Upper caste rulers have devised many methods to enjoy at the cost of the deprived sections of India. One such favourite pastime is “studying the extent of poverty of India’s poor”. How poor are India’s poor? To study this “poverty”, they have set up hundreds of institutions, projects, created special posts. And they are all well-funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi – Itself an upper caste outfit – and the Govt. of India and State Governments. We have hundreds of such institutions, of course with different names but all of them engaged in “seriously” studying how poor are India’s poor, why they are poor, how they are poor and from when they are poor. And if they are “really poor” how to bring these people “below the poverty line” above this line. After making “deep research” into their poverty, these upper caste “scholars” and “researchers” publish their think-tank-thesis and get awards and rewards. Once their “thought-provoking findings” are published, they get lot of “appreciation” and the authors are “honoured for their great service to India’s poor,” and soon they are invited to western countries to deliver a lecture on the “magnitude of Indian poverty”. And instantly they become “eminent” and “internationally reputed scholars”. Of course, with fabulous earnings. By studying the poverty of India’s “poor”, they become rich while the subject of their study, the “Indian poor”, remain poor. But what happens to their precious “findings”? Hundreds and thousands of such “findings” are dumped in the storeroom, gathering dust. As these “great research works” rest there, the “poor get poorer”. So, this “poverty study” is a big business in India. Such research is called searching a non- existing black cat in a dark room closing the eyes. This has become the latest upper caste fad. This fad’s other name is social science research. This is how the upper caste rulers have been fooling us and enjoying at our cost. And the pigs are getting fatter and fatter.
That is why we have been now and then repeating that enough studies and researches have been made on “India’s poor”. The time has come to put a stop to such wasteful research. The garbage must be set on fire as it has started stinking. We have elaborated our thinking on India’s social science research and our bogus social scientists in our editorial, “Why the upper castes don’t love India?” (DV July 1, 1988).
There has been a tremendous explosion in the number of such “poverty studies” and institutions that sponsor it and “scholars” that manufacture it. Who is paying
SALUTE TO SADDAM
The Gulf War has temporarily ended with military victory for none though the western white racists and their drummer boys in India are gloating over the “American victory”. But the verdict of history will be different. When the world’s richest, mightiest and the most arrogant countries are collectively pounding one poor country, it cannot be called a war. A war can be only between equals. This is a global gang up of imperialists, racists, zionists to impose their New World Order and eliminate the chief obstacle, namely the Muslims, on its way. And in this unequal war, Saddam Hussain, who has already achieved the political victory, put up a very herioc fight winning the hearts of the entire oppressed of the world. The American Juggernaut driven by its zionist engine wanted to impose the Euro-American imperialism and the entire oppressed of the world, the victims of this Order, found in Saddam a Saviour who effectively gave a bloody nose to the aggressors. Thus, the global gangsters very first attempt to gobble up the Muslims met with its defeat at the hands of Saddam. That is why the oppressed Muslims, Blacks and India’s Black Untouchables salute Saddam. After this humiliating defeat America has become like that wounded tiger. And it is certain to pounce again on the Gulf goaded by its zionist ring master. The greatest blessing of this Gulf War is it taught a lesson to the pro- American corrupt Muslim regimes. The Muslim masses in these countries boiling with anger are sure to react. All revolutionary forces in the world, Muslim masses, Blacks and Black Untouchables should get ready for the second attack by this wounded tiger.
for these poverty studies? Of course, the “poor”. Who are the “poor”? But who are these “poor”? Even a person with no brain, no eyes can say that India’s so-called “poorest of the poor” are none other than the Untouchables. Officially called Scheduled Castes. But these “poverty researchers” are fighting shy to name the “poor”? Because the moment they identify the “poor”, their game stands exposed. That is why they hide the identity of the “poor”. Because when it is disclosed that these “poor” are none other than the SCs or STs, immediately a question will be asked: how these SC/STs have remained “poor” despite spending billions and billions of rupees on different “poverty eradication” programmes? The upper caste bluff balloon will be burst.
These upper castes/Hindus/Aryans/savarnas have swallowed all the money allotted to the “economic development” of the SC/STs and after eating the entire funds they again come to our people to find out how our people have remained poor. They are doing this research – searching the non-existing black cat in a dark room closing the eyes – to hide their frauds against the SC/ST/BCs. And who is paying for these “poverty studies”? Again, our people. Can we find any such set of black-hearted blackguards in any part of the world? What will be their fate if our people come to know these frauds. They will be simply lynched. All these pompous “poverty studies” financed by us must now stop – immediately. And if they don’t stop this tamasha, we must get it stopped. SC/ STs have woken up. They can no longer suck our blood. We refuse to give our blood for the leeches to drink. The time has come to blast off these blood-suckers styling themselves as researchers and research institutions.
WANTED COCKROACH- KILLERS
(our correspondent)
Bangalore: Our ruling class can be compared to that dirty, ubiquitous creature called cockroach. You put any amount of poison to destroy this creature, it will eat that very poisonous stuff itself and get fatter and multiply. They feed on anything and everything. Their very presence is repulsive, nauseating. Anything the cockroach smells become nauseating. Anything it touches becomes dirty.
The latest to become dirty and a total flop by the touch of these cockroaches is our much-publicised “family planning drive” as we can make out from this report:-
Dr. Ashish Bose, a noted economist, said on Feb.8, that family planning strategies need to be reviewed as the programme had completely failed in the country. Delivering a talk on India’s population in the 1990s at the Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity (DAVP), he said if the family planning programme was to be made a success it was not enough just to have a poster campaign but the entire approach needed to be changed. He said in India family planning problem had erroneously come to be regarded as sterilisation programme. It was felt that sterilisation was the only way to achieve family planning. Yet surveys had showed that most people went in for sterilisation after they had few children, in many cases two sons at least. (Hindustan Times,Feb. 9).
The ruling class used the enormous funds earmarked for family planning to its benefits. Like that dirty cockroach, the FP has been left high and dry. Cockroaches became fatter feeding on the FP funds. But the FP failed. Whose father’s what goes?
Like the FP, anything these cockroaches touch become dirty and nauseating. Every plan, every scheme has become a failure while the funds meant for it went straight into the ever-hungry stomach of this cockroach. How to destroy this cockroach? Is there no anti-cockroach medicine at all?
What are the mountains of research stuff they produce – mostly copying from earlier researches – either plagiarizing or rehasing another gutter stuff? We must dump all these nauseating stuffs back into the gutter. Goodbye to “poverty studies”.
Our problem is not “poverty”: We have to tell them point blank that SC/ST/BC problems are not poverty. Our people are kicked, killed, burnt, raped and our little property destroyed – not because we are poor. If “poverty” is the cause of our oppression, why the upper caste “poor” are not subjected to this oppression? Are there no “poor Brahmins”? If so, why he is not persecuted? That proves that poverty is not the cause of our persecution. The reason is different. The reason is that we are racially different from the Hindu/upper castes. They are Aryans and we are Dravida’s or Adi-Dravida’s – the original inhabitants of India. This is the cause. Not poverty.
India’s problem is not poverty. Our human rights are snatched away. Our political share has been looted, our dignity, our personality crushed, our identity lost. Our roots destroyed. That is our problem. Not poverty. Poverty is the byproduct of denial of our human rights. Will you stop fooling us?
Delhi Telephone Directory: If you look into the Delhi Telephone Directory you will find all these “research institutions” – bed bugs – dotting the length and breadth of the capital. There must be over 100 such all-India institutes in Delhi – both in private and govt. sector.
They organize lavish seminars with two objectives:
- To please their clients and financiers and also to provide a kushy time to their jatwalas in five-star luxury hotels. Two or three days of meetings with eating’s.
- And then to spot any person who is trying to endanger the upper caste exploiters and devise appropriate means to finish them. That is why we have stopped attending these seminars. It is all a waste of time.
When we make such a statement, we should not be accused of making “a sweeping generalization”. If there are exceptions that only proves the rule. The only thing we can be accused of is we have not heard or seen any such exceptions. Under the existing oppressive socio-economic system, it is difficult to survive doing honest research because nobody is prepared to fund such honest research. Because hundreds of allegations would have been made against such an honest institution that even honest foreign funding agencies would be sacred to come anywhere near it.
Dalit Sahitya Academy work: We have our own example of the Dalit Sahitya Academy which is the only organization of its kind in the whole country. To this day ICSSR, which is well aware of its existence, has not come forward to fund this Dalit research and publication organization. The only reason is that ours is a Dalit research organization doing honest work. Had we been also fake, ICSSR would have obliged us. That is why we say the whole thing is sickening and all this research, and poverty research in particular, is downright fraud. This must stop.
Irrelevant research: This research has become a luxury. This “poor” country cannot afford this luxury of research which has no relevance to the people. On the other hand, these researchers are diverting the attention of the victims of the “poverty” from issues to non-issues. Our problem is identity, dignity, human rights. But our disease has been wrongly diagnosed as “poverty”. That is why we say these researchers are blackhearted. Their intention is clear.
But more than that these” researchers” with their high-level contacts in the international fields particularly with the different units of the UN are misguiding them. These foreign funding organizations are told that India’s problem is “poverty”. And they give funds to search this non-existing black cat in the dark room closing the eyes. These upper castes/hindus/Aryans/savarnas have been searching this cat knowing full well that this cat is not there and thereby beautifully fooling the country and the foreign funding people. This must be stopped.
Victims of development: We also want to draw attention to yet another havoc played by these blood- suckers. The name of their game is called “development”. Whose development? They formulate “development schemes” and say that these “development schemes” are meant to “develop the poor”. But all over India, it is these “poor people” – meaning the SC/ST/BCs and Muslims – who have become the victims of their “development schemes”. Narmada Valley Project is the latest example of one such havoc. All our five-year plans meant to remove our “poverty” has actually increased our poverty. In the name of development, these upper caste do-gooders have developed themselves. The upper castes cannot “develop” our people because they don’t love our people. One cannot “develop” another person without loving that person or “loving” that “development work”. This “development” is yet another upper caste fraud to fleece us and keep us enslaved. This must drop.
We now have some militant sections among our people – SC/ST/BCs and Muslims/Christians and Sikhs – in’ almost every institution. They may not be holding important positions. But they are in a position to watch, understand and analyze this highway robbery going on in the name of research and development. They should fight it out. And to fight it, they must become tigers. Then only they can roar and frighten the upper castes. They can also directly write to us all about these frauds committed in the name of research and development. By the end of this century all this fraud must end. And our people must capture these research work and bend it in our favour.
