aThe two-day DV workshop for our senior-most Dalit family members of UP will be held at Lucknow between Jan.16-31, 2003. The exact date will be announced in the next issue.
Though the workshop has generated so much enthusiasm and some DV readers in UP are pressing us to include their names, we regret to say that so far, we received acceptance letters from only 15 out of the 56 invitations posted from here on Nov. 14. The workshop is limited to 30 people. We had enclsoed a postcard in our invitation itself to help expedite the reply. Yet our people are slower than the bullock cart.
How to defeat Brahminism, which goes at jet speed, at this rate? On one side our people are poor in English and on the other they are slow and lethargic. Remember: In this age of globalization, what matters is competition. Those who can’t, lose the race.
When we planned the Lucknow workshop, we had not even a single woman member from UP. However, our male mambers ashamed by our admonitions quickly enroled three Lucknow sisters to whom also we sent the invitations despite the fact they are totally new to DV’s revolutionary thinking.
It is in the interest of men to keep the women confined. If so, what right they must denounce the Manusmriti ?
All these indicate how difficult it is to organise the Dalits. If this is the position of senior-most DV family members well-versed in DV’s revolutionary line, you can imagine the situation of other Dalits.
The workshop will be held at: OM India, No.5 – Wazir Hassan Road, Lucknow – 226 001. (phone: 0522-22 07 134, 220 71 39, 220 64 68). A seminar on our book, Caste – A Nation Within the Nation, is also planned after the seminar to which all the DV family members from UP are invited.
