Bangalore: Dalit Voice in collaboration with Motilal Bhimaji Trust, New Delhi, proposes to hold a two- day workshop here for 25 selected senior Dalit members of the DV family in Karnataka and neighbouring states on Aug.20-21, 2003.
The purpose is to discuss the future of the Dalit community.
(1). On one side the reservations are dead because of privatisation. On another side, the rising Hindu nazism is trying to destroy our very identity by hinduising us.
(2). Dalit movement itself is dead. There is no socio-cultural awareness. Instead of mastering the thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar and using them to groom the younger generation, our people are becoming easy tools in the hands of upper caste politicians.
(3) . Dalit intellectuals are getting coopted and corrupted by the ruling upper castes.
(4). Efforts to brainwash Dalits that the Backward Castes are the enemies of Dalits and not the Brahminical upper castes.
The 23-year-old Dalit Voice, the oldest and the largest circulated Dalit journal in India, has been seriously – discussing these issues but our voice is getting drowned in the much louder mass media which is the monopoly of upper castes. What then is our future — the future of the original inhabitants of India, the children of Babasaheb? Till now we have been allowed at least to shout. But even this shouting may not be permitted henceforth. Some senior, thinking members of our family have been invited to ponder over these.
