Brother Ilaiah, a distinguished member of the DV family, is a rare honest intellectual in our sickening academic circles packed with upper caste mediocres. In fact, we should be proud that Dr. Ilaiah is a rareoasis in the expanding India’s Intellectual Desert, which is also the title of our latest book (DSA 1999). His speeches and writings have made the oppressed people of India think. And thinking is the only thing the upper caste rulers will never allow, never tolerate. Hence this efforts to sap the up-and- coming star on the Bahujan intellectual horizon. The more the enemy tries to tarnish the star the greater it will shine. The brahminical Osmania University authorities are warned – EDITOR
