Rahulan Ambewadekar, convener. Dalit Panthers of India, UP, Kanpur: DV is very good and useful to us. So also the books of Dalit Sahitya Akademy. We want to have all your literature.
R. L. Kain, gen. secretary, Delhi SC Welfare Assn.., Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi: We got a copy of the DV through Jugal Kishore and it made an interesting reading. It informs various development efforts all over India in regard to dalit movement. Our assn. has a library and large number of people make use of it. Therefore, we want to have DV and all your books.
Fr. Albert Nambiaparambil. Centre for Indian and Inter-Religious Studies. Rome, Italy: DV is keeping me in touch with the developments in India.
Dr. Velu Annamalai. Texas, USA: I have seen issues of DV and I find most important subjects discussed therein. I can say without hesitation that I have never seen any other publication of this quality, fighting for our people before. I also read seven books written by you. I am amazed at the amount of work you had done & the courage you have to put them on books. DV & your books will fill a great void. We have three major weekly journals run by Indians in this country. I have been fighting these journals run by casteist Hindus. After I read your books, I want to use your words in my fight against these communal press here. Please give me permission. Three of us are active. Dr. Laxmi Berwa, a medical doctor from Haryana, and Madhukar Kamble from Maharashtra. We send articles and letters to newspapers in India but none publish them. The story is the same here. All the press is in the hands of Hindus & Brahmins. Though I have come out of Hinduism, I am yet to decide where to go. I have been having the same question that you have raised in the Ambedkar & His Conversion. Dr. Berwa knows you. We are really excited to read your books, We want more of them.
Kazuhiro Usui, Fukuoka, Japan: We want to translate DV articles into Japanese to introduce them to our readers here. In March, we toured India & met many Dalit Panther leaders. During this fruitful tour & talks with dalits we realised the importance of DV not only to India but even Japan. DV is the only organised magazine for the dalit movement.
Y.L. Mingthing. Eastern Theological College. Jorhat. Assam: Thanks very much for making us aware of what goes on in the country through DV. I hope more people will learn to appreciate DV which bravely expresses truth. As for Zalieng. who speaks about his own tribal religion and who is given all publicity by the RSS. it is a voice from just one man who can’t get along with his own Naga people. Per- sons of his tribe whoever I meet & in- quired about him, simply laughed saying that ho is bit out of track.
Dr. T. Dayananandan Francis, gen, secretary. Christian Literature Society. Madras. The Tamil translation of your book, Why Go For Conversion? is on display in our bookshop. You can count on our full support. Your lectures & notes are of great help to us in our fight against communalism.
