With ref. to your DV Dec.16, “India’s corrupt intellectuals”, I have been wrongly described there as belonging to the JNU. I am a professor of sociology in the University of Delhi. The JNU has a distinguished faculty and you have done it an injustice by describing me as a member of it while calling me a fake intellectual. Like you, I believe that a great many things need to be done for the disadvantaged sections of Indian society. But unlike you, I do not believe that much good can come out of caste quotas in education and employment. I am opposed to caste quotes for the Other Backward Classes but not opposed to affirmative action, including reservation, for the SC/ ST. I believe that it is a serious mistake to club the SC/ST along with the OBCS and the religious minorities. I hope you will at a future date allow me the hospitality of your column to explain my views more fully. you do a disservice to your cause, for which I have some sympathy, by describing a newspaper such as The Times of India as toilet paper.
The professor has repeated his good old brahminical stand of opposing reservations to BCs while supporting it (in words) in the case of SC/STs but in action sabotaging it. The ruling brahminical social order is a pastmaster in this cunning game making SC/STs fight BCs and vice versa and then rule and ride over both. We know this game. The oppressed original inhabitants of India, victims of this Aryan terrorism aided and abetted by its the corrupt intellectuals are becoming aware of their
Enslavement.
Reservations are part of our human rights assured in the Constitution of India to both SC/STs as well as to BCs who are identified as “socially and educationally backward. “Economic backwardness” is not mentioned in the Constitution.
Reservation for Archakas: If our city-bred “intellectuals” want “economic criterion” they must get the Constitution amended.
SC/STs are no different from BCs, Both are original inhabitants of India. And both suffer from the same Aryan oppression. The brahminical mischief to divide the two will not work any longer.
If the professor is honest in opposing caste-based reservations why he is not opposing the cent per cent reservation for Brahmins as archakas in govt-managed temples? The oppressed people of India have started understanding the mischief of our fake intellectuals and the country’s toilet papers.
Strong language: As for the use of “strong language”, this is so with all the victims of violence all over the world. The only weapon of the hurt mind is to loudly protest. Well-fed people using deception to enslave the oppressed need not resort to invectives or polemics. Read our DV edit March 1, 1991. The professor should know that DV is the country’s only journal for the persecuted nationalities denied human rights. Its language, its style cannot be changed. That is the only language the enemy understands. DV is not meant for the cunning and the well-fed. – EDITOR.
