OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: The July 25, 2002 Union Cabinet decision to allow 26% foreign direct investment (FDI) in newspapers is a big victory for DV though we demand further liberalisation. (DV Edit July 16, 2001: “Dalit, Muslims, Christian, Sikh journals may seek foreign investment to publish Truth & fight oppression”).
Because it was the Dalit Voice which exposed the ruling Brahminical Social Order hypocrisy that hailed privatisation and globalisation in every sector except their sacred cow, the monopoly print media, which they wanted to keep shut fearing that all their top secrets, suppressed so long, would get exposed.
The secrets of Vaidik Vajpayee, as the Time magazine explosive story exposed (DV July 1, 2002 p.11: “Vajpayee’s hidden face“) are kept suppressed by the media because the journalists belong to mostly his tribe.
Vajpayee talks swadeshi but drinks videshi. When the upper castes love everything videshi (foreign), why the print media alone should be kept a brahminical monopoly? The humbugs in the media stand exposed. They suppressed all the secrets of Vajpayee but the American-owned Time exposed it. The vaidiks fear Truth.
Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, who are our blood brothers and also victims of brahminical media, must now think of setting up their own media centres. Dalit Voice will be too glad to accept offers from investors in the interest of establishing Truth and Justice.
