Sikhs enjoying Brahminical slavery

During the 1980’s when I was in Papua, New Guinea, I used to get Dalit Voice and had also obtained all your books. When I migrated to Australia after retirement, I started to study Sikh literature and having not much time to go through other books. But my friend, Dr. Awatar Singh Sekhon (Canada), convinced me to subscribe, which I did. Your writings are very effective and to the point but I find that you are stuck up within certain rigid area whereas the need is to awaken the masses in villages who hardly read your valuable thoughts. The life of the poor has not improved for the last 59 years. Moreover, I being over 70, I could hardly strengthen your hands. Thanks for your sincere writings.

Pleasing Brahmin masters

1) I am an ordinary person practicing Sikh faith and retired since 1995. Writing requires skill, knowledge, resources, energy, higher education. I lack all these ingredients. You know S. Joginder Singh of the Spokesman, who despite his excommunication, his writings have been appealing to the masses because he touches those issues which others don’t dare to touch. Same approach should be taken by you because you have very forceful voice but it is not awakening the poor masses either due to English language or being not in their own regional languages, no doubt resources are also lacking.

2) Except reservations in education and some employment, the social status of the oppressed remains low. Why no reservation in factories, farming land, shops, transport, mining, insurance, banking and other financial corporations? If economic standard of any group has not progressed, equal vote right has no meaning as we have seen for the past 59 years.

3) In Punjab for instance, over 50% farmers had gone abroad to UK, Canada, USA, Australia, NZ, etc. they have been holding foreign citizenship but continue to hold land titles in their villages. Why not transfer it to the village poor? Now Biharis have been controlling those properties but not the native poor?

4) After Dr. Ambedkar, the Congress projected Jagjivan Ram and his IAS daughter but no relief for the poor. Paswan and Lalu Prasad or Mayavati don’t see eye to eye. Their weakness is exploited by the Hindu parties — whether Congress, communists, BJP/RSS. Even though they may get only 10 - 20 seats in Parliament out of 550, if they remain united, no one will dare to exploit them. For the last 55 years they have been pleasing their Brahmin masters.

5) Same story with Sikh leaders. Since 1947, Sikhs leaders like Swaran Singh, Partap Singh Kairon, Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Buta Singh, Zail Singh, Parkash Singh Badal, Surjit Singh Barnala, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, Simranjit Singh Mann, Darbara Singh, Killer CM Beant Singh, Amarinder Singh, Manohar Singh Gill, Tarlochan Singh, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Charanjit Singh Atwal and the like have achieved nothing for the Sikhs. If they disassociate from the Hindu parties, and unite into one United Sikh Dal, I am sure their major demands such as transfer of Chandigarh, Bhakhra Dam, Punjabi-speaking areas, release of Sikh youth from jails, recognition of Punjabi as the official language and economic development etc. could be achieved. Due to their greed and ill-gotten wealth, they continue to lick the dirty shoes of Brahminical hypocrites.

Look at PM Manmohan Singh, who has tarnished the Sikhi image by becoming a Congress puppet like other Sikhs, but marrying his daughter to a Hindu.

PM tarnished Sikh image

6) After June 1984, Punjab is besieged by the Hindus —Congress/BJP/RSS — and the Badal/Barnalas have mortgaged themselves and similarly SGPC president and its paid officials have started following the Brahminical rituals for their own survival. Sikh and Punjabi language have disappeared from Punjab and it looks that history repeats itself when after the death of Ranjit Singh, (1839 - 1849) Poobias and Dogras played their treachery role. Why to blame others when Sikhs themselves have started rejoicing their slavery?

I am happy that I am free from the clutches of Brahminism since 1983.

DV July 16, 2006 p.11: “Fall of Sikhism began with Sikh hatred of Dalits”.

DV Feb.16, 2005 p.5: “Dalits must burn Dasam Granth to save Sikhs from Brahminism”.

DV Edit Feb.1, 2005: “If Sikhism is not saved from sure death, Brahminism will run riot & kill every protest movement.”.

DVJune 16, 2004 p.11: “Ballan Dalit saints revolt against upper caste Sikhs”.

DV Edit Jan.1, 1999: “Sikhism manipulated & massacred by upper caste Sikh intellectuals to help Aryans”.

DV Edit Nov.1, 1998: “Slow death of a brave community: BSO using internal enemies to destroy Sikh identity”.

LETTERS TO EDITOR

Siva Tanuku (tanukus@gmail.com): I am extremely upset with the report and sorry for all the Dalits killed in Bhojpur, Bihar. However, my question is did the Brahmins kill these people? Can you show one proof that Brahmins killed these people? Why don’t you discuss this kind of incidents in DV? The report also talks about Manusmriti. Frankly, I came to know about this Manusmriti through Dalit Voice. Millions and millions of Brahmins don’t even know about this and never read it (even myself). Using these catchy words to justify your “hatred of Brahmins” can’t resolve anything. In Bihar, there are many incidents of Dalits killed by Bhumihars and Yadavas etc. DV always says Brahmins are involved in this. At Hyderabad, the land value went up 1000% in recent years. The govt. (comprising Khamma, Reddy, Yadavs and Gowds) is grabbing all the land from Dalits. Where is Brahmin involved in this case? By focusing on the imaginary you are doing great injustice to the Dalits. Because you are hiding the real enemy. If your issue is only to get rid of Brahmins then you have already achieved that in AP.

(1) Land, political power, media, industries are all controlled by the Khamma-Reddy-Rajus. (2) The IAS, IPS, judges, lawyers, educational institutions (from 1st class to engineering and medicine) are completely dominated by Reddy-Khammas. (3) Brahmins are just a middle caste in AP without any power.

So, all your theories about Brahmins in AP are baseless as the ground realities in AP is completely different from what you portray in DV.

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Andhra Brahmin living in USA Siva Tanuku’s facts on AP are right. The brain orders the leg to kick and the leg does the job of kicking. The brain is the Brahmin and the leg is the Khamma-Reddy etc. That is why the Khamma leader Chandrababu Naidu aligned with the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) and another leg Khamma Venkaiah Naidu of AP was president of BJP for long. The Reddys are mostly in the Congress, the original Brahminical party of India. Siva is not wrong on facts but in his interpretation — EDITOR.

Muhammad Bashir, Executive Director, KIC, PO Box - 2292, Islamabad - 4400, Pakistan: My study of Dalit Voice and your books will be a pioneering endeavour based on scientific lines which will be open to future researchers who may replicate the study and approve or reject my findings. My current effort will encourage many serious researchers to undertake further study in this domain. Any objective study of Dalit Voice is in fact a probe into the centuries-old tyranny of caste-based Brahmin Social Order, untouchability and continued betrayal of the human rights of hundreds of millions of Dalits. At this stage I am not sure what will be the final shape of the research report? It will be in a format of scientific report for use by the university. However, I will try in the write-up a style which with slight modification can change it to booklet. Once the actual work is completed Urdu translation will be no problem and it will be done. I also believe that irrespective of ones faith all men of goodwill must support your mission and Dalit cause as basically it is a great human tragedy. One thing I can assure you that your noble efforts will not remain unrewarded. Your cause is just and despite all odds the struggle must continue. (abunaveed@yahoo. com).

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Your Letter is inspiring. No Muslim leader of India, whether religious, political or business, has so for expressed such words about our work. Many of them know our work but hesitate to support it fearing the Brahmin Big Cat. Islam says you should be afraid of only the god and none else. Here in India, the Muslim leadership is so much afraid of the Big Cat. This fear has caused a big gulf between the two oppressed communities of SC/ST/BCs and Muslims. And the Brahmins are reaping the profits — EDITOR.