JUST A REQUEST AS DV ENTERS 15TH YEAR

As we enter the 15th year of publication, a record in the history of India’s Dalit Journalism, we were thinking of slashing the number of pages from the usual 24 pages, indicating the deteriorating health of the country. As a vital part of the country, any sickness afflicting the country will also affect DV. A week-long holiday for the Dipawali (in a country of endless holidays) was followed by continuous and prolonged power cuts in Bangalore, completely dislocating and disrupting our work. Consequently, the posting of the Nov. 1 issue of DV was very much delayed. And this disruption and delay affected the Nov. 16 Issue. What is the position of DV as it enters the 15th year? Our position is exactly that of India, which is neither living nor dead because of the 50-year rule of the Aryans. Readers from different parts of India and the world write to us, and some even come to meet us to say how wonderful DV is. With this praise, their job is over. The brahminical ruling class is so alert, aggressive, and monopolising the entire media. But India’s largest circulated Journal of the Bahujan Samaj is languishing for want of support. Our repeated plea for our own “Media Centre” had no buyers. We have stopped talking about it because we are tired of repeating the same thing. If the slaves of India want to enjoy their slavery, what can we do? We are losing patience. We are also getting tired. Sometimes, getting irritated by the appalling Ignorance, Inefficiency, Indiscipline, and even intellectual corruption among our people. The brahminical forces may be ruling, but they too are in a bigger crisis. The Brahmana Jati Party (BJP), the child of the Congress, the original brahminical party of India, is facing a serious caste war inside it. This child may die even before its father, yet we are not exploiting the contradictions wrecking the ruling class. Misquoting Babasaheb, our Dalit “vote politicians” are misguiding the Dalits. The Muslims, duped by their political and religious leadership, are in a dazed condition. Backward Castes have become awkward castes. It is total confusion all around. Brahminical forces are also confused. In fact, they are going mad, biting everybody. As we enter the 15th year, a crucial year for us, we have to convert all these problems into a god-sent opportunity. Only honest intellectuals among the Bahujan Samaj can do this. With this confidence, we enter the 15th year, making only one request to every subscriber of DV to enlist just one more subscriber. DV circulation then simply gets doubled. If this one simple, single request our reader can fulfill, then we get the confidence to dash ahead and meet the challenge.