B.K. Nag. Ambedkar Amar Jyoti, Sambalpur-Orissa 768 004: With ref. to Ms. Ruth C. Wady’s letter (DV Dec. 16 p.12) she may contact our Indian Black Dalit artist P.K. Mahananda FTL. Unvens GATA-6, 50255 Boras, Sweden. Our PVC stickers are sold out. DV helped us to get lots of Ambedkarite customers. We have video cassets recorded from TV programmes on Dr. Ambedkar. They can be had from our Dt. Coordinator, B-55/1 Rly. Colony, Rourkela – 769 013, Rs.150 each.
Brahma Din Sankhwar. Bhim Boudhik Manch, Bahawalpur, Kanpur, UP-209 206: We have been celebrating the Dr. Ambedkar Centenary Year from April 14, 1990 propagating Buddhism, displaying “Thus Spake Ambedkar”, meditation, cultural programmes, exhibition of Babasaheb and Buddhist literature. It will be concluded on April 14 with the publication of a souvenir. Those interested may write to the above address.
Dr. Prasada Rao M., Govt. General Hospital. Guntur. AP: The support extended by Kanshl Ram to the Shekar Govt. has put all of us into confusion. We need clarification.
[We have received many letters to this effect. But we can’t answer on behalf of Kanshi Ram whom we recently met here and made our point clear. The Shekar govt is a stooge of the Congress, the original Brahminical party of India, Correspondence on this subject is closed -EDITOR.
Dr. Harikumar, Kerala Dalit Medicos Assn. Alleppey Unit, Kerala: As the time for our liberation is nearing. it is the duty of all Dalits In the country to come out in full support of the Dalit Voice which is the only organ for us in the country. To begin with we have decided to buy 25 copies of DV.
K. Vijaya Raju, Vissanapeta. AP: With ref. to Mrs. Surinder Kaur letter (DV Dec. 16). I thank her for the valuable Information that the Image of a Khargadhart Buddha is lying in a Berlin Museum. We need a picture of that image so that we can make a sword of that type as our religious symbol and name our society as Khargadhari Buddhist Society. I will be the first Dalit from AP to join it followed by my wife and nine- month-old daughter. Only Khargadhari Buddhists can convert Dalits into a martial race to usher in the “Ambedkar Era” which as our Editor has predicted would begin with the 21st century.
Dev Athawale, Murtizapur, Akola dt., MS: I got two recent Issues of DV which revived my memories about your historic work that is appreciated by all of us in this part. We want to arrange a series of lectures as part of the Dr. Ambedkar Centenary Year Celebrations and we have decided to invite you here in the third week of Jan.
(We are daily getting such invitations from all parts of the country. While we thank such enthusiasts, we want to Impress them that it is physically impossible to accept them. Such enthusiasts must first read our journal and our DSA literature and digest them. The Editor will automatically follow the literature, Not the other way round – EDITOR.)
Er. G.S. Raju, Bangalore: You are always advocating the Dalit-Muslim-Sikh unity but not including Christians in this. Is it because you think that they are a forward class or that they are not interested in this unity?
(When we talk of the 85% Anaryan Indians (Bahujan Samajl. It means SC/ST/BCs 65%% and Muslims/ Christians/Sikhs, 20%. Besides, 80% Indian Christians are Dalits – EDITOR)
N.K. Sharma, New Delhi: DV must come out with more extensive details about the fact of non-Hinduism for the liberation of Untouchables. Publish articles on the glorious achievements of Untouchable (Anaryan) kings and their kingdom. Pallavas were Untouchable kings. Pellan’s probably are Pallavas. TN Dalits must provide authentic material. The Pallava capital is lying vacant and deserted somewhere in IN coast. Ask the IN Untouchables to go and occupy it and make it a “Dr. Ambedkar Buddha Vihara”. There are such great gaps in history which must be filled up to convince the Untouchables that they are not Hindus and never Hindus.
N. Lakshmindra Dev, geneses., HMT SC/ST Emp. Assn., A/2 Indira Mahal, 5th Main, Gandhinagar, Bangalore-9; The suggestion of O.B. Sonara, chairman of the ONGC SC/ST Emp. Assn. Cambay branch. to release HMT wrist watches with Dr. Ambedkar picture and signature has been accepted by the HMT management provided it receives institutional order to this effect. So, all SC/ST and Ambedkarite organizations must place orders for the Dr. Ambedkar watches which will be moderately priced. The orders may be sent to J. Balram Swamy, Asst. GM(D), HMT, Basappa Complex, 40/1A, Lavelle Road, Bangalore-1 with a copy to me.
Rajan Harpal, Dr. Ambedkar Smruti Sangahatan. Baragarh b, Sambalpur dt., Orissa – 768 028: We propose to build a memorial for the greatest Indian and the Father of our Nation, Babasaheb Ambedkar, as part of this Centenary Year. We need your support.
Bhayya Mahesh Kumar, Buddha Nagar, Karnataka Dalit Youth Trust, Chitguppa, Bidar dt., Karnataka- 585 412: Over 10,000 people gave a big reception to Ram Vilas Paswan and Prakash Ambedkar at Gulbarga on Dec. 17.
Satyanveshi, New Delhi: Of the 240 Central public sector undertakings there is not a single chairman or MD from the SC/ST/BCs. The sauama bosses don’t find the candidates from these groups “suitable” for higher positions. Officers from these don’t get promotion above the Dy. GM level. But the situation can be changed overnight if the Dalits become militant. Threats work very well with the savamas. Stoppage of Hindi broadcasts from AIR, Chandigarh and Jallandhar stations is a good example.
Gaurab Kumar Datta, Batanagar. W. Bengal: Political power will not come by begging. We have to seize it and to seize It we need strength which we can get by joining hands with other persecuted sections like Muslims, Sikhs. Christians, this alliance of SC/ST/ BCs and Muslims/Sikhs/Christians will put 85% of the Anaryan society before which the 15% Hindus will simply surrender. This formula given by you is the only solution to get power. The news of the growing Influence of Tamil Nadu’s PMK based on this formula Is a happy news. Babasaheb’s Three Commandments will be the best guide to acquire power. The Nazis will never allow the unity of the 85% Anaryan groups. If the Nazis come in the way of the country’s unity and Integrity, then armed struggle is necessary. DV is becoming a pathfinder.
Dewanand G. Meshram, President, Republican Students Fed., Agriculture College, Warora dt… Chandrapur, MS; Rs.30,000 received from by the Punjab Rao Krishi Vidyapith by our college in connection with the Dr. Ambedkar Centenary Celebrations and gold medals for all faculties have to be utilized properly.
Venkatesh, Bijapur, Karnataka: Sudras form the biggest chunk of the Hindu society. Rama killed Shambuka, a Shudra, and insulted the whole Sudra community and yet nobody in India has thought of building a memorial for Shambuka in this year of social Justice.
C.L. Buddha, principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya, No.1. Dekargaon. Sonitpur Dt., Assam -784 501: I have been transferred from Tezpur to this place. Earlier, I was transferred from Mysore to Orissa, then to Bihar and then to Tezpur. This is my fate being born an Untouchable.
Manoharan K., Bangalore: Karnataka’s powerful Dalit Minister Basavalingappa is reported to have said that Aryan invaders never built any temple in India. All the rock temples that we find all over the country are nothing but Buddhist temples. He gave the example of the famed Kadri Temple of Mangalore (D.K. Dt.) where he said he found the idol of Alokya Buddha when he visited the temple to test if that was a Buddhist one. Brahmins, he said, converted this into a Vishnu temple. The same people stole the Manjushi Idol and installed it at Dharmastala and renamed it as Manjunatha temple which now gets Rs.1 lakh Income a day from the visiting devotees. He said the different rock temples that he saw at Siddapur (N.K. dt.). Vijayanagar we are all Buddhist. Building rock temples are not known to Aryans, So, whenever we find a rock temple it is certain to be Buddhist. I want the DV to launch a struggle to recover all these temples from the Aryan aggressors and restore it to Buddhists.
P.R. Kuppurswamy, Advocate, Karur, TN: With ref. to Dr. E. Lingam’s letter (DV Dec. 16), he may refer to the AIR, Nagpur, 1972 for the Supreme Court Judgment saying that only the Brahmin shall be the temple priest, page no 1586 to 1598. Also 1973 Madras Law Journal, Supreme Court, p 58. Madras Law Weekly p.23 (short notes).
Kallara Sukumaran, convener, Bahujan Samaj Party, Kerala, Peermade-685 531: As part of the Dr. Ambedkar Centenary Year celebrations, BSP chief Kanshi Ram has just concluded the “Bharat Yatra” of Kerala. Starting from Kanyakumari on Dec.6, he will end up at Mhow, birth place of Babasaheb In MP. on April 14. During this 130-day tour he will spread the message of Babasaheb. From Dec. 14 to 17, he toured Kerala and received 67 public receptions from SC/ ST/BCs and Muslims. He made it clear that BSP is neither a Brahmin agent nor that of the Rajrishi.
Dharmeswar Hazarika, Transportation officer, HFC Ltd., Namrup, Asam.: I am being subjected to persecution being a SC. My promotion took nine years. If appeals fail, I will be compelled to go to court.
M. Naushad, Gaya, Bihar: I am opposed to the suggestion of some DV readers to convert it into a weekly. DV is not merely a magazine like the rest. It is a valuable journal of reference and documentation. Every sentence in DV needs careful and concentrated study so that it motivates the readers to propagate its message so that action follows to build up a people’s revolution against these upper caste Nazis. There Is need for sufficient gap of 15 days between two issues. So, it should remain a fortnightly. The Editor must have enough time to cooly ponder and come out with historic messages.
Arshad Kalliath, medico, Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala: DV is the herald of social revolution. As such, it must be sold through news agents here so that its message reaches a wider audience.
Student Islamic Movement, IN unit, Madras: We are holding our state unit conference at Madurai on Jan. 27 which we want you to address.
Mohd, Brahmin, Cochin, Kerala: Your thought- providing address to the Muslim Education Society seminar on Mandal Commission here on Dec. 23 was well received by the Muslim educationists who had gathered from all over Kerala. But your one remark that the Hindu Nazis are not against Muslims but only against SC/ST/BCs came as a shock to me. So also, many others In the Cochin Town Hall. We wanted to meet you and seek your clarification but by then you had left. Your remark made me to suspect you as a Nazi agent. I am a DV reader and still I got this doubt. That means those not familiar with your thoughts would be much more confused.
(Some other Muslims had also expressed the same doubt. This was because organizers of the meeting did not want a Malayalam translation of our speech. However, we request you to carefully study the editorial in this issue which deals with the very same subject in a more elaborate way. You may get it done into Malayalam and publish it. This edit is a very important piece and needs a very careful study – EDITOR
A.M. Ansari, 679 Anta, Shahjahanpur, UP-242 001: We are inspired by the example set by B.K. Nag and the Momin Society here has decided to go in for similar stickers to propagate secularism and communal harmony. We invite good slogans and the one selected as the best will get 100 stickers.
Ejaz Ahmed Ejaz, Chak Nagri. Post Katahan. via Mehsi, East Champaran, Bihar-845 426: A recent Issue of DV was given to me by a friend. I was so Influenced by it that I read it in a single sitting. DV is a new kind of journalism. Your observation that BCs are neither Sudra’s nor Hindus is a bigger bomb than the Mandal bomb. Your call that Muslims must support SC/ST/BCs in their struggle for Mandal is the right advice. Your fight for human rights needs wide support.
Ausaf Ahsan, Manipal, Karnataka: I was reading your book, Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar-Clash of Two Values, and a classmate (Bahraini) who saw it, borrowed the book and read it. After reading it he said the book took him to a new world of Indian history. Until he read your book, he had known only one leader, M.K. Gandhi. He had never heard of Dr. Ambedkar. This is the case with most foreign students in our medical college. He began discussing your book with other upper caste medicos. One said “Dr. Ambedkar’s second (Brahmin) wife was a girl friend of Nehru and that is why he brought up Dr. Ambedkar”. See the hatred against Dr. Ambedkar. My Bahraini friend’s curiosity grew more and he ordered a full set of your books.
S.M. Pasha, Madras: I met Palani Baba on Dec.7 at the Central Jall, Tiruchy, TN, where he is under detention (NSA) and conveyed your good wishes and the points you made in your recent Madras speech.
Dr. B. M. Siddique, New Delhi. Dalit-Muslim-Sikh unity is shaping up (DV Dec. 16, ’90 p.23). And you are the architect of it. You are uniting 85% of the country’s population and all SC/ST/BC and religious minority organization’s must honour you with a national award for promoting the country’s unity and integrity when the Nazi forces are doing their best to destroy the same. After having watched the Sikh struggle from close range, I feel that they are losing their battle against Brahminism. They can succeed only if they accept you as their adviser. With all their hatred for Brahminism, the Sikhs still have upper caste [Khatri and Jat) domination. They keep Hindu names, intermarry with Hindus and discriminate against Dalits. The most serious problem with the Sikhs is heart-of-heart they are anti-Muslim, and the Nazis know this. They tried their best during the Rajiv regime to engineer an Indo-Pak war so that the Sikhs are forced to fight the Muslims and that Sikhs are put back under Brahminical leadership. I want the top Sikh leadership to declare that Sikhs will fight and die for Dalits and Muslims.
Akhtar bin Umar, Shukat Maidan, Jambusar-392 150: Your advice for unrelenting dedicated efforts in the face of ruthless opposition (ref. Editor’s note on W.M. Oval’s letter, DV March 1, 90 p. 13) reminds me of the following passage from Turkish struggler for Faith Said Nursi’s biography: “Bediuzzaman lived for seven years (in detention) and continued to write and disseminate the Risale-t-Nur. Because he and his students were deprived of almost all kinds of freedom. They therefore, formed their own postal organization called “Nur Postmen” through which 60,000 copies of treatises were multiplicated by handwriting. I have also heard of the dead Iranian Shah’s satanic Savak used to keep a record of the owners of typewriters In order to check the propagation of Imam Khomeni’s revolutionary message. Surely, everything can be done through dedicated determination.
(This suggestion pertains to the sales network for DV in Bombay. If our readers in Bombay decide today within a month, they can arrange sale of 5,000 copies of DV if they follow the above suggestion. Where there is a will there is a way – EDITORI.
Robert Noronha, Bombay: DV has educated me. I was a Brahmin convert to Christianity and close to Konkani Brahmins. But DV changed me and made me go in search of the oppressed (Dalits). The DV analysis helped me to understand things correctly. Now I am convinced that a section of the upper castes (Nazis) is spreading their sickness and the country has to be saved from this sickness. But my fellow Catholics are so much steeped in Marxism that they are not able to understand things. I want to invite you to Bombay and give a brainwashing to our group here in Bandra.
[Christians were the first people to do so much for Dalits in recent history. If the Christians had not come to India, this would have been a jungle country, they gave us civilization and also taught us what is meant by nationalism and coached us to fight against the British who were also Christians. They very first president of the Congress Party that was engaged in fighting the British was a Christian. They did so much of research on Dalits, tribals. Entire Northeast Mongoloid tribals got a new life, Even the Brahminical literature was translated to English and made known to the world by a German. Unfortunately. all this good work done by the foreign missionaries and scholars has been undone by the upper caste Christian converts who are today monopolizing the enormous church property and positions, and suppressing the 80% Dalit Christians. We have dealt with this subject in our book, Christians & the Liberation of Dalits, DSA, 1987. The church leadership is refusing to accept our suggestion to provide reservations to SC/STs in church-run educational Institutions which are serving the upper castes. We had complained to the World Council of Churches, the Vatican and all foreign donor agencies against this Church discrimination against our people but the Church in India continues to firmly side with our oppressors. And some rare exceptions, like Bishop Azariah of Madras, India’s most famous Black theologian who Aght for our people, are subjected to character assassination by these very people – EDITOR)
Jangam Joseph, advocate, Hyderabad: DV is the only paper which appeals to the hearts of Dalits and lovers of Justice. The Director of Education was Inspecting a DEO office. A Dalit Christian and a Brahmin wrote an exam. The Brahmin got less marks but was appointed teacher. The Director asked the DEO why he did it. He replied: “Because is our man”. A Dalit Christian peon of a junior college died. His wife applied for a sweeper’s post which she must get as per rules. The principal told his clerk: “Don’t tell her the rule. She is a Christian”. This shows that a man who gives jobs on “merit” is not yet born in India. He will not be born in future. Such cases of discrimination are many. The upper caste Nazis enjoyed reservation for 2,000 years. The others should enjoy them for at least 1,000 years.
[India’s merit-mongers want only caste-based reservation in the temple archaka post which is a govt. job. Even the Supreme Court is upholding caste-based reservations in temples while striking down the same elsewhere. Bangladesh Muslims fought against the merit-based rule of Punjabi Muslims of Pakistan and got the country divided. If India’s upper caste merit-mongers don’t want to repeat such a thing in India they must see the writing on the wall. Over 95% of Indian population is opposed to “merit”. Read our book, Merit, My Foot, DSA 1988 – EDITORI.
M. Sukumar, Madras: I am a Telugu Dalit Christian and a great dmirer of your work. I read C.P. Thangaraj book advertised in DV. Robert de Nobel was the first to Introduce caste into the Indian church. He preferred only Brahmins for conversion. The Indian Christian population is about 5% but the census says it is 4.43%. This is because many Christians, particularly the Dalit Christians, register themselves as “Hindus” to avail the reservations. The Nazi elements in the govt. are conspiring to keep our population low.
(The Church has all the potential to grow into a revolutionary religion provided it is liberated from the clutches of upper caste Christians, we want many Black Bishops like Rev. Azariah. Church has vast funds but it is doing nothing to translate, print and publish Dr. Ambedkar literature into Indian languages. Even the World Council of Churches and other funding organizations are being misled by the church leadership, and the money that is coming to India is being jointly looted by the upper caste Christians and upper castes in the govt. Together they cat all the money in the name of Dalits and put down those genuine revolutionary forces that work for the liberation of Dalits. Fortunately, WCC’s PCR is taken over by committed Black leaders like N. Berney Pitayane, a Black theologian of repute, and they are seeing through this game played in India in the name of Dalit liberation. Nothing less than a major surgical operation can set right the church in India – EDITOR.]
Kaushal Kishore Mourya, Jabalpur: Your prediction that the VP govt. would be overthrown within a year has come true. This is because of VP Singh’s govt. order to Implement the Mandal Commission Report for the Backward Castes. Both anti-Mandal and anti- Masjid movements are led by anti-nationals and terrorists. The choice is between the Constitution of Indla framed by Dr. Ambedkar and the Constitution of Brahminism framed by Manu.
Miss Beena Joseph, Madras: Community Service Centre, Madras, had recently arranged a meeting on communal harmony. The meeting was attended by many of the intellectuals representing Christian. Muslim and Sikh communities. Dr.K. Rajaratnam, a noted Dalit Christian scholar and theologian, presided. Dr. S. Gopal, son of Dr.S. Radhakrishnan, Janab Mohammed Abdul All, Prince of Arcot, Dr.M. Azariah, India’s most famous Black theologian as well as the Bishop of Madras, N. Ram, Associate Editor of the Hindu, were the speakers. All the speakers especially Ram, Dr. Gopal and Bishop Azariah condemned the Aryan/savarna/Hindu communalism which is rocking the country and preaching hatred. Bishop M. Azariah was almost in tears referring to the prevailing hate atmosphere in India. He remembered his journey from Bangalore to Madras by train and his meeting with Chinmayananda who told the Bishop that there were no Christians in India. “There are only two sets of people in India: The Hindus and those who were Hindus”. The bishop was shocked to hear such a ridiculous and foolish statement from the former Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief. Bishop Azariah denounced the devilish forces engineered by the Aryan Savarna’s. Even the upper castes present could not but congratulate Bishop Azariah because of his deep concern and love for humanity which he said were more important than the Mandir or the Rama stones or the rath yatra. Bishop Azariah said that the language of love is gone from the face of India because of communal hatred. Will the Christian community produce more Black Bishops like Azariah to liberate
the church from Nazi hold?
Aravind Kamble, Pune: The anti-Narmada dam “environmentalists” are agitating against the dam not out of love for the lakhs of tribals who will be displaced by the dam but to build up the leadership of Baba Amte, a Brahmin. In the name of anti-Narmada agitations these upper caste “environmentalists” had trips to US a couple of times, and secured Jobs for many of their jatwals. But I am sure that the Narmada dam will be constructed despite all these (fake) opposition and the tribals will be displaced and the environment will be destroyed. Because the those wanting the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) and those opposing it are cousins. You have rightly said they quarrel during the day but sleep in the same bed at night. The Narmada controversy is raised to get a national award for Baba Amte and Medha Patkar. You have rightly warned: “Beware environmentalists”. Those who destroy the environment and those crying for it are the same people.
