It was a pleasant surprise to read a columnist in the Telegraph using our language to describe India’s Brahminical toilet papers as a 420 press. Shocking but true.
P. Sainath’s thesis is that these 420 presses is shielding India’s corrupt caucus headed by the Chanakya. But there he stops because if he says why these 420 presses is shielding the Chanakya, then his column will not get published. To that extent India’s media is communalized.
This is what he says: –
“In one and only one respect Narasimha Rao was indeed a Chanakya. Not in economics. He left his country’s poor in despair. Not in social terms. He presided over Ayodhya. But he understood the extremely selfish and self-seeking nature of the privately owned press. He understood that nature because it accorded so well with his own.
There he was in mid-1991 without any constituency. The people of his home state wouldn’t elect him to a panchayat seat. He had to come into Parliament from Ramteke in Maharashtra. He had no support base within the party and faced formidable foes like Arjun Singh. He had no mass appeal, no charisma. He decided to build his constituency in the media giving elite concessions beyond its wildest dreams.
That worked. Overnight, Rao became the greatest prime minister since Shastri, the man who could do no wrong.
Now that he is in trouble and out of power, the press pretends it knew all along that he is what he is and that there is no inconsistency in its stand. The charge against him right now is just that: a charge, an as yet unproven allegation. And a minor one compared for the damage he has actually inflicted as prime minister. But now sanctimonious humbug has taken over and much shock expressed over the new developments. Maybe we need to prosecute the press under section 420 too, for cheating and deceiving the reading public.” (Telegraph July 16, 96)
Exceptions prove rule: The very same 420 press has been shielding the Bangalore Papatti, R.K. Hegde, and many others. Why? Because all of them are jatwalas. Sainath can’t say it but DV can.
That does not mean the country’s journalists are wholesale 420. No. Exceptions are there for every rule. Nay. Exceptions prove the rule.
But where are these exceptions? Why these exceptions are not speaking out?
The reason is that these “exceptional” journalists have no paper to write. The press in India whether dailies or periodicals are owned by big business who themselves belong to upper caste and hence can’t afford to publish truth because of their business interests.
So, when we or Sainath criticize these 420 presses, we are not referring to the exceptions among journalists.
Double game: These 420 presses has been playing a double game (1) of shielding their jatwalas (2) publishing falsehoods against those who are antagonistic to their Jati interests.
We have written enough on these crimes of the Indian media. The Editorial in our latest issue (DV July 16, 96): “Frustrated Aryans mount all-round attack on Shudra Gout.”) refers to this.
Not only that. It is our considered opinion that if the Aryan upper castes have managed to stay as the country’s ruling class ever since India’s “independence”, it is solely because of this monopoly media it owns. Alas, our people- that is the SC/ST/BCs and ‘d Muslims, Sikhs, Christians or even the Shudras have not so far bothered to apply their mind on having their own media.
Attacks on Sikhs: Why? Have they not suffered at the hands of this media menace? Yes. They have. Sikhs have been called terrorists, anti-national and what not. Muslims are Abu- sad day in and day out. Christians maligned. But not one fellow gets angry. All of them have swallowed the insults though every day this media mad dog is biting them.
Not a single person or institution belonging to the Bahujan’s has been spared. Even V.P. Singh, an Aryan, was a victim of this mad dog.
SC/STs at least cannot afford a media that can compete with these 420 presses. But the BCs can. But they have become so much culturally deprived that they can never think of setting up one. They have become unthinking people. Even the Deccan Herald, a daily paper set up by the Backward Caste Idi gas of Bangalore to promote the BC movement, has been swallowed by the Vaidik’s.
Muslim tragedy: That even Muslims, a religiously and culturally virile community, has been made unthinking is perhaps the greatest tragedy of this country. (DV Guest Editorial Nov. 1. 1992: “Destructive role played by India’s anti-national national press’, by M.A Siraj and ” A warning to Muslims on media.” p.3)
What we have today is a Shudra Govt. in Delhi. Political power has not percolated even to BCs, not to speak of Dalits or Muslims. They have to wait. But even the Shudras, very much a part of the Brahminical Social Order, are not tolerated by this Brahmin-Bania press.
So, the time has come for the victims of this media mad dog to seriously think of countering this menace by setting up our own “Media Centre” about which we have written enough.
What Bible says: The leadership of Bahujan’s, the real owners of India and the producers of all its wealth, have a duty to see that their members come to know the Truth. It is only by knowing the Truth, they can make the members free. But this Brahminical 420 press is suppressing Truth and publishing damn lies.
In the past 50 years our Bahujan leaders never applied their mind to this all-important question. Now that the Shudra Govt. has given us some breathing space, we have to think of this seriously.
Since that is our mission, we are here to do everything and make the “Media Centre” a success.
“And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” Bible- John 8:32.
