- PRAKASH, TGT (MATHS), JAWAHAR NAVODAYA VIDYALAYA, CHIKKAJOGIHALLI-583 126
Strange circumstances made a Brahmin like me to join DV family. I am about to complete two years and have decided to continue. In the recent issues, especially after the Sept.11 incident, you have come to a conclusion about the racist masters at the global level.. I don’t think anybody has come up with a counter argument against this identification. The world seems to agree with your research.
“Defects in DV coverage”: In the Dec. 16 (p.22) DV, you have stated that you are ready to make any amendment. This is a matter of great pleasure for me.
It is very difficult to transform Dalits through literature. It is a visible fact that illiteracy is very high among Dalits even after 50 years of “independence”. Unless you organise some rallies at the panchayat level Dalits will never change.
This does not mean all your literary efforts will go waste. DV is an English journal and Aryans are the majority in the English-knowing group. If all your literature is directed against Aryans, their racist mentality will prevent them from reading DV. As a result DV circulation becomes limited and the masses remain away from the influence of DV.
To overcome this contradiction I request you popularize the ideas of Dr. Kancha llaiah i.e, the concept of “Dalit Bharat”. To say, India is forever land of Dalits. The Aryans, who established control over every system. similar to the Whites in America, denied rights to a large section of the population. As a result India became the dearest land for invaders. With every invader, the Brahmin jati allied itself for its selfishness. When they got the chance to establish “democratic” rule after 1947, they had no knowledge, no technology. However, they somehow ruled by imitating their Western masters.
Now a stage has come that they are selling India to multinationals. In this process their racist mentality has gone to such extremes that they are identifying the “economically” weaker Brahmins, who have to live in between Dalits for their livelihood, as Untouchables.
Once you start untouchability against any section of population it lures you to practice the same within your own people. Just like capitalism, untouchability also proves self-destructive. I request you to popularise the idea of “Dalit Bharat” similar to that of “spirit of Islam“. This ideology will surely attract people from all castes. to DV.
Glorifying Gandhi: The other thing I ‘request you is to set up a committee of Dalit intellectuals to rewrite the history of “modern India”. Instead of writing about the earlier past, write about modem India. That will be of greater use since our education system cheats us by glorifying Gandhi as “saviour of Untouchables” and Dr. Ambedkar as “a leader of oppressed castes”. Unfortunately, the truth is otherwise. Democracy in India has survived because of the pains taken by Dr. Ambedkar in framing a foolproof Constitution and not due to the foolish idealism propagated by Gandhi.
Dr. Ambedkar was a great economist at his times. But yourself being an Ambedkarite do not discuss any economic problems in DV. I wonder why?
The important thing you have neglected is the “educational policy” of our country. Although jatis have become invisible in the modern Indian society yet the education system supplies oxygen and fresh air to the same. Even if you speak truth and education system speaks false, people tend to believe the one said by education system. The best example is the Kashmir problem. Dalits are the working class of India. By sacrificing their interests the tiny Brahmin community cannot survive. If you make Brahmins aware of this fact it will surely bring a revolutionary change.
