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Sunset over Dalit world? Editor seeks permission to close down Dalit VoiceV.T. RAJSHEKARThe organisers of the silver jubilee function, Brother V.B. Rawat and Sister Rajni Tilak, have formally welcomed the DV family members to this historic function. Yes. This also is the first event of its kind and knowing the way the country is drifting we can say this will be also the last of its kind. Over six years back, we wrote an Editorial on “Sunset over India” (DV Edit March 1, 2000). Now we have become more pessimistic. Why we say today’s event is historic in every sense because no Indian daily or periodical, either English or language, invites its readers for a meeting with the Editor or holds an event exclusively for its readers. ENEMY INFILTRATIONFor today’s event, we did not invite any politician or VIP. It is confined exclusively to our esteemed subscribers and readers whom we call as our family. No paper calls its readers as its family. This is the greatness of Dalit Voice because Dalit Voice is a product of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s dreams and aspirations. I request you to exercise utmost discipline and make the day a supreme success. At the same time I request you to note that our enemy, Brahminical agents, might have infiltrated. We welcome them also. They are free to take notes and pass it on to their bosses so that the enemy would know what we think of them. But we should see that the enemy does not create any problem. This is the Dalit Voice family world-wide and as its Editor I want to tell you how we are bringing out DV converting our blood into sweat. BONE IN THE THROAT OF BRAHMINThe publication of DV continuously for the past 26 years is a miracle, nothing short of miracle. That the Brahminical rulers of India did not ban DV itself is another miracle. But we can’t rule out this possibility as DV has become a bone in their throat. Before expanding on the subject, I want to tell you that but for the initiative taken by Brother Rawat and Sister Rajni Tilak this function would not have taken place. Last year we tried our best to have our silver jubilee here but we failed. So on behalf of the Editor of Hindi DV, Dr. (Mrs.) K.K. Sidhu, and myself and all of you I thank our hosts for making our dreams come true. NEITHER LIVING NOR DEADThe health of DV is exactly like the health of this country. India is 60-years old and DV is 26 year-old. India is neither living nor dead. So also DV. It is neither living nor dead. For the past 15 years or so, our circulation is neither going up nor going down. In the rural areas, our circulation is good. But in the cities, particularly the metropolitan cities it is poor. Because in the cities where thousands of our highly paid elite Dalits live, their attention gets diverted. They find hardly any time to read. SUFFERING PEOPLE NOT GETTING ANGRYIt is only in India’s rural areas, the real thinking people live. This is where we have good circulation. That is why our Brahminical rulers have deliberately neglected the rural side and concentrated on cities. This is yet another tragedy of India. In Orissa, UP, Punjab, HP, Maharashtra, AP our circulation is good. But in MP, Rajasthan and Gujarat, where the BJP (Brahmana Jati Party) is ruling, our people are hinduised (meaning enslaved) and our circulation is poor. CONFUSION IN SOUTH INDIAThe Brahminical rulers are squeezing our people to death. They are making them an unthinking people. Hinduisation of the non-Hindu Dalits, Tribals and BCs have made them dumb-driven animals. They do not even get angry when they are insulted or even beaten up. The country is slowly dying. But the rulers are galloping with the GDP mantra in their mouth. The whole of South India is in a state of confusion. In AP, the Malas and Madigas are fighting though our circulation is fairly good. Tamil Nadu is in utter confusion. Brahmins have killed the Periyar movement and have instigated our people against the BCs and OBCs. Kerala is still worse. The Manuwadi marxists are our worst enemies. The upper castes have built an empire for themselves in the name of marxism. Karnataka has been always a dull state. BJP is ruling the state and it is going strong. For the first time BJP has come to the South also. In Maharashtra, the Mahar monopoly is not allowing the non-Mahars to come up. When Dalits themselves are not behaving like brothers what right we have to criticise our upper caste oppressors? I have no time to elaborate this point though it is an important one. In the current UP elections some Dalit leaders are busy fighting Sister Mayawati whose party is emerging as the victor. A happy development of UP is the death of all “national” parties — Congress, BJP and communists — and the emergence of caste-based parties. Did we not predict this? Will our family members from UP sitting here agree with me? Voice: Yes, Yes. You are right. DEATH OF MARXISTSWe easily fall prey to Brahminical tricks. Our people can be easily influenced by the enemy. Our people believe the enemy much more than our own people. In West Bengal, the communists have killed the Dalit movement. The recent violent agitation in W. Bengal prove that the CPM is going to die. Let it die. I have briefly given a picture of the DV situation in the country. We have tremendous achievements to our credit. As the Editor of DV, I should not say this. But some family members have written to me and wanted me to tell this at the silver jubilee function. Our state representatives are sitting here. I will introduce them one by one. Brother Raju Thomas from Madras, Dr. Yadaiah from Hyderabad. Others could not come. ACHIEVEMENTS OF DVDalit Voice is the only Dalit paper in India to take up the cause of the entire Bahujan Samaj. Dalits alone cannot win the battle against Brahmanvad. It has to be a combination of all the oppressed as told to us by Babasaheb. There are several other language and some English Dalit papers. But they confine to Dalits only. But DV fights for Dalits, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and even Backward Castes and even women — including Brahmin women. DV is the country’s only paper having a good circulation among Muslims—that too revolutionary Muslims. I find in the audience a large Muslim presence. Syed Shahabuddin, our good old friend, has honoured us. We welcome you all to this family gathering and request our Dalit family members to stand up and give a big hand in support of Christians, Muslims and Sikhs. FOUNDING FATHERS OF RACISMIn fact, DV has to a great extent influenced the formation of the Bahujan Samaj and even the Bahujan Samaj Party. That is why we have consistently supported Kanshi Ram and BSP — of course without joining the party. Kanshi Ram was our good old friend. Mongoloid Christians from North East have come in good numbers. I also find Dalit Christians. We all belong to one big family — the Bahujan Samaj. This country belongs to us. We have to take control of it by ousting the existing Brahminical rulers. Dalit Voice was the first in India to internationalise the Dalit problem and tell the world that Untouchability based on the varna (meaning colour in Sanskrit) is nothing but racism. Racism was founded in India by the Aryan Brahminical people. Racism is not the monopoly of the White Western people. Brahminism is racism and they founded it. When DV was started (1981) hardly anybody new the word “Dalit”. Today it has become a household word. It is now universally accepted having acquired a new connotation and denotation. DV PREDICTIONS NEVER WENT WRONGDV was the first to introduce the Blacks of America to India’s Black Untouchables. My book, Dalit – The Black Untouchables of India, has gone into four editions and its American publishers tell me the book is in great demand in America. The Afro-Americans came to know of our problem only from this book. We had several Black delegations from USA. During the past 25 years DV has made several predictions. Not a single prediction has gone wrong. The latest prediction is this Khatri Sikh PM is dragging the country down. DV is India’s only journal which spoke truth on M.K. Gandhi who, Babasaheb said, is the Enemy No.1 of Untouchables. In the May 1 DV, we are coming out with a major story on the Gandhi as sex maniac and racist. DV is the only journal in India to follow Babasaheb and live up to his intellectual honesty. Every issue of DV carried on its p.2 “Thus Spake Ambedkar” and several hundreds of our readers have made a book out of these pages. Babasaheb was the first in modern India to identify our enemy oppressors as Brahminism. DV has consistently fought Brahminism. No other journal or paper in India had shown such a courage. We dare say we have done this job with utmost honesty and also consistency. DV CONVINCES BRAHMINS THEY ARE OPPRESSORSIn India, you can survive by attacking even the god or anybody else but you can’t survive if you criticise the Brahmin. As the Editor, I can say we have not only survived but convinced the enemy oppressor itself that our criticism of Brahminism is perfectly right. A number of Brahmin readers of DV have written admitting their guilt. But the Muslim leadership is not heeding our appeal. We call upon the Muslims not to hesitate but name your oppressors. Your enemy and our enemy and the enemy of the country as a whole is the same. PAKISTAN VISITFrom Delhi, I am proceeding straight to Pakistan which has invited me to inaugurate the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar birth anniversary at Lahore on April 13. This itself is a great achievement that even Pakistan is closely studying our writings. We have our website and it is read by over 10,000 people the world over. We get many threatening letters, hate mails. All these are part of the game, Professional hazards. We take it in good humour. BANIAS & SHUDRAS SWALLOWEDBrahminism will not be there without the Brahmin. But we want to assure the Brahmins that we hate no individual Brahmin. We hate only the mental institution the Brahmins have created by co-opting the entire 15% upper castes to strengthen Brahminism. Our fight is against this social system which we want to destroy to save India. If you look into history and the Brahminical literature, Brahmins have fought and killed the Kshatriyas. Parasurama did it. The Brahmins ill-treated the Vaishyas who were poverty-stricken. The Gujarati Bania, M.K. Gandhi, brought up his jatwalas. The fourth grade shudras are the children of the concubines of Brahmin. All the three — Kshatriya, Vaishya and shudras — hated the Brahmin. But that was yesterday. Today, all the three are in the Brahmin pocket. Banias finance the Brahmin and the Thakurs and shudras are the fighting arm of Brahminism. All these three ruling upper castes have been made unthinking stupid asses by the Brahmins. How long will they go on bum-licking the Brahmins? When will they learn to live with self-respect and try to work to save India? DV’S HARSH LANGUAGEDV’s tone, tenor and language may be harsh. Hard hitting. Yes we admit it. We have our own vocabulary. Our own style. We learnt it from our Father. Babasaheb, the Father of India, was also harsh and hard-hitting. Yes. We are angry people. We are angry with the Brahminical system which has to be destroyed. So, we have to use razer-sharp words and phrases. This is the only language the enemy understands. Your goody-goody words and phrases will not hit the head of the enemy. This enemy is not an ordinary enemy. It has fooled even the Jews who today control the world. JEWS & BRAHMINS MEET IN DELHIRecently in Delhi, the Jews and the Brahmins met at the residence of L.K. Advani and passed a resolution declaring the Muslims as their common enemy. DV was the first in the world to disclose this. This Brahminical enemy, which is killing India and made it a beggar nation, will understand only the language of Babasaheb and we are following our Father’s footsteps. We are proud of the traditions built by DV and our family members love it. They are our masters and we go by what they say. ENGLISH MEDIA DYINGDV has a glorious future. I can tell you that. Every English daily paper and periodical is dying. Particularly the English media. This is because the English knowing population of India is not growing. Brahmins are not allowing schools to teach English to prevent our people coming up. That is how the English knowing “cream” is mere 4.50 crores out of a total population of 110 crores. That is why the circulation of English dailies is mere 3.5 crore. That means less than 4% of Indians read English papers. You can imagine the poverty of thinking in India. Every daily, every periodical is suffering and facing closure. INDIA’S MADDEST ENGLISH DAILYIndia’s maddest English daily, Times of India, owned by the Jain Marwaris, is surviving by publishing pictures of naked girls, sports, entertainment and sex, drink, gambling, crime on its front page. So, the future is there only for papers like DV which speak out the truth and defend justice at any cost and by any means. So, we have to start a “media centre” in Delhi and I am ready to take up the responsibility. I am a missionary. My wife is dead. My only child (now sitting here) is based in America. He has come all the way from New York to attend this historic event. CLOSING DOWN OF DVI have no property. I live in a small rented house in Bangalore. I am ready. What we need is money to shift to Delhi and to have a “media centre” which will not cost much. It is affordable. If our members are not ready to sacrifice and suffer with me, what is the use of continuing this Dalit Voice? I will deal with my problems and the crisis I am facing in running DV later in the afternoon. But this much I want to say at this stage that it is difficult to carry on the work single handed. I am 75 and fortunately my health is good. The only thing good with me is my health. Everything else is bad, very bad: No money, no support, no cooperation. The Brahminical rulers are very angry. They are giving me all sorts of pin-pricks. They have given me enough trouble. But DV is giving me no time for any other work. I want to write books which need lot of time to think and plan. In DV, we deal with current issues. Only our books carry our innermost and most concentrated thoughts. That is why I need lot of time to write a book which can’t be produced like a cake. If our family members are not ready to support the “media centre” in Delhi there is no point in continuing DV. With a heavy heart I beg you to give me the permission to close down Dalit Voice. Those happiest on hearing this will be our Brahminical oppressors. I see our people in no mood to fight the oppressors. The enemy often says it is only DV that is fighting and “instigating” the Dalits. Our people are not willing to fight Brahminism as directed by our Father. What can we do? But I will not stop. DV may stop but I will not stop. I have carried on the mission for 26 long years. Even the giant Babasaheb could not continue his paper for so long. He started three papers and closed it. DV has been coming out without a break since 26 years. This is a record in Indian journalism. I thank you for the goodwill and solidarity. And I request you to accept my suggestion for closing down Dalit Voice. 26 years of DV : Converting
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