Too big a Debate has begun on “DV closing down” (Letters are pouring in) but too little money has come (total Rs.3.37 lakhs) which will melt away in 3-4 months.
The most important thing the Debate revealed is that each person is good at complaining against the other. With some minor exceptions, they have nothing to say on what they have done to liberate this society from the enemy oppressor, so clearly identified in DV.
COMPLAINT BOX
At different meetings and in our correspondence when we pin down a person and ask him what he has done to the community, he opens his complaint box. And makes us think that it is because of others that he could not do anything. Who can save such people?
(1) In the early years of DV we suggested formation of “DV members club” in each big town and city so that members can meet and discuss the hot issues raised in DV. We regret to inform that not one member bothered to heed our request.
(2) Then we called for state- wise DV silver jubilee celebrations. Only UP, Orissa, Himachal, Punjab, AP Karnataka and Delhi responded. The turn out was not impressive.
Gujarat gave a shock: not even five members turned up confirming wholesale hinduisation of our people.
(3) Our members (with minor exceptions) failed to bring their wives/daughters/mothers despite specific request that without women no Dalit movement can succeed. Manuwadis are male chauvinist pigs (MCP) but our people are no less.
(4) In AP, Mala members opposed Madiga demand for separate reservation quota which DV supported. Brothers fighting brothers divided the Dalit movement itself.
(5) Muslims hardly took Interest in DV meetings – with minor exceptions. Then we asked reasons for Muslim boycott, we were told that some Dalits were with Hindu terrorist outfits despite telling that “Dalits are not Hindu and never Hindu”.
(6) Each member of DV should think DV belongs to him/her and promote its sales/introduce subscribers/order our books. But this is not done.
(7) Some members complained against DV writings on foreign affairs. Our enemy oppressors will be too happy if the Bahujans leave foreign affairs to Brahmins. In fact, only the three Brahminical parties Congress, BJP, CPM-CPI discuss foreign affairs. All Bahujan parties (BSP/ DMK/RJD/Akali Dal/Telugu Desam etc.) just don’t bother about foreign affairs – leaving the road free to the enemy.
S.N.D.T. UNIVERSITY MEETING IN BOMBAY
That doesn’t mean we have no exceptionally devoted members. Yes. We have a good number of them but most of them are poor. It is only the poor who think in this country.
At a meeting in the SNDT Women’s University, Bombay, upper caste women were so vocal in attacking the Editor. But the overwhelming Dalit DV members present never opened their mouth. Either they suffer from inferiority complex or afraid of the upper castes. In the presence of the Brahmin, they are so scared to open the mouth. By reading DV and our books for the past 30 years, our members should have become tigers. But we are disappointed. Quite number of them read very seriously, order every DSA book. But we don’t find any result after their reading. Are they reading for the sake of reading?
