolutionary papers".
DV Oct.1, 2003 p. 19: "DV family members must take up challenge of media centre" & p. 20: Failure to produce Dalit intellectuals".
DV July 16, 2000 p.7: "Truth about India's toilet papers".
DV July 1, 2000 p. 20: "Wanted survey of racism in Indian national toilet papers".
DV May 16, 2000 p.8: "A new experiment in Indian journalism".
DV Edit March 16, 2000: "Failure on Media front forces DV to retreat".
DV June 1, 1999 p. 18: "DV disgust on media centre".
DV March 1, 1998: "If Media Centre is a must why delay it?"
DV Aug.1, 1997 p.5: "Media Centre Ñ Last appeal".
DV June 16, 1997 p.7: "Media Centre alone can launch cultural revolution to liberate Dalits".
DV Jan.16, 1997 p.6: "Kanshi Ram to launch Media Centre".
DV Nov.16, 1996 p.4: "Enraged Bahujans will break bones if media power is misused".
DV Edit Aug.1, 1996: "Bahujans can't rule without our own media to coutner this 420-press".
DV June 1, 1996 p.8: "Gains of election can't be cashed without Media Centre".
DV Edit Jan.1, 1994: "Wanted Media Centre at Lucknow to consolidate UP gains & educate Bahujans".

Sanskrit fanatics' mischief to deny English to masses
Dr. K. Jamanadas, "shalimar", Main Road, Chandrapur - 442 402
According to a news, Chinese officials are visiting India to recruit English teachers and select institutions where Chinese students can come and learn English. By 2008, when China Olympics are organized, everybody in China should know English. Whatever advantage India has now over China in the field of IT would vanish after that. The policy to increase knowledge of English in their countries is not only the policy of China alone but that of all East Asian countries.

But what is the situation in India? A reputed institution, C-Dac, is busy praising Sanskrit as the most suitable language for computers. No "intellectual" felt sorry for such a disgraceful statement. Despite all other languages in the world, to consider one particular language as god-given (to the Brahmins of India) is the worst form of imprudence and arrogance.

Caste superiority
Sanskrit has nothing to do with computer language, which is a binary language, a language of 1s and 0s, a language of on and off, a computer being nothing but a collection of millions of fast-acting switches. Those who claim that Sanskrit is a computer language have got a cruel and malevolent intention of projecting the misdeeds of their forefathers. A scholar in them is dead, only a caste superiority prejudice is seen in their such statements.

They are busy developing software for promoting Indian regional languages on computers. Vijay Bhatkar, the erstwhile OBC chief of this prestigious institution which could develop a super computer, was awarded "Maharashtra Bhusan". Unfortunately he engaged himself in providing Dnyaneshwari to the Varkaris of Alandi. Dnyaneshwari is a Marathi rendering of the Gita of 13th century which strengthened and propagated Chaturvarna after the fall of Budhism. It was the time when Brahminism raised its head and its leaders, to divide the masses keeping themselves united, started promoting regional languages all over the country around 1,000 AD.

Selling mothers
When I tried to impress to the "computer specialists" the importance of English for India, a "highly educated" computer specialist pointed out that Amrutanjan publishes its sale brochures in 19 Indian languages. Of course, it will do that. It is a business house. To earn profit is their aim. The business people even sell their mothers if it brings them money.

But C-Dac is not a profit-oriented institution or it should not be. And if it tried to be such it deserves to be shut down. If it is a "national" institution, it must promote the real national language of the country ÑÊEnglish and nothing else.

Though only 2% people know English, they are the opinion-makers and the whole of India thinks in English may it be agriculture, industry, law, medicine, sports, commerce, accounting, cinema, literature, poetry or any other field of life.

More, the then Maharashtra Education Minister was criticized by Sanskrit-loving scholars for introducing English subject from primary classes. He had retorted that this criticism was out of "conceit and ego" with a desire to retain their monopoly and pointed out that the wards of 13 past chairpersons of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan were being educated in English convents.

Microsoft warned
All the specialists in information technology must concentrate on English and even ask Miscrosoft, who are reportedly contemplating developing regional languages to refrain from doing this. Let all the sufferers for centuries remember that the Sanskrit-knowing people made it their monopoly for centuries and kept the majority in ignorance, poverty and slavery. They are now doing the same with English.

The Bahujans must note the motive of these people is to keep the masses in ignorance. Don't forget that Brahminism controlled masses through language. For details, see my "Decline and Fall of Budhism" (Blumoon Books, New Delhi, 2004).

Hindi now propagated by Hindi cinema is in reality Urdu, now being refashioned as Hindustani. But many orthodox Hindus are not willing to accept even that as the national language because of the hate for words from languages spoken by their former cultural conquerors. Sociologist Bal Krishna Nair laments about the opinion of elites that the adoption of Hindustani as the official language in place of Hindi would not be in keeping with the Brahminical revival that is making itself prominently felt in India during the post-independence period. The lovers of Sanskrit are the same people who are today asking others to adopt vernaculars but send their own children to English schools.

What did the propagators of Sanskrit give to the people of his country apart from disintegration and slavery of centuries? What kind of society they have produced? A society full of discriminations where more than half the people are unfit even for a touch, another one-third driven to forests and another group whose occupation is crime, a society where prostitution is practiced in the name of god and religion, a society where suicide is sacrosanct, a society where uttering obscene abuses is a part of religion, a society where daughters are murdered immediately after birth, a society where widows are burnt on the funeral pyre of their husbands, a society where a vast section of people are deprived from holding any property, holding any arms, getting any education, a society where taking a marriage procession on a public road brings atrocities, murder, rape and arson, a society where nearly the whole country use the public roads as a toilet. And one expects these very sufferers of this extreme exploitation to regard this language as holy and sacrosanct.

Regional languages divided the country into linguistic nations. Let us remember Dr. Ambedkar saying that the dividing line between linguistic provinces and linguistic nations is very thin.

DV Aug.1, 2004 p.27: "English ÑÊa must for every Dalit".
DV June 16, 2004 p. 22: "It is English language that made India a "nation".
DV May 16, 2004 p.25: "Church threatened: May go jobless in education & health sectors".
DV Edit Dec.16, 2003: "Language imperialism of upper caste rulers which slaves of India can't see through".
DV Edit Jan.16, 2003: "Rulers use English to enforce slavery on masses: India's language imperialism" & " Those who ignore English will miss the bus".
p. 5: "English becomes world language"
DV Nov.16, 1997 p.17: "Retain English at any cost: Dr. Ambedkar".
DV Edit July 1, 1986: "India breaking into nation states?" ÑÊThis mania of the mother tongue"