Madras: The Tamil Nadu Dalit Voice silver jubilee celebration turned out to be a fiasco with not even 30 members of DV present on March 1. We did expect a low turnout knowing full well the terrible ideological confusion within the Dalits created by the Brahminical forces but never thought that it would turn out to be such a big fiasco.
Even the Madras city DV family members did not turn -proving our fears that entire Tamil Nadu has plunged into appalling confusion.
Rev. M. Azariah, our host, had made elaborate arrangements but the whole thing went waste. DV circulation itself in TN has suffered a steep fall.
However, the original people who started the Dalit movement turned up. They included R.mohan from Arkonam, Sampath Welcome, Advocate Rajgopal and
the only Muslim Buhari. Dalit movement was started in Madras around 1975 under the leadership of Dalit Ezhilmalai who later became the Union Health Minister. The Tamil edition of DV, named Dalit Kural edited by Ezhilmalai became popular. We used to have many well-attended meetings. But soon Brahminical saboteurs infiltrated the movement and diverted the attention of Dalit youths. It is very easy to destroy but takes decades to build
Dalit Voice has become so weak in the whole of TN that this was our first meeting. The fall of DV also proves the fall of the Dalits if not the fall of Tamil Nadu itself.
DV is, however, strong in othe
