The Dalit Sahitya Akademy is proud to launch the first inaugural issue of the Dalit Voice, the voice of the persecuted minorities of India, which is now registered as a newspaper. A dream come true, the Voice has raised the hopes and aspirations of many concious persons. And we are glad to inform that dalits, other persecuted minorities and their sympathisers in India & abroad have responded well to our call.
The yearly subscription is fixed at Rs 10 only considering the position of the revolutionary sections that patronise us. Single copy is priced at 50 paise.
Those who have not paid the subscription are requested to hurry up. If each reader introduces us to five more, it will only help reach the Voice to wider areas.
We pledge to serve the cause of the persecuted minorities and speak out the truth at any cost. We also pledge to keep out party politics and other groupism that is killing us; but at the same time fully subscribing to the revolutionary philosophy of Ambedkarism. We dedicate the journal to fight the “ruling class” of India. To us no single individual is our enemy. We are concerned with issues-primarily social, cultural and then economic-in that order. That is why the Voice shall prove to be an unique experiment in the high caste-class controlled Indian journalism.
We have a long way to go. Every new Issue of the Voice shall help us learn from experience. Readers should feel free to criticise and correct us considering the Voice as their own journal.
We request readers and other well-wishers to help us get advertisement which alone can sustain a publication. Advt. tariff shall be published shortly. News agents may kindly place orders and usual commission shall be given. We will do our best to propagate the philosophy of all those great revolutionaries who were responsible for India’s social change Mahatma Phule, Sri Narayana Guru, M. N. Roy, B. R. Ambedkar, Lohia, Periyar EVR and all other progressive thinkers. Rationalists & genuine Marxists and all those working for social change shall count on our support in their strugle. It is the Dalit Voice, the voice of the persecuted minorities yearning for revolution.
