John Trimble, Organizer, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, 410-Lynhurst, Atlanta, Ga 30311, USA: We organized an opposition to US military intervention in Gulf. The Jan. 1 DV edit: “India heading towards fascism: first victims will be Muslims,” reminded us of the US atrocities on Muslims in Iraq and Kuwait and the daily fascist oppression by zoonosis against Palestinians, Jordan and Lebanon. We must encourage not only Muslims but all justice-loving people to fight zionism, fascism and imperialism. We are keen to know how you are organising your struggle. DV is playing an important part not only in Dalit struggle but also in the world struggle for justice and humanity.
Jonathan Scott, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, USA: | am an African-American and we are with you hundred per cent in your struggle for freedom and equality. The world doesn’t know your story. This story must be told to the world.
(Aran enslavement of the Untouchables of India, perhaps the single largest indigenous population of the world, is the best kept secret in the world. Every Black American must consider it a duty to lift this veil of secrecy and reveal its ugly features to the world. We are here to supply you any amount of literature — EDITOR)
Yogesh Varada, Coordinator, Ambedkar Centenary Celebrations Committee, P.O. Box-846, Stn. P. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 222, Canada: Congratulations for your excellent work of spreading the message of Babasaheb Ambedkar. Only Ambedkar’s can unite all of us, guide us and lead us to success. I shall continue to support you in this direction. DV helps us a lot in knowing and understanding India. So, we all wait for DV. |am sending you a few copies of Voice of Vision’s first issue which | edited. Those interested may write to us. The journal carries many articles and features including an item, “Dalits seek UN status,” reproduced from DV and a box item of Mrs. Surinder Kaur, Calcutta, producing historical evidence to prove that SC/STs are a national minority. I am in close touch with Black leaders, Dr. Velu Annamalai, DV’s American representative, Runako Rashidi.
Iqbal Yunus Khan, Editor, “New Trend”, 43 Orton Park Rd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada: Your Jihad against the oppressors in India is attracting world attention. You are a fearless warrior fighting on behalf of millions. I have great respect for you. In a magazine called The Persecuted | was surprised to read your comment about Moulana Hasan Ali Nadvi (Vol. 10 No.6 Feb. 1 p.14). Referring to this knowledgeable Moulana, you say “who is considered to be India’s most famous Muslim saint and also winner of the King Faisal Award.” Imam Abu Hanifa lived under the rule of Umayya and Abbasids. They sought his favors but the learned Imam scrupulously avoided association with corrupt and tyrannical rulers. Mansur, the Abbasid Caliph, once offered him a high sum which he refused. Imam Abu Hanifa could never be purchased or cowed down by the rulers. lbn Hubaira, the Umayyad Governor of Kyfa, once asked him to occasionally visit. Since the Imam abhorred corrupt rulers, he hit back saying: “Why should | meet you? If you favour me, | would be associating myself with your evil”. “The venerated saint of India” goes to the court of a’ corrupt king (kingship is not permitted under Islam) and accepts the reward. Saints do not accept rewards from any king unless an exception is found in the rules for this Indian saint. Has this Moulana ever criticized and denounced this illegal ruler? The Fat » Fahad, the agent of Imperialist USA?
(We have great respect for Moulana Hasan Ali Nadvi. It was he who released the first issue of DV ten years ago. His concern for the Dalits is sincere. To err is human and even saints like the Moulana are humans. We are sure he will regret if he has committed any mistake because there is no doubt that he is an authority on Islam — EDITOR)
Fazlul Haq, London: | admire your honesty, sincerity and fighting spirit. When | first came across the Dalit Voice, | realized that you are carrying on a crusade which it is my duty to support. | felt we were in the same wavelength. Humanity is indivisible. When you fight against oppression, you fight for the oppressed everywhere. Your struggle is not unrelated to the struggle of Palestinians, the South African Blacks or any other oppressed humans. Oppressors become united when they find their vested interests under threat. | belong to Bangladesh and here | am a practicing barrister and settled here.
N.B. Jaronde, treasurer, Maharashtra Mangasarian Vidyut Karmachari Sanghatana, Nagpur: In this State the Hindu Nazi parties are a doing all-out efforts to misguide the Dalits by projecting Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Phule as “good Hindus”. _. They are conducting Samajik Samarasta and Samata Parishad bribing some corrupt people among Dalits. The Hindu press is giving full publicity to the Nazi work. On March 20, they arranged a Samata Parishad at Mahad, which is a holy place for Dalits where the Father of India performed the satyagraha on the Chavdar Tank. The Nazis are conducting a Vishwa Buddha Exhibition in different cities to show that Buddha was the 9th avatar of Visnu, the Aryan god, and that Buddha helped Hinduism. These Nazis must be exposed.
Saji K. Joseph, Dalit Panthers of India, Mavelikkara, Kerala: On March 9 last, our Kerala state president, Pandalam Rajendran, was attacked by a group of upper castes who call themselves Marxists. On March 3, last year some Hindu Nazi party boys attacked Ambujakshan at Badagara. “Marxists” have become the no.1 oppressors of Dalits thereby proving your prediction. A dozen attacks have been made against our people in recent months by the “Marxists” who sare working in close cooperation with Nazis.
Surendran C. Mullanmadakkal House, Urangatitiri, Kerala-673 639: When | saw an ad of your latest book, Ready Reference to Revolutionaries, (Rs.5) | wanted to buy it and read it. But had no money. So, | stole some pepper from my poor father and sold it.! am enclosing Rs. 5 worth stamps for the book.
(We like this beg, borrow or steal policy for our work connected with revolution. Where there is a will there is a way. Poverty will never come in the way. When you are so hungry for revolutionary, literature you will find somebody who will satisfy you — EDITOR).
Mohan Raj, Hyderabad: Local newspapers have announced that the “First World Brahmin Conference” will be held at Tirupati from June 26 for three days. | think we must manage a resolution at this conference to see that they accept that the Balaji Temple at Tirupati is a Buddhist temple and that the Brahmins should peacefully return it to its rightful owners – Or “else, we have to threaten an agitation like the Rama Janmabhoomi at Ayodhya. Dr. K. Jamnadas the author of the book (DV March 16 p.18) which for the first time disclosed this fact, must lead the team at Tirupati.
Ramakrishna, Bangalore: The March 9, Karnataka’s first Bhoosa (cattle-feed) Sahitya Conference inaugurated by the country’s most powerful Dalit leader, B. Basavalingappa, State Rural Development Minister, and presided over by you was a glorious success. Writers from all parts of India attended it. Your presidential address was terrific. Kannada _ literature is full of cattle feed. We must have such a conference every year and we must take it to district centers. –
Gusain Lal Berry, Retd. C/O Rama Ki Kutir, Dolia-Naula, Almora, UP: | love DV but since | have just retired from service ‘ can’t afford to renew me. subscription. | say this with deep pain in heart.
Paramjit Singh, Hyderabad: | loved your editorial, “Welcome Gulf War”, DV. Feb. 16. Iraqis are the only people who have learnt the art of dying. Some countries forgetting their Islamic heritage became slaves of American imperialism. White wolves are supplying Bible to third world countries and stealing their wealth. UN and other world organizations and international human rights organisations have all proved useless. Mangolian races being closer to the white skins joined the whites instead of siding with their fellow Asians. Only DV has proved that it will not hesitate to speak out the truth on the Gulf War.
M.B.S. Char, Bangalore: | want authorities on Ambedkar’s to answer these two specific questions so that the readers of DV all over India and the world are enlightened. 1. What is the characteristic principle of Ambedkar’s? (2) What specific method Ambedkar’s advocates to our people to adopt for achieving their total liberation from the Aryan colonialism and rebuild a new India?
Bharat Rai, Dept. of Biology, Kolasib College, Kolasib, Mizoram, 796 081: | happened to read your book, Hinduism, Fascism, Gandhism, and this made me mad. | want to read all books published by Dalit Sahitya Academy.
Rajesh Kumar, New Delhi: | wish to confirm what you have been often writing that the Aryan races conspired to create a separate Muslim state (Pakistan) so that they could clamp a Brahminical imperialism over India free from Muslim competition. Writing about the period immediately after the partition of Bengal (1905), Bhai Paramanand, an Arya Samajist and a prominent Hindu Nazi leader, said: “My idea was that the territory beyond Sindh should be united with Afghanistan and the Northwest Frontier Province into a great Musalman kingdom. The Hindus of the region should come away while at the same time, the Musselman’s in the rest of India should go and settle in this territory”. (p.40-41: The Story of My Life, Bhai Paramanand, Central ‘Hindu Yuvak Sabha, Lahore, 1934). From this we can conclude: 1. The Aryan race plan to drive out Muslims to a separate State (Pakistan) was made well before the Muslims came up with a similar demand. Paramananda conceived of this scheme well before 1910 while the Muslim League, which is being accused even today of creating Pakistan, first demanded a separate state for Muslims only in 1940 — after 30 years. 2. Aryan castes in India, to mobiliser the SC/ST/BCs against the minorities, tell them that Muslims were responsible for driving out the Hindus from territories now called Pakistan. But here it is Paramanand who is ordering the Hindus living in those territories to quit and migrate to “Hindu India”. How then can we blame Pakistan for driving out Hindus? In fact, the same Hindu Nazis are today planning the very same thing in Kashmir. They sent their agent, Jagmohan, to engineer anti-Muslim hatred and he conspired the Pandit (Brahmin) migration. This is exactly on the lines of the Paramanand blueprint.
G.V.K. Asan, Coimbatore: Your edit on the Gulf war (Feb. 16) is a spontaneous outpouring of the anguished, outraged East against the arrogant, exploiting West.
B.S. Sharfuddin, Muslim Writers Assn., Hidayat Centre, Beebi Alabi Rd., Mangalore – 575 001: Taranga, a Kannada weekly, has published an objectionable picture in its issue of Dec. 23, on page 24. One Santosh Kumar Gulvadi is its editor. The picture caption reads that it is a Hindu temple which was demolished and later a mosque was built. When we protested, he admitted that the picture was false.
(We are not surprised by the behavior of the Taranga Editor. The media in India is owned and run by Aryan races to protect, propagate and preserve their posts, privileges and properties. They will put forward thousand and one lies. They are doing their duty. They are expected to do their duty. All racists defend their racism through lies. But what media the Muslims have, to spread truth? They have none. Even when we said that we are prepared to defend the truth on behalf of Muslims the monied people among the Muslim elites are not coming forward to support us —ED/TOR).
T.K. Siddique, Yasir Manzil, Trisur, Kerala-676 107: | came in touch with DV when | was studying at Manipal. | was inspired by your great writings. | used to give my copy of DV to my two Ezhava Backward Caste friends who were saying that they were “Hindus” but after bring educated by DV the same people today say they are not Hindus. They have joined our movement of uniting the Indian races (SC/ST/BCs and Muslims). Together, we are spreading the message of DV here. You are right in saying that the current education system is brahminising not only the SC/ST/BCs but also Muslims and other minorities. | am so sorry that the elite Muslims behaved like this during the Gulf war. | feel that when the noble teachings of Islam came to this dark pit of brahminical social setup, even such a revolutionary religion of liberation got blunted. Unfortunately, those upper caste converts to Islam carried their old nasty-; habits along with their Islamic beliefs.
(You are right. Our representative, V. Prabhakaran, in his Kerala Newsletter, DV March 16 p.16, has exposed such brahminical tendencies among the elite Muslims. However, the Students Islamic Movement of India leaders in Kerala and elsewhere are correctly guiding the masses. Abdullah Moulavi, the former chief of the Kerala Jammat-e-isiami, would not have made such a remark against Dalits if only he had read the Koran correctly. There are several references in the Koran asking the Muslims to help liberate the Mustadafeen, meaning the oppressed, who in India are none other than the Untouchables. The gulf between the elite Muslims and the Muslim masses became very clear during the recent Gulf War. SIMI once held a seminar in Calicut on the topic” Liberation of India through Islam”. If the Muslims have leaders like Abdullah Moulvi how can Islam liberate India? The former all-India chief of the Jammat-e-Islami, Moulana Mohammed Yusuf, who is now ailing at Rampur, UP, had presented us a copy of Koran underlining all the references to the duty of Muslims towards the Mustadafeen. Sikhism, another revolutionary religion, launched to liberate the oppressed, got brahminised. Islam will also get brahminised if the existing corrupt leadership is not thrown out. A detailed report on this very subject published in this very issue needs to be translated to Urdu and all other languages so that the Muslim masses are recovered from these brahminised Muslim elites. Indian Muslims are mostly converts from SC/ST/ BC Indian races. Muslims, therefore, are also Dalits. We are sufferers they are co-sufferers. We were the first in India to give a call for Dalit-Muslim unity which has now become a concrete reality. Those people opposing this unity of the Indian Taces are not only our enemies but the very enemy of India — EDITOR).
S.M. Doula, Godavari Khani, AP: The Aryan races are committing aggression on Muslim shrines. Babri Masjid is the latest example of their aggression resulting in the death of thousands of innocent Muslims. To counter this, the Dalits must forcefully reclaim the Tirupati, Puri Jagannath temples which are now proved to be Buddhist temples. History is full of Aryan vandalism against Buddhist and Jain places of worship, libraries and even cold-blooded murder of Buddhist and Jains by Adi Sankara. The all-India Jamaat Islami chief, Moulana Sirajul Hasan Saheb, should be approached.
(Sirajul Hasan Saheb is our esteemed friend and is deeply interested in our work. But some of his colleagues are not — interested in our work. Rather they are opposing our work. Dalits and Muslims can jointly work and produce miracles. No non-Muslim people have done so much to the cause of the oppressed Muslims as we have done in DV. But our work is not being appreciated by the upper caste converts to Islam who are today controlling the Muslim leadership. Unless and until this leadership is thrown out Babri Masjid issue cannot resolved — EDITOR).
Press Secretary, SIMI, Tamil Nadu, Madras: The State unit of the SIMI met here on March 3 and elected the following office-bearers; Bakkar, zonal president, Jawahar Ali, geneses., Shahjanathan, jt. sec., the election to the all-India SIMI took place in Bombay on Feb. 11 and Mohd. Mahfooz Falahi was elected as the new all-Indian SIMI chief. Jameel Siddique is the new Genese. Falahi was born in 1962 at Bhopal and later had his religious education at Azamgarh, UP, MA history from AMU, Aligarh. Earlier he was the zonal chief of AP and Karnataka.
Arshad Kalliath, 6/444-Arappura Rd., Valiyur Kavu; Trivandrum-695013: Congratulations on your brilliant piece on the Gulf War. No paper in India has done such an analysis. The failure of the Russians to arrange a ceasefire in the Gulf and thereby stop the massacre of Iraqis by the white imperialists, may be due to the deliberate half-hearted attempts by the Perestroika brand of racists. Meanwhile, their diplomats were busy establishing ties with the illegitimate racist regime of S. Africa. And they came out with flying colors. Consulates have been already opened in Moscow and Pretoria and they will be upgraded to full-fledged diplomatic missions very soon. This incident once again exposes the real colour of the whites. Also, the French, with whom Iraq had longstanding relations, too deserted Iraq and infect were – the first to invade Iraq.
(We were perhaps the first in the world to hint at a global gang up of whites and Zionists against Muslims and Blacks DV Nov.16, 90 p.20. Bush plan for a New World Order is exactly this. And the Gulf War was the first step in this direction. That the Russian white rulers joined hands with their white brothers in America is no surprise to Us. We also feared that the yellows too being close to the white skin would go with them. And we proved correct. The Time Magazine, April 1, in its cover story has fully endorsed what all we have said. The White racists, Zionists and the Indian Aryans have appointed the US as their global Cop. And this Cop will take care of the Blacks, Muslims and India’s untouchables. Already, the US has announced its decision not to vacate the Gulf. But kings and queens ruling over the oil-rich Gulf countries are more interested in protecting their wealth but not the revolutionary Islam or their oppressed Muslim masses. It is high time that Iran steps in and helps overthrow of all these anti-Islamic Arab rulers — EDITOR)
