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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Marxist HEGEMONY and the Language of RELIGION: To Be Or Not To Be GIRAFFE


Marxist HEGEMONY and the Language of RELIGION: To Be Or Not To Be GIRAFFE 

 

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    Thanks SHRIJAT!
     
    Thanks ANANDA BAZAR PATRIKA!
     
    Pl see:
     
     
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    After all, as Mahashweta Debi writes for me, I am a KUMAUNI Bengali who belongs to UTTARAKHAND.
     
     I am habitual to relate POLITICS to ECONOMICS thanks to my background of SEVENTIES.
     
     I understand the Nationality affair very well.
     
     But I never could DIAGNISE the Language of RELIGION practiced by Marxist hegemony in West Bengal!
     
    SHRIJAT, the Latest POETRY ICON in Bengal has quoted the SENOR MOST Bengali Poet living, himself no less than a LEGEND, SHANKHO GHOSH before he wrote his first line in FRONT page article published in ANANDA BAZAR PATRIKA, the largest circulated Bengali newspaper which showed a COMPLETE TURNAROUND to discard BUDDHA BRAND and stands with CONG TMC Alliance in Bengal!
     
    SHANKHO GHOSH has written:
     

    RAATE GHUMOBAAR

     AAGE

    BHALOBASAAR

    AAGE PRASHNO KORO

    KOAN DAL TUMI

    KOAN DAL
     
    SHRIJAT thus described very well the VERTICAL DIVIDE in between the INTELLIGENTSIA Bengal as well as CIVIL society! He suffers from the HAMLET DILEMMA to be or not to be a GIRAFFE ! At last and why, at first he emphasises that he does NEVER oblige the Language of RELIGION , but he is not going to be a GIRAFFE !
     
    He wrote:
     
    DHARMER BHASHA MAANI NAA, TAAI BOLE GIRAFFEO AAMI NEI!
     
    Mind you, SHRIZAT, no where mentioned either the RULING Marxist Hegemony or the Resistance hegemony led by Ms Mamata Bannerjee, joined by a section of Intelligentsia and Civil society!
     
    SHRIJAT walked with all of us, the Intelligentsia, Civil society and the Masses to PROTEST NANDIGRAM GENOCIDE! But his face is MISSING from  the Hoardings of CHANGE WANTED which included , of course, the faces of MAMATA SHANKAR and SUMAN MUKHOPADDHYAYA who protested and emphasised on the RIGHT of an INDIVIDUAL!
     
    SHRIJAT highlights the SOVEREIGNTY of an Individual and demands a NO Man`s land for Freedom of EXPRESSION so no body should be BRANDED as PARTISAN for what he speaks or writes.
     
    Most significant PHRASE , SHRIJAT as an EXPERT of Poetic Aesthetics and RHETORIC as well as DICTION, uses, happens to be DHARMER BHASHA, the Language of RELIGION!
     
    My God! What the Young poet has written and ANANDA BAZAAR has Highlighted.
     
    Well, it is not POLITICS!
     
    Even it is also not limited within the Border of Economics of Politics or Materialist Analysis of History or the DIALECTICS!
     
    It is RELIGION which turns into HEGEMONY!
     
    Hindutva may be the religion of RSS!
     
    ECONOMIC REFORMS and ILLUMINATI Dictations may be the SACRED SCRIPT of CONGRESS!
     
    But the MARXISTS do PRACTICE the Language of RELIGION as POLITICS, terming it BANGLA NATIONALITY and COLONISES the SUBJECT which has no RIGHT to FOREDOOM.
     
    YOU have to SUPPORT the ways of MARXIST RULING Hegemony otherwise you would be BRANDED as GIRAFFE !
     
    Meanwhile, FRESH Newsbreak from NEPAL HERALDS further TURMOIL as far as maoism is concerned!

    Key party quits Nepal's coalition govt in protest over Katawal's sacking! India once again CAUGHT UNAWARE RED HANDED as it happened regarding Srilankan Developents resutatnt in TAMIL EXODUS and Ethnic Cleansing!

     

    I have always been writing about the ONE EYED DOE Indian foreign policy!

     

    Minister of Foreign Affairs PRANAB Mukherjee is the KEY man in Govt.of India, working as DE FACTO Prime Minister!

     

    The Bengali KAYSTHA BRAHAMIN from BIRBHOOM and engaged into the DUST and heat of Jangipur, Murshidabad, heads dozens of Parliamentary Committes. He was the chairman of Parliamntary Standing Committe which passed Dual Citizenship Amendment Bill 2003 without any hearing whatsoever during NDA Tenure. Then HOME MINISTER, another REFUGEE from SIND, presented the BILL in the House with a TARGET to deport more than FIVE Corore partition victims from India as well as DUAL CITIZENSHIP for NRIs to sustain ILLUMINATI Rule in India. Manmohan, then a Rajya sabha MP as well as Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhuri opposed the BILL and demanded CITIZENSHIP for all Partition Victims! But Becoming PRIME MINISTER, Manmohan Singh lost the sympathy for the REFUGEES and the BILL was ENACTED with CONG, BJP and LEFT support without any discussion . Even, the SC, ST, OBC and Minority memebers supported the Ruling manusmriti Hegemony!

     

    Being Bengalies, Pranab as well as the BENGALI marxists betrayed the PARTITION VICTIMS once again!

     

    How may we EXPECT any SYMPATHY for Either DRAVID or Tamil nationality from the TRI IBLIS satanic AXIS of ADWANI, Pranab abd BUDDHA! They allowed the ETHNIC Cleansing in SRILANKA!

     

     We all know how Goverment of India handled the NEPAL Policies!

     

    The Manusmriti Hegemony tried its best to defend the MONARCHY and MISERABLY failed!

     

    They transformed Indian Ocean Peace one into a WAR ZONE with INDO US Nuclear Deal and Strategic Realliance in US and ISRAEL lead!

     

    We all know how AMERICA tried and Failed to stop the Maoists to ABOLISH the MONARCHY!

     

    Meanwhile, CIA and MOSSAD got the control all over the SUB CONTINENT. Thys have bases in the remote areas under cover of religion or NGO!

     

    I have posted you the DOCUMENTATION of EVIDENCES which prove CIA and MOSSAD EXECUTED MUMBAI carnage to destablise India as well as PAKISTAN.

     

    But the language of RELIGION remains the same and its BRAHAMINICAL as well as ZIONIST always spoken in US, Corporate , Illuminiti interest!

     

    Indian Marxists failed to assess the Realities GLOBAL as well as Local. If they do understand, they defend the LPG mafia and genocide culture. Thus Indian Marxists are alienated from Marxists worldwide and RESISTANCE worldwide just because they fail to understand the language of Equality, Justice and Freedom as the speak the Language of Religion.

     

    In Tripura,Marxists FOLLOW ANUKUL THAKUR and in Bengal they follow Harichand Thakur Guruchand Thakur.

     

    Marxists have made Hindu Rituals like DURGA PUJA, kali Puja CULTURAL affiar and justify the trend as POSING SECULAR and PROGRESSIVE. They Converted Bangla nationalism and language the best tools of COLONIALISM, mass destruction, Cultural RAGGING, ethnic Cleansing and MONOPOLISTIC AGRESSION against Indigenous aboriginal minority communities!

     

    Thus, Marxists alike the Government of India  and the MINISTRY of FOREIGN Affairs headed by PRANAB have become theAMBASSADERS of BRAHAMINICAL System Global and Manusmriti apartheid Rule keeping in mind the ELECTORAL equations with CLUBBING Castes and communities BRAIN WASHED with the Language of RELIGION once again.

     

    Maoists ABOLISHED MONARCHY as well as HINDU RASHTRA! Not only RSS but Indian Marxist Brahmins never could DIGEST it!

     

    Thus, PRANAB had NEVER been INVOLVED in Nepal Crisis. The AXIS of ADWANI BUDDHA PRANAB are only interested in SUSTENANCE of the HEGEMONY!

     

    Officials say in Kathmandu a key political party has quit Nepal's coalition government to protest the prime minister's decision to fire the army chief. The general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) announced the party's withdrawal. It was the second largest party in the coalition government.

     

    Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist rebel leader, sacked army chief Rookmangud Katawal on Sunday after accusing him of defying government orders.

     

    Nepal Premier Prachanda on Sunday fired army chief Gen Rukmanga Katawal for defying government orders but he shot back rejecting the decision, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis despite repeated calls from India for a rapprochement.

     

    61-year-old Gen Katawal was sacked as he had disobeyed government's instructions, the PM's Press Adviser Om Sharma said, shortly after the decision was taken at a special cabinet meeting chaired by Prachanda and boycotted by four key constituents of the Maoists-led government. Lt Gen Kul Bahadur Khadka, the number two in the army and a confidant of Prachanda, was immediately named as acting army chief to replace Gen Katawal, who was to retire after three months.

     

    "The Army Chief was removed because he failed to give satisfactory explanation on why the government orders were ignored," Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told reporters.

    Gen Katawal, however, declined to step down, according to media reports. He called an emergency meeting of top Generals at the Army Headquarters, private radio Nepal FM reported. The Maoist government's decision came despite domestic and international calls against such a move, including from India.

     

    India earlier repeatedly conveyed its concerns to Nepal over the Maoists-led government's plans to sack Gen Katawal. After returning from a whirlwind trip to New Delhi, Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood met Prachanda on April 26, their fourth meeting in 10 days amid Army-government stand-off here. The Maoists' move came a fortnight after they served an ultimatum to Gen Katawal, seeking his clarification on recruitments by military, its "hastiness" in reinstating eight generals retired by the government and its decision not to participate in the National Games.

     

    He had furnished his reply contending that he had not disobeyed the government's directives on removing eight generals and halting recruitment in the military.

     

    Following the Government's decision to fire him, a defiant Gen Katawal said the Prime Minister had no authority to remove him, the private radio said. The Cabinet meeting was boycotted by ministers belonging to four coalition partners, including the second largest constituent CPN-UML. Others who boycotted belonged to Madhesi People's Rights' Forum, Sadbhavana Party and CPN-United.

    The ministers from the four parties walked out of the meeting in protest soon after Prachanda proposed sacking the army chief, said Sunil Manandhar, General secretary of CPN-United, a member of the ruling five-party alliance.

     

    Prachanda made the proposal despite opposition from other parties, he said, adding the Maoists got into self isolation by making the unilateral decision -- which needs the endorsement from the President.

     

    During the meeting of the High Level Political Mechanism, the Prime Minister was advised by the Maoists' coalition partners not to make the decision in a hurry but he did not listen, Manandhar said. The government has forwarded the Cabinet decision to sack the army chief to President Ram Baran Yadav, who is yet to endorse it.

     

    President Yadav is currently busy consulting legal experts and political leaders on the matter.

     

     Unless the President endorses the Prime Minister's decision, it will not come into effect, legal experts said. According to sources, Gen Katawal was inside the army headquarters and discussing the matter with the top Generals. Main opposition Nepali Congress and 16 other political parties had for long been opposing the Maoists' plans to remove the army chief.

     

    Soon after the Cabinet took the decision, there were reports of rallies here both in favour and against the move to sack the army chief. Nepal Students Union affiliated to opposition Nepali Congress organised protest shows in front of various colleges against the Maoists' decision to sack the army chief.

     

    Maoist-affiliated students and cadres of Young Communist League also demonstrated welcoming the decision. Security personnel have been deployed at various sensitive areas to maintain law and order amid reports that Maoists were burning tyres and blocking roads.

     

    Nepali Congress acting President Shushil Koirala, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and leader of Terai Madhesh Democratic Party Mahanta Thakur met President Yadav and discussed the latest political situation. Nepali Congress has also convened an all-party meeting, excluding Maoists, to discuss the situation emerging out of the sacking of the army chief.

     

    CPN-UML too is holding a crucial meeting of its Standing Committee to come out with a stand on the matter while the Maoists are engaged in internal discussions.

     

    The Maoists' unilateral decision to sack the army chief was made with "ill intention" and was "illegal", said constitutional lawyer Dinesh Tripathi. This may derail the peace process and obstruct the Constitution drafting, he said. Since the government itself is in minority, the decision can be questionable on legal grounds, Tripathi said.

     

     

     

    My dear friends, we must be thankful to SHRIJAT and ANAND BAZAR PATRIKA as we have come to know the Politics in INDIA as the LANGUAGE of RELIGION in which Speaking, Writing , behaving freely and sovereign may BRAND any one GIRAFFE!

     

    For me, the experience is STUNNING!

     

    I may not VOTE for EITHER UPA or NDA led by RSS!

     

    I must be GLAD with the Emergence of THIRD FRONT in power!


    I also criticise the Capitalist ways of Indian Marxists, Hypocrisy of CLASS STRUGGLE and REVOLUTION, BRAHAMINICAL leadership and ENSLAVEMENT of majority Aboriginal,Indigenous and Minority communities and the GENOCIDE CULTURE of Ruling Marxist hegemony in Bengal!

     

    But the COMPULSION of Indian Politics and ECONOMY demands INITIATIVE and RESURGENCE of MARXIST RESISTANCE!

     

     But Marxists are HABITUAL in Betrayals, BLUFFS, Demographic Readjustment, Bargaining, ECONOMISM in Trade Union Movement, Compromises, Coalition anti People as they supported to sustain the LPG RULE for four and half years, EVADED the RESPONSIBILITY to lead Anti Imperialist Anti Fascist Movement and Anti LPG Mafia movement RATHER they adopted Capitalist ways of DEINDUSTRIALISATION, ETHNIC CLEANSING, GENOCIDE CULTURE, Indiscriminate land acquisition, Promoter Builder Raj, Chemical PCPIR HUB, SEZ, Nuclear park and RETIL CHAIN!

     

    How may we support this BLOODY Language of RELIGION meant to sustain MANUSMRITI APARTHEID ZIONIST TR IBLIS ILLUMINATI RULE !

     

    More over, this language of RELIGION is forced by the REGIMENTED GESTAPO as well as the ICONS like Sunil Gangopaddhyaya, Debesh Roy, Mrinal sen, Saumitra Chattopaddhyaya, Usha Ganguli, JALES and PRALES!

     

    Mahashweta Di has been warning against EVM being turned into CPIM!

     

    Bangla statesman is publishing articles by the ICONS of Resitsing Intellectuals daily while GANASHAKTI, 24 GHANTA TV CHANNEL and DAINIK AAJKAL publish and BROAD CAST Different Versions.

     

    I do understand that CPIM and the Left party have already won the Political War ousting Congress as well as BJP.

     

     This is resurgence of Nationalities and Identities!

     

    This is DECENTRALISATION of Power against the CURRENT Centralisation of Power!

     

    The Marxists are STRATEGICALLY POISED to accomplish the UPHILL TASKS of FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES in Politics as well as Economy.

     

     Two party political system of the RULING Hegemony is going to be destroyed .

     

    Thus, the RULING Intelligentsia, TOILET papers and media, policy Makers happen to be on their TOES to CONVINCE the LEFT as well as the UPA to strike a DEAL to SUSTAIN the CONTINUITY of so called ECONOMIC reforms, Brahamin Bania  Raj, LPG MAFIA and Manusmriti Apartheid Zionist Tri Iblis Illuminati RULE in the DIVIDED Bleeding Geopolitics South Asia!The EMPHASISE REMAINS to SIDE LINE Mayawati and SUBALTERN TURN to Indian REALITY!

     

    I know, perhaps, my Marxist friends would prove me wrong, the LEFT, so habitual in Political Blunders and betrayals may well  opt to OBLIGE the ILLUMINATI and would DUMP Mayawati for anyone !


     We NEVER know who would emerge as the NEXT Prime Minister of India other than the  main THREE Contenders MANMOHAN, ADWANI and Mayawati!

     

    It may be BUDDHADEB as well!

     

    May be DEVEGAUDA would be INVOKED from the GARBAGE.

     

    May be some one picked from the RECYCLE BIN!

     

    May be Naveen Patnaik!

     

    SHARAD PAWAR!

     

    NITISH KUMAR!

     

    Or J JAILALITA!

     

    But I am AFRAID, this time the LEFT is sure to PULL Down MAYAWATI as they PULLED the Shudra Kayastha , JYOTI BASU!

     

    Once again the Bengali and Malayali Marxists have joined hands. I won1t be surprised if they decide someone like SITARAM YECHURI or Prakash Karat himself!

     

    And this is the Rhetoric and Aesthetics of the LANGUAGE of RELIGION!

     

    Indian ECONOMY is COUPLED with CORE US ECONOMY despite the DECOUPLTION claim!

     

    FIIs and FDI have the Ultimate Control of the ECONOMY. False RECESSION hype jsutified the ECONMIC MANIPULATION and SATYAM ASATYAM REALITIES. Now they have created another HYPE of BLACK Money! We all know now about DEFENCE KICKBACKS and Swiss Bank accounts!

     

    We witnessed how NUKE DEAL was Auto OPERTIONISED and only then the LEFT wthdrew support from UPA. But the COALITION is DEFULT as no leader of either LEFT or UPA inform the MASSES about ECONOMIC and Foreign affairs. they discuss only POLITICS and engage in WFF for EYE Washing! We also know how NDA saved UPA GOVT and NUKE Deal subverting the issues and highlighting Hindutva once again.

     

    Genuine ISSUES are quite ABSENT in POLL Exercise. It is HATE Speech and only hate SPEECH delivered in the Language of Religion!

     

    Mayawati was STOPPED!

     

    And Mayawati have to be STOPPED once again. This is the agenda!

     

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      WE ARE DEEPLY WORRIED

      How to make slaves enjoying their slavery to get angry & fight Brahminical oppressors?

      After about 30 years of running Dalit Voice, having circulation in every part of India, also visited and interacted with our DV family, we fully agree with the thrust of Brother Ayyankali's scathing attack on us. (See below the Editorial: DV failed to inspire people to fight Brahminism).

      If one is an honest intellectual, she or he has to accept such equally honest criticisms in the interest of the movement one is leading. Dalit Voice is not a business but a mission. Having been in this mission for the past 30 years, we have ever so many times confessed how we have converted our "blood into sweat" and yet with no result. Alas, our people are in deep, eternal coma.

      Advice to revolutionaries: We don't know who said it, whether Mao or Lenin: a revolutionary leader should not run too fast. He will go out of sight of those following who will get perturbed on missing the leader. He should lead and run fast enough and yet be within their sight.

      This may not be the exact quotation but sums up the thought. May be the "Father of India", Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, was guided by such a thought.

      Dr. Ambedkar first thought of reforming Hinduism (Brahminism) but when its owners rejected any reform, he launched the second phase of confrontation by establishing Untouchables as a separate entity outside Hinduism.

      Poona Pact: The Brahmins then set up the cunning Bania, M.K. Gandhi, who got bloated when Big Brahmin leaders approached him to save their Hinduism from Dr. Ambedkar's onslaught, namely "separate electorate", which would set about 30% of the slaves (SC/ST) of India against them.

      Here also Babasaheb failed when Gandhi resorted to his famous bogus fasting stunts.

      The "Poona Pact" (1932) finally sealed the fate of Untouchables and made them part of Hinduism. The constitutional reservations to SC/ST offered in place of separate electorate helped the Brahmins to convert them into obedient Hindus and their slaves.

      Unity with Muslims: The credit for saving Hinduism, therefore, goes solely to Gandhi — and not the Hindu terrorist RSS.

      Dr. Ambedkar then thought he could join hands with Muslims so that the country's two single largest communities could together defeat the common enemy — the Brahminical saboteurs. But by then Gandhi and his Brahmin followers had generated country-wide anti-Muslim poisoning which whipped up so much of hatred and violence leading to many bloody anti-Muslim riots. M.A. Jinnah who was then in the Congress Party got so much disgusted that he started demanding Pakistan. Dr. Ambedkar opposed partition but by then it was too late.

      As soon as the country got partitioned (1947), the hard core Brahminical terrorists shot dead M.K. Gandhi who did so much to Brahmins and made them the unquestioned leaders of the land. Brahminical strategies and tactics were superb.

      Heart broken: Dr. Ambedkar by then was too disgusted, old and crippled health-wise. He had none to look after him except his hostile Brahmin second wife.

      He had given all the warnings he could to the Brahminical leaders but they simply dismissed him.

      After getting convinced that Brahminism could never be repaired, he decided to quit the poison-filled Hindu house and take his people to the liberating Budhism. And soon he died - or killed?

      There is no point in blaming the enemy. The enemy will do whatever in its interest. His own people betrayed Babasaheb by refusing to follow him to Budhism. Some "educated" Dalits even turned against him.

      Brahminism killing India: History has given its verdict that Dr. Ambedkar is independent India's greatest revolutionary philosopher. And the country's tallest titan. But the Brahmins have killed this revolution and thereby killed the country also. What do they care for India?

      A second Babasaheb will not be born in "independent" Brahminical India.

      The role played by our Brahminical marxists is yet another shameful chapter of our history.

      So much so India is neither living or dead. It is brain-dead.

      Closing down DV: When this is the actual historical reality of India what can we do? How many times we have expressed our disgust. We even announced closing down DV. (DV Edit May 16, 2007: "Sunset over Dalit World? Editor seeks permission to close down Dalit Voice").

      Every "educated" Dalit is injected with Brahminical poison. And he is in a state of coma.

      Raging counter-revolution: Before a revolution begins, the country or a society will develop a "revolutionary situation". We know every part of India. What we see here is not a "revolutionary situation" but a first-rate counter-revolutionary movement. There is not even one political party pledged to bring about a revolution. In fact the country's constitution itself blocks development of any genuine revolutionary movement.

      If an individual or a group shows signs of revolutionary tendencies, immediately all efforts are made to corrupt and co-opt its ring leaders. That is the end. The rulers have set in place an array of police, paramilitary and military forces to keep watch and pounce only our people.

      Many such attempts to corrupt and co-opt were made on us but we resisted. But what one single person can do? Revolution is not a tea party.

      Dalit youth corrupted: Brahminical forces know that the country's most explosive elements are the Untouchables. All-out efforts are being made to do the fire-fighting. They keep a watch on the up and coming Dalit youth and see to it that they are recruited to a political party or an NGO. Both are sure path to living death. Some revolutionary youth are there but they are brainwashed to fight their own brothers. Divide and rule.

      Marrying Brahmin girls: Brighter and more influential Dalits join govt. services through reservation and marry fair-skinned Brahmin girls or pushed to corruption and then caught. The govt. service in a way also helps the ruling class to get the fellow co-opted to the system.

      Retired govt. servants are not only retired but also tired. They easily fall into the trap of the Marwari Goenka and suffer a living death in his Vipassana meditation. Babasaheb Ambedkar's Budhism has been corrupted and reduced to nothing but idol worship. What a tragedy?

      When Dalits turn revolutionary: There is another side of the picture that brings us real shock. The SC/ST/BCs may be lifeless, starving, devoid of all revolutionary fervour and least interested in hitting back at those drinking their blood.

      But these very "cowardly" fellows once got recruited by the Hindu terrorist forces like Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, Rama Sena and such other lumpen crackpots they become really ferocious, uncontrollable and blood-thirsty.

      Babri Masjid was demolished by the Hindu terrorist outfits with the help of such Andhra Pradesh Dalits. Killer Chief Minister Narendra Modi launched his "Gujarat Genocide", killing about 3,000 Muslims in Ahmedabad with the help of the Dalits and Tribals. Hundreds of such instances are reported daily in the media. All Brahminical-controlled rowdy forces in the country comprise mainly Dalits. In Bengal, it is the Dalits who are the fighting arm of the manuwadi marxist leadership.

      Cutting throats of blood brothers: Grass-eating Brahminical forces are cowards. They are afraid of blood. They might have been throughout violent but preach non-violence lest our angry people butcher them in cold blood.

      Our people die as Maoists: The fighting arm of the Maoist (Naxalite) outfits in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, AP, Karnataka and all other areas are all our own people. They know nothing of marxism or maoism but simply get thrilled to take the guns to kill the "class enemies" because that gives them a chance to kill their oppressors. Fight the police and fall dead. Their bodies are then thrown into jungle. Look, how heroic and bold they turn out when on the payroll of the enemy?

      The leadership of both the Hindu terrorist and maoist parties are our upper caste enemies. Our people know it and yet they fight and die like flies under a burning lamp because of the intense enemy brain-washing technique.

      NGO mesmerism: Alas, we have none to educate and motivate our own people who naturally fall prey to the machinations of the enemy and fall dead for the sake of the enemy. What to do? Educated SC/ST/BC youth have fallen prey to the temptations of "political power" or NGO mesmerism.

      Why do our people —always complaining of exploitation and daily persecution by the Brahminical upper castes and yet silently suffer all the insults and violence — yet refuse to get angry and protest and fight? We get no answer to this question. Nor a clue in history.

      How do the same "cowardly" people, once given some drink and cash by the very enemy, cut the throat of their own brothers in cold blood?

      This is because of the intense Brahminical brainwashing and the media manipulation.

      Hundreds of Hanumans have died in killing their own Muslim, Christian blood-brothers in hundreds of anti-Muslim riots and in recent Orissa (Kandhamal) anti-Christian riots.

      Slave dying to defend slave-master: How do you like this scene of a slave dying to defend his slave-master — exhibiting extraordinary "revolutionary fervour"?

      Have you seen a parallel to this in world history?

      This is the wonder that is India.

      No media: RSS and its many hydra-headed outfits are today threatening Muslims, Christians and Dalits only because of the SC/ST/BC muscle power.

      We have no powerful media to educate these unthinking lumpen elements. This is our biggest drawback. If the micro-minority Brahminical people have been ruling India it is mainly because of their total monopoly on the media. But we the over 85% Bahujan slaves have none except this tiny Dalit Voice.

      Weeping in silence: Financially we are crippled. Our only income is the subscription revenue. DSA books are selling well. Our DV family members never bothered despite repeated appeals for "media centre".

      Individually, "educated" SC/ST/BCs may be happy but individual happiness is no happiness. Liberation is always collective. But our people simply can't understand these things. We are helpless. What else to do except simply weep in silence?

      Have you seen a parallel to this in any part of India? This is the wonder that is India that is Bharat.

      Will the slaves of India continue to enterally enjoy their slavery? History of 3,000 years says so.

      India becomes a failed state: This is the heart-rending pathetic picture of India, seeing which we silently weep. What else to do? We are helpless. Financially crippled, with total media blackout, our words are not reaching the masses hungering for an exploitation-free life.

      Over 50% of the country's population is dirt poor. May be another 30% hand-to-mouth. About 15% of the upper castes led by the 2% Brahmins are the rulers. The Western rulers know this truth and yet call India as the world's largest democratic country to spite China. But we the oppressed only know what type of democracy is practised here. India has become a failed state. In the process the country itself is dying. But who cares? Brahminical rulers are more interested in a Security Council seat, not the health and happiness of the country. Darkness is surrounding us.

      Muslims are also in a deeper coma. The mere 15% ruling class among Muslims, comprising political, religious and business leaders have turned traitors to the community. The Muslims being converts from SC/ST/BCs their liberation is ultimately connected with our future. But the Muslim leadership under the thumb of Brahminical rulers will not pass this message to the Muslim masses.

      Who can save this country? We have no answer.

      The above Editorial is our reply to Brother Ayyankali whose charge-sheet against us is published below.


       

      COMMUNICATION

      DALIT BAHUJANS CANNOT BECOME REVOLUTIONARIES

      DV failed to inspire people to fight Brahminism

      COM. AYYANKALI

      I have been one of the greatest admirers and supporters of Dalit Voice all these years. But I am gradually getting disappointed with you.

      I began examining why Dalit Bahujans have not been successful in rebelling against Brahminism. That is when I realised that they never had any culture of armed resistance, except in the very rare case of the late Ayyankali of Kerala who successfully butchered the Aryan cowards.

      DV'S DEFEATIST ATTITUDE

      I was also forced to examine the entire tradition and socio-cultural habit which was hindering this. That is how I realised that even you are very much responsible and that too directly.

      Even though you have spoken about the need for more anger, very subtly, you too have been adopting a very timid and nonviolent position in your own writings. Of course, this has been a defect of the Dalit Bahujan leadership right from the very beginning itself. You too seem to have internalised all its cultural flaws.

      I don't think people who seem to be very proud to be called "Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights" will ever have the courage to stand up and butcher their enemies.

      You have been disseminating a very defeatist attitude and mentality. You keep on saying that political power will never come without cultural struggle. But what is the use if the culture that you yourself disseminate is one of "Oh, people of the world, take pity on us. Oh somebody help us poor weaklings. Help, help...". How long must we keep on saying that we are "persecuted" and that "we are denied human rights"?

      Anybody will tell us "If you are persecuted, then hit back severely". So, this persecution complex and defeatist despairing culture simply won't do.

      "CASTE IDENTITY" IS WONDERFUL

      Frankly, it is of no use at all and unless you stop spreading defeatist despair — no revolution will happen. You can have the best theory of "caste identity" and "caste war" which happen to be a very historical ideological breakthrough, but unless you inculcate a culture of mass revolutionary violence, you will not get anywhere at all.

      You may argue that you have been doing enough by fighting for Lotus Sutra. Well, you are right — but you are wrong. Simply change that defeatist slogan on your masthead which seems to actually convey some sort of enjoyment of the pain of being persecuted in a most masochistic manner and screams: "Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Enough breast-beating, moaning and groaning.

      IDEOLOGICAL ERRORS

      You simply substitute it with: "War cry of the persecuted and angry nationalities thirsty for revolution".

      Are you willing to do this? I have serious doubts. You may argue that "No, this may make the Brahmins angry and they may shut DV down". I say: "so be it". Let them get as much angry as they want. We are here precisely to make them run for their lives. I don't care if our circulation comes down to even a single digit figure. I actually mean this.

      Only those who are interested in armed struggle need to read Dalit Voice. Those who are in a mood to beg, moan, weep and enjoy doing so can stop reading Dalit Voice and do anything else. In fact, you must tell this to your readers very, very clearly.

      You must stop all sorts of defeatist despair by sweetening and glamourising the pain of moaning, groaning and weeping. Stop promoting this bloody masochism immediately. Sadists get pleasure by cruelly troubling others, while masochists get pleasure out of troubling themselves. Stop making such masochistic pain, the opium of Dalit Bahujans, immediately. Are you willing to do it?

      Of course, this point is merely supplementary to your very serious ideological errors, where you have been adopting absolutely non-revolutionary positions with regard to Sri Lanka / LTTE issue, the Muslim question, China etc. You cannot adopt non- revolutionary pacifism sometime and then become slightly "revolutionary" the next day. This kind of dilution sends out precisely the wrong message.

      But I will write in detail — not because I have any hopes of changing established social and cultural habits — but only because you must know why people get tired of Dalit Voice and stop reading it after some time.

      STOP DV AT LEAST TEMPORARILY

      Also, you have to be given a chance to defend yourself ideologically. I must also tell you that there is a very good connection between your personal actions at the micro level and your public actions at the macro level. Both are very much inter-related to socio-cultural habits and norms.

      Unless you yourself — who still happen to be the leadership of most advance section among genuine revolutionaries — decide to change, precisely nothing positive will ever happen. You have to change your methods and destroy established socio-cultural mindsets and habits.

      Without such constant flow of refinement and improvement, nothing revolutionary will happen. For that, you will have to lead by example. This is all the more important.

      Because, really stunning and unprecedented things are happening all over the world. If we have to take positive advantage of all this, then personally you yourself will have to change first.

      And let me tell you very frankly — running DV this way — is not going to achieve anything. Not because I have anything against you or DV, but because — to be effective, we must be willing to change. It would be a good idea to shut down DV for at least sometime, if that will help you take it to a higher and more effective level.

      http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/may2009/editorial.htm

       

      Articles

      ARTICLES

      Even in Pakistan Hindus persecute Dalits

      IMTIAZ ALI, KARACHI

      Dr. Khatumal Jeewan, who has become Pakistan's first Dalit Senator, was born in a remote village near the historic town of Umar Kot , the birth place of Mughal emperor Akbar, and the commercial centre of desert zone communities. Jeewan received his medical degree from the Dow Medical College (DMC). When he joined the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), it was probably these attributes which inspired leadership, and he was awarded a ticket to contest elections several times (traditionally, Hindu families would get ticket for elections). He was elected a Member, National Assembly (MNA) more than once, and worked for the well-being of the deprived Scheduled Castes in the province.

      He was elected MNA for the first time in 1988 and re-elected in 1990, 1993 and 1997 on a reserved seat.

      He was against the joint electoral system (introduced by former President Musharraf) which helped Hindus under this system. Previously, there were four seats for Hindus/Scheduled Castes, four for Christians, one for Parsis, Budhists and Sikhs, and one for Ahmedi/Qadiani. As per the last census, there are 2.4 million Hindus in Pakistan of which 80% are Scheduled Castes. When the Hindus are not ready to tolerate the Scheduled Castes.

      Even in the Islamic state of Pakistan, the minority Hindus are discriminating against Dalits.

      Hindus insist that their animals should drink water first from the wells, and then Dalit women are allowed to fetch water. Dr. Jeewan has provided separate wells to about 300-400 villages in Thar and schools to each village in Mirpurkhas.


      COMMUNICATION

      Hinduism obstructing Budhism

      Dr. MARK ROGOW, 23 - DURANT PLACE, FAIRPORT, NEW YORK - 144 50, USA

      Rev. Tsuchiya wrote me that his friend, the priest Ven.Shurei Sasai, has been making efforts to revive Budhism in India for 40 years. It has also been for liberating Dalit from human discrimination. To save Budhists, Ven. Sasai was a member of National Commision for Minorities, Govt. of India. Rev. Tsuchiya believes the problem of Dalit should not be a fight against the govt. because there is no law on the books to discriminate against the Dalit in India. It is the terrible religious custom and practice of the Hindus that is the problem.He says that only one book of The Lotus Sutra in digest form in Hindi remains and he has already distributed 10,000 books in India together with Ven.Sasai. He will send the last book to you. If possible, he wants to reprint the Hindi version. He is going to negotiate with the Honda Nissho foundation of the Kempon Hokke in the middle of March about this matter.

      Media is against Ven. Sasai

      We have been very close to Ven. Sasai. In fact it was he who converted us to Budhism at Patna (Bihar) some 20 years ago. When we were in Nagpur (March 15) at the headquartes of Ven Sasai, we met him and spent sometime discussing all these things. Even a person of the stature of Dr. Ambedkar could not convert even a fraction of Dalits to Budhism because the Brahminical opposition, if not obstructions both legal and otherwise, is appaling. Budhism could liberate the peoples of entire Eastern Asia including China and Japan but failed in its very land of birth because the Brahminical enemies killed it reosrting to largescale violence. Dr. Ambedkar has written volumes on that. Even today the same people are keeping the Dalits as slaves. Ven. Sasai is struggling and he is the only Budhist monk with the largest following because he is a Japanese. Yet he is not able to make much headway because the media controlled by the enemy, is against him — EDITOR.


      DV as the vanguard of Dalit thought

      DR. DENNIS WALKAR, 1/1 - EDNEY COURT, NOBLE PARK, MELBOURNE -3174, AUSTRALIA

      Brother V.T. Rajshekar, you have much to be proud of the numbers of Dalit Voice in the early 1980s were at the cutting vanguard of Dalit thought. Your early pioneering thoughts then was adopted ten or more years on by Dalits in general throughout India. This is well illustrated by the calls in Dalit Voice in the early 1980s for Dalits to exit from the rural areas and migrate to the bigger cities of India. After a decade, the Dalit press in Hindi was repeating and developing the suggestions of DV. Take your call in the Editorial, "Landless people should leave the villages and migrate to cities", reproduced in Patna's Ambedkar Mission Patrika of September-October 1998. This Editorial took up exactly the same points that you and other Dalit Voice writers had been arguing in the early 1980s more than a decade before. This Editorial depicted the life of landless people who continued to live in the country-side without any hope. They had no any source of income. They are just the slaves of the Hindu land-owners upon whom they were dependents for happiness or sorrow. They had no choice for any other profession that would give them independence. Rural Dalits live in extreme hardship with no hope of economic improvement. The only source of livelihood in rural India is land. Their offspring too had no hope of getting land. The moment they migrate to cities, their slavery ends. Your Editorial showed considerable sophistication in projecting what the effects of the migration to cities would be on both the rural and urban economies. Dalits and low castes in villages who owned a few acres each would not be affected. They would continue to cultivate, subsist. But the migration of Dalit workers to the cities would force the landowners to pay higher wages to the fewer day laborers who stay.


      OUR EDITOR'S THESIS IS HISTORICALLY TESTED

      "Caste identity" is the only right road to "caste war" & revolution

      S. SINGHA CHOWDHURY, RAMAKRISHNAPALLY, VIA CHANDAMARI ROAD, DS LANE PO, HOWRAH - 711 109

      Whether you agree or not with his views, there is no denying the fact that Neerav Patel is a good soul. His questions are genuine, honest and pointed (DV Nov.16, 2007 p.15).

      As a born teacher, a devout reader of the Dalit Voice, I think Dalit Voice is also a forum, a workshop to enlighten the members of the Bahujan family to awaken them from slumber in which they are laid by the Brahminic mantra. Hence this reply to Neerav's questions on "caste identity":

      (1) Do you want caste without casteism? Brahmin without Brahminism? (2) Do you want to establish a casteless society without abolishing the castes? (3) Is not your (DV Editor's) "caste identity" theory contradictory to your aim of casteless society?

      SPIRIT OF HINDUISM

      Q.No.1: Neerav is right, very right.

      Answer: The casteism of the upper castes (Brahmins) are not the same as the casteism of the "lower castes". The Brahmin casteism is the hatred for the lower castes by the higher castes as unalloyed dogma of their faith. It is because the Brahminic casteism is based on hierarchical view of the society based on caste. The lower the caste, the more is the hatred heaped on it. This is the spirit of Brahminic casteism, which is the spirit of Hinduism, diversified in many forms of harvests reflected through Brahminic way of life initiated by Hindu down the hierarchy.

      But the casteism of the lower castes is their hatred for the Brahminic theory of caste system as a hierarchical order of society. It is based on hatred and thus the whole penumbra of "Hindu society" is stinking with the stench of hatred. But the lower caste casteism is based on love. As such it is based on equality. Love cannot be hierarchical. It does not admit of degrees of comparison. Love is based on equality, justice, morality etc. Or, in other words, love must, of course, entail equality, fair-play, justice, charity etc.

      CASTEISM HELPS BRAHMINS

      The Brahminic casteism, being based on hatred cannot establish a just society. It has to be hierarchical in order to have ascendant hatred for the descendant castes: the lower the caste, higher the hatred. But how to abolish Brahminic casteism which is hatism? Who will abolish this cancerous casteism which eat into the vitals of the people, and spoils the brain of all people including the haters?

      The Brahmin will never come forward to abolish it. The Brahmins are the gainers of this system. Therefore, they would try, solemnly, shrewdly, surreptitiously and if necessary, by application of brute force to preserve this system.

      NEHRU LOVE FOR VEDAS

      The Brahmins through their "independence movement" stealthily anointed Nehru, an orthodox Brahmin at core masquerading as liberal, as Prime Minister, by observances of all rites and rituals as prescribed by the Vedas. Nehru himself enjoyed them.

      It is a very common conclusion that the sufferers, the Dalits, the lower castes, who are the victims of the Brahmin casteism would, therefore, have to come forward to abolish it. But how? How to abolish the existing system dominated by the Brahmins? "Caste identity" theory is a pointer to the direction.

      REVOLUTIONARY CONCEPT

      It is a tool to fight the Brahminic evils. In this, the theory is a renovation. It is revolutionary in consequence. Had there been no "caste identity theory" to abolish casteism the Brahminic spirit of hatred of one low caste by another low caste by hierarchical spirit would eternally continue. Again in hierarchical way. Low castes, the lower castes and the lowest castes, would have hatred in ascending order of hatred and they descend down the caste scale. Consequently the enmity among the low castes would be eternal. The Brahmins by creating hierarchical order of society, of which they occupy the head, virtually create a two-rank society: the Brahmins and others, who are all under their heels.

      BRAHMINS AS OUR COMMON ENEMY

      Broadly, "caste identity" theory wants to affirm that all low castes are one and the same in their suffering under the clutches of the Brahminism. And therefore the Brahmins are their common enemy.

      Suffering of one caste may be more than that of another caste. But suffer they must under the heels of the Brahminism. Together and only together they must fight back in challenge.

      The hierarchical order is the shrewdest kind of Brahminic cunning. It is constructed on the principle of hierarchy of the military order where one rank spies over the lower rank successively in order to crush any sign of dissatisfaction anywhere.

      So low-lower-lowest castes must act together now, or never. This stigma of low-lower-lowest order must be swept away in one hatchet. You cannot fight the evil in phase-by-phase way.

      LOW CASTES ASHAMED OF THEIR IDENTITY

      There is a psychological barrier against launching the fight together. In the caste-ridden society, under the Brahminic cunningest stroke of strategical hue, you, the low castes, are ashamed of your own castes — as chhota logs of Bengal are. You can heroically fight among yourselves. But you are ashamed to unite by crossing the barrier of shame to unite with each other.

      So "caste identity" theory is a clarion call to all lower castes to be conscious of their own castes as caste which is in no way inferior to any higher castes strategically posted over you. You have only to see through the Brahminic cunning. And your blinks will automatically fall off. Your caste suffers as a conquered caste. That means or entails a meaning that you were once responsible and respectable people. So you have to find out your caste history by probing through history, religion, your culture and contribution to human history, all of which the Brahmins have carefully distorted and destroyed. That is the meaning of "caste identity".

      We have one single enemy

      Such an effort will promote "caste consciousness" which is nothing but "class consciousness".

      "Caste identity" asserts your dignity. With sense of dignity the "low castes" together can valiantly fight with enthusiasm. Their slogans to expose Brahminic misdeeds will silence the enemy, Brahminic voice, to shame. They would find their enemy, one single enemy — the Brahmin, Brahminism and Brahminised, those victims of Brahminism, the philosophy of casteism, communalism and regionalism — in one word the narrow-mindedness, the Brahminic exclusiveness as unique caste.

      Intercaste differences among the "low castes" once removed there will be all too easy unity among the "low castes", the proletariat, on caste-basis to rise up against the Brahminic varnashrama.

      HOW BRAHMINS SOLVED THEIR CASTE DIFFERENCES

      Remember, the Brahmins too had hundreds of castes — each hating the other. Two sects among the Iyengar Brahmins of Tamil Nadu went up to the Privy Council in London, before "independence" fighting over the shape of the tilak on the head of their temple elephant. The case dragged on for over 100 years. How did they resolve all their caste differences and today stand solidly behind the RSS-BJP? The answer is caste identity.

      "Nationalism" means becoming conscious of one's own nation, the national identity being no less honourable than other nations, the "caste identity" theory is aglow in like manner.

      "Caste identity" is a tool to fight — social, ideological and political.

      So long caste is there, there cannot be any human identity. Before being human you are sub-human in your existence in a caste. In a caste-based society the caste is prior to human being.

      I am open to questions and answer as far as I am capable.

      Questions 2: You want to establish casteless society without abolishing castes?

      CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IS CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS

      Answer: (A) Yes, we want to establish a casteless society without abolishing the castes at the initial stages of our of our struggles, like marxism which aims to establish a classless society without jettisoning classes. The struggle to reach the aim by waging, in the class society a struggle of the proletariat, the poor class against the bourgeoisie, the rich class, the exploiter of the poor class await the opportune moment. It is not an impromptu moment but consciously created moment by the poor classes.

      (B) In the class society, the class ridden society, the disadvantaged class must take up weapon against the advantaged class. You don't import your weapons for waging struggle against the bourgeois from heaven. You have to seek and get weapons from your own society, the class society, you seek the weapons and get the weapons from your own class, the proletariat class, rather classes because the proletariat class is splintered in numerous divisions, subdivision and actually they fight among themselves and not against their enemy.

      BRAHMINS ARE FULLY CASTE CONSCIOUS

      So the aim to reach the classless society is achieved by forging the unity of the diverse classes of the poor in the class society, the capitalist society. In other words, the bourgeois society. The slogan is launched to create class consciousness (caste consciousness) among the poor classes.

      The Brahmins in the caste society already have their caste consciousness, just as in the class society the bourgeoisie has its own consciousness. They create it by self effort among themselves, to protect their interests in the gurgling grievousness of the proletariat rising in the surroundings now mute then mighty in protest against their exploitation dimly lost in the confusion not knowing the historical causation of their lot.

      The class consciousness means the consciousness of its separate existence, the consciousness of being exploited by the haves, the rich.

      The consciousness of creating unity among the exploited classes in existence at variance with each others, so the low castes in the caste society must adopt conscious means to create their unity among themselves in the same process in order to ultimately launch war against the privileged in the caste society.

      caste consciousness brings unity

      In marxism, the class consciousness of the proletariat is a vital step forward in their advance to classless society. So also in a caste society caste consciousness of the low castes is. This is the "caste identity" theory, a strategic weapon to emphasise castes at the initial stages to achieve casteless society in the ultimate stage. Just as in the class society the spirit is obtained by stressing equality, unity and justice among the splintered classes of the poor, so among the proletariat castes the spirit of forging among the "low castes" of unity is to be conscious of their own lot as deprived castes.

      Just as in the capitalist society, unity of and in the Nation is breathlessly pronounced by the National leaders equated with the capitalists. So in India's caste society unity of the country is relentlessly stressed by the Brahminic leaders like Nehru and his Brahminic broods under the broad umbrella of the higher castes.

      NEERAV GROPING IN THE DARK

      They want unity between the capitalists and proletariats. They want unity of the "low castes" with the upper castes. Unity between masters and the slaves.

      Brother Neerav wants abolition of castes without knowing the means of abolishing it. You grope in the dark.

      You cite, recite, resuscitate the same slogan of unity in altered forms and infinitely without reaching the desideratum. You don't know how you are entangled in slogan after slogan to tire yourself. You then curse yourself and condemn everything as futile to be intellectually imbecile and dumb; thereby you reach your doom and there you see how your enemies are all damn glad and go about in arrogant steps over your chests and you are on your back.

      CASTE CARTEL OF THE UPPER CASTES

      Question no.3: Is "caste identity" theory self-contradictory? Destroying its own aim?

      Answer: No. An emphatic no. All for certain it is the most effective means to abolish castes.

      The spirit of Brahminic caste is division of society in the high and low castes. It is hierarchy. If equality is established among the low castes altogether between SC/ST/OBC/minorities, the Brahminic casteism is lost, condemned. A new kind of casteism based on caste-equality descends on India to enlighten, to break out in joy of freedom, a freedom of games of Truths to forsake gloom which condemns us all in darkness of impenetrable depth.

      Inequality among castes of lower order is more prominently, more openly accentuated than the inequality among the higher castes.

      They have been able to create a caste cartel among themselves.

      BENGAL'S CASTE STRUGGLE

      In Bengal the cartel of castes among the Brahmins, Baidyas and Kayasths is a glaring example of caste solidarity, "caste identity" for protection of their caste interest. None of them accepts even a modicum of facility in the form of the quota system in favour of the deprived castes. The question of support does not arise.

      The Bengali psyche of the higher caste is soaked with hatred for the lower castes and the hate as a consequence is more accentuated.

      CASTE STRUGGLE IS LIKE CLASS STRUGGLE

      As against this (the cartel of higher castes), the "lower castes" have as yet failed to create their own cartel. Unless there is a spirit of equality among themselves, they cannot create their own cartel.

      This spirit of equality is exactly the "caste identity" theory of our Editor:

      (1) The exploited castes in the initial stage vaguely feel in their subconscious level a nebulous awareness of being exploited individually as a caste. The more exploited the more is the subconscious stirring.

      (2) India has a series of castes in existence, many centres of sub-consciousness similarly experiencing same or more or less sense of pangs of suffering in subhuman existence in literal sense (the castes of lower orders are shaped in human figure only but not in substance. The sudras, the Untouchables are exactly not humans). The psychological process of creation of consciousness from subconscious works to create a prodding, prone to burst out.

      (3) This proneness gathers its own momentum in wordings of order in language, which silently again works. As next the call, the inner call, the slogans as the shortest form of direction burst out.

      (4) The many centres of sentiments, similarly fertilised by suffering exist, ready and receptive to be inspired by the slogans for unity.

      (5) Thus many streaks of resentment, the urge to revolt, join together, to make a mighty stream of revolution conscious for action.

      BOGUS SLOGANS OF UPPER CASTES

      This is caste consciousness, a consciousness of similar kind, colour and tinge, not at all tainted by caste hierarchy but sainted with sense of humanity, without depravity, division, despair and tragedy of individual caste desolation of silent suffering ends.

      The caste is annihilated in caste struggle, as class is annihilated in class struggle.

      Mere slogans are barren. Barren are the bourgeois slogans. Some specimen of the bourgeois (upper caste) slogan:

      (1) Gandhian: I "dream of a future India after independence which would be free from poverty, illiteracy, diseases of any kind, without caste distinction and communalism etc.". But the means of establishing such an India is never spelt out. New kinds of slogans are slapped abroad by the same leaders or their broods of higher castes.

      (2) Slogans of exhortation: (a) produce or else perish. You produce and actually they (upper castes) eat your products. Even a crumb to be thrown over to you is denied. (b) This is philosophy of renunciation. Do not covert another's riches, prosperity. (c) I am your prophet, I am your Mahomed — I will deliver you from your distress. In death you revive, you neo-brand of Jesus. Deliverance from life condemned to suffering in earth; Hinduism containing the seeds and offering of all fields/soils, so fertile for growth of fantasy — phantasmagoria, the Brahma.

      HOW MUCH JINNAH IS HATED

      (3) another kind of Nehruvian slogan: (a) Let us all close our distinctions among us and unite under the flag of the Indian National Congress. (b) The Congress is India; India is the Congress. (c) The Congress represents the interests, well-being and welfare of all sections of Indian people and is committed to bring prosperity to all sections of our people. You know in an unequal society there is no single means to usher in prosperity for all. (d) If the Congress is India and Nehru is the undisputed leader of the Congress, then he is the undisputed leader of the country. (e) To oppose Nehru, is ultimately, to betray the country.

      WILL SLAVE OWNER ABOLISH SLAVERY ?

      (f) If Jinnah aspires to draw even in the rank of leadership of India, he is a rank, rotten hated person. And hence untouchable. (g) Jinnah cannot claim leadership of the Muslims even as a consequence. Therefore, if Jinnah persists in his obstinacy, he should be jettisoned with his people from India.

      (4) We should congregate all, without distinction between castes class, religions etc. under our national flag.

      In our Republic Day assemblies or "independence" day rallies all over India, I have never seen presence of a single known sweeper class people anywhere, in any such gathering, in any part of India.

      (5) Still the constitution of India calls: "the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, etc..." Who cares and how? "Untouchability abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden". Will the master legalize abolition of slavery sincerely, honestly and seriously?

      Radicalism is born and dies in mere slogans.

      (6) India is a subcontinent of diverse caste, class, community, religion, language etc. But our national flag is eminently Hindu in its colour-design of Hindu religious ideals.

      AMBEDKAR'S MEANING OF CASTE ANNIHILATION

      But Dr. Ambedkar's philosophy calls for a radiant, radical, fundamental changes. When he says (a) "Educate", he does not mean flailing of new-born brats in the voids. He means "Educate" through "Agitation" — to "Agitate" for basic tenets provided by him and those basic tenets can best be permented by "Organisation" — to "Organise" into permanent institutions, the state. You seek the tenets in Annihilation of Castes, the caste system of which the spirit is casteism, the hierarchy of castes. The Brahminic casteism is protected by untouchability which oozes through hierarchy of hatred up the caste scale.

      IF CASTE SYSTEM GOES HINDUISM IS DEAD

      You abolish this casteism, the caste system is dead. The death of caste system means the death of Hinduism. Our Editor has very laboriously cleared this point.

      If all castes below the Brahmins stand on the spirit of equality as all classes below the capitalists do, and wage a struggle, the Brahminic casteism stands abolished. And Brahmins are decapitated. The castes with their casteism falls dead.

      The consciousness of being exploited must naturally generate a spirit among the exploited classes to cement unity among them on the basis of equality to wage a struggle (Agitate) against the exploiters together. Similarly the conscious of being exploited as lower castes in a caste society, compounded with hatred for them, pouring amid, humiliation to burn the festering soar goes afire to consume all of the lower castes to incense of unity among them all. This is caste consciousness of exploited castes.

      This is the meaning of "caste identity" — the identity of the lower castes, the same and similar in the pit of fire burning to incineration together. Their unity is cemented more than anything else through suffering than enjoyment. The upper caste unity breaks into pieces because of the solid show of unity of the lower castes. Their caste-cartel is drowned.

      This is the meaning of "caste identity".

      WHEN BRAHMINS JOINED MUSLIMS

      Whenever the upper castes (Hindus) face the prospective fall staring them in the face, in bitter bile of refraction, their jaws harden. They are ready to cajole and coax any sector/sectors of hitherto down-trodden people to join them to create fissures in the solidity of the unity of the "low castes" created by protracted breath-taking efforts of long period of time, by their traditional technique of drilling into the mind to divide, and to rule.

      If they fail in their design, Brahmins do not hesitate to join those whom they regarded as their enemy, the Muslim, or any other forces at any cost to the country.

      Patriotism they never had, and will not ever incline to have in order to save their Brahminic religious/privileges (note the fall of Nandas brought about by Chanakya, What were their fault? Recall enmity of Prithwiraj and Jaichand etc.. I have noted with dismay the diffident reaction of the learned men of the lower caste-elites including the veteran senior-most Ambedkarites.

      PROBLEM OF "LOW CASTE" UNITY

      Dr. Ambedkar formulated the ways to forge that unity. One such way is to Educate. But he did not give the syllabuses of details of study which primarily of course is his own writings. You Agitate when you are imbued with patriotism, and patriotism results said E. Burke, from intensive study of comparative history of diverse countries. For organise you depend on your own experience of the field.

      The fools are never patriot, and the cunning are worse than fools and rogues. And Brahminic cunning is compounded with Hindu religion to make it more dangerous.

      Many learned Ambedkarites, junior and senior, view the problem of creating unity among the hundreds of "low castes" as so formidable as useless to try. Their number is gradually growing as the number of useless herbs and trees pullulate with pulsating rate. It has to be noted that the caste system is so designed as to produce numerous low castes through its leaky bottom. The highest caste, because it is the highest, the supreme, cannot grow any new variety to be higher than the highest. The Brahminic sub-castes are all equal. It is the easiest for them to create a cartel. To create a cartel among themselves is the hardest of the hard for the shudras. So till the caste system is completely annihilated, the shudras would grow in number apace, the Brahminic ones won't in growth of number they are tardy.

      REVOLT OF GREEK SLAVES

      There is another aspect of sordid existence in our caste society patterned on hierarchy of castes whose role are respectively played sometimes in low-key politeness in normal day-to-day life-cycle in un-protesting society and the higher castes, whenever protesting lower castes dare to break the caste rules enacted to their advantage rise up in demoniac fury in hoarse rasp of poisonous snake. The West has experienced in classical Greek times repeated slave revolts, major and minor, taken together amount to more than 300-400 times waged in blind fury by the slaves and ruthlessly suppressed by their masters. These revolts were waged by racially discriminated slaves against their masters who presumed themselves racially superior White race to their Black slaves.

      ARYANS DESTROYED DRAVIDA CIVILIZATION

      The lower castes, racially distinct from the fair-skinned Aryans, were ruthlessly subjugated by the latter in South India. The Dravidas were Black people who built up the Harappa and Mohenjodaro civilisation, which were far superior to any in existence during contemporary times. The Dravida civilisations were urban, whereas the Aryans were barbarian rural hordes pillaging and plundering about indiscriminately.

      The Upanishads delighted in description of ruthless destruction of cities of Dravida civilisations without compunction. It proves that the Aryans of the period had not arrived at the age of moral and ethical sense. The Mongols, who wanted to completely destroy the Chinese urban civilisation for pasteurisation of their huge droves of animals, were dissuaded by moral advice of the Chinese minister. The Aryans were stranger completely to the sense of morality and ethics.

      The word "caste" in Portuguese means race and casteism is racism of which the full culmination bloomed in the arrogance of the Brahmins of the South in the various forms that repel human senses in disgust.

      The "caste identity" theory of our Editor has to come in this context of the racial superiority of the Dravida people to demonise Brahminism.

      Secondly, the deprivation of the "lower castes" perpetrated by the religious theory of diabolical Hinduism is absolute in all aspects. Bestial forces, Brahminic cunning which is the other name of meditation devoted to devise ways and means to subjugate the sudras absolutely, the theory of society and education all and sundry, were used openly and sensitively by shrewd compact of the Brahminic evil forces.

      All castes individually and collectively must make all-out effort to lay bare the devilry of Brahmins and Brahminism. The enormity of their crimes, betrayal to India and her people, their absolute lack of patriotism will make all "lower castes" stand aghast and pull together to make an end of India of Hinduism.

      Thirdly, Western people have reached the age of modernity through (a) Graeco-Roman rationality and laws, (b) Christian ethics, (c) Renaissance individualism and reformation and (d) revolution, all of which are now available for use by the sudras. The Brahmins had feigned acceptance of them and ultimately failed them.

      Thus there is no renaissance in India. There is revivalism and reaction which is the end product of so many subterfuges and delirium of talks and tantrums.

      The sudras must have to make a thorough study of India and world history, a comparative estimation, and reject Brahminic claims as assorted in void and as gone awry. The Brahmins are simply incapable of achieving good. They are the people fit to be in ignorance and crime.

      Our Editor's "caste identity" theory is historically tested and hence the only way to pave the way for a "caste war".


      How to make slaves enjoy their slavery ?

      antiterror88@yahoo.com

      A one page summary of the Protocols Of Zion by Rense.com A one page summary

      Goyim are mentally inferior to Jews and can't run their nations properly. For their sake and ours, we need to abolish their governments and replace them with a single government. This will take a long time and involve much bloodshed, but it's for a good cause. Here's what we'll need to do:

      * Place our agents and helpers everywhere

      * Take control of the media and use it in propaganda for our plans

      * Start fights between different races, classes and religions

      * Use bribery, threats and blackmail to get our way

      * Use Freemasonic Lodges to attract potential public officials

      * Appeal to successful people's egos

      * Appoint puppet leaders who can be controlled by blackmail

      * Replace royal rule with socialist rule, then communism, then despotism

      * Abolish all rights and freedoms, except the right of force by us

      * Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary

      * Eliminate religion; replace it with science and materialism

      * Control the education system to spread deception and destroy intellect

      * Rewrite history to our benefit

      * Create entertaining distractions

      * Corrupt minds with filth and perversion

      * Encourage people to spy on one another

      * Keep the masses in poverty and perpetual labor

      * Take possession of all wealth, property and (especially) gold . Use gold to manipulate the markets, cause depressions etc.

      * Introduce a progressive tax on wealth

      * Replace sound investment with speculation

      * Make long-term interest-bearing loans to governments

      * Give bad advice to governments and everyone else

      Eventually the Goyim will be so angry with their governments (because we'll blame them for the resulting mess) that they'll gladly have us take over. We will then appoint a descendant of David to be king of the world, and the remaining Goyim will bow down and sing his praises. Everyone will live in peace and obedient order under his glorious rule.The Protocols of Zion (complete protocols & summary).

       

      [The Zionist Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is nothing but the Brahminical Arthashastra. Photocopy available with Dalit Voice (pp.130. Rs. 85). ]

       

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      Reports


      Elections alone can't make India proud to call itself a democracy

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: At the April 2, 2009 G-20 summit in London, whenever the BBC referred to India it was called the "world's largest democracy". BBC like all Western institutions is also anti-China. And to spite China, they praise India. May be they get a vicarious pleasure out of it. Fine.

      But we the Untouchables of India (20%) know what type of democracy is practised here.

      The recent parliament election in April — and the periodical elections to state legislatures and other sundry elections — are India's only argument to claim that India is a democracy.

      CASTE AS SOLE CRITERION

      Elections have become a big business. We have many elections to a variety of bodies: zilla parishad, panchayat, taluk board, legislative council, Rajya Sabha, cooperative institutions etc.

      We found a very sound argument to discredit Indian elections as a barometer of democracy in the just published book, Wars, Guns & Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, by Paul Collier, an academic economist (Harper Collins, 2009, pp.277, $30).

      The recent parliament elections proved that every party selected candidates only on the basis of caste which became the sole criterion for selection, plus the candidate's ability to spend money. Can this be called democracy?

      Many parliament elections have been held — one worse than the other. Genuine people's representatives can never get elected. They lack the right jati and the strength of money. Plus the right political connections.

      Our Khatri Sikh PM, Manmohan Singh, is called a "good man" by the upper caste rulers. But even such a "good man" cannot get elected even to the country's lowest elected post: a panchayat. The masses of people of India simply do not know him.

      Even if you have the right jati and the Big Money, when your supporters go to the polling booth, your votes are already cast by the rowdies employed by your opponent.

      In the words of G.K. Galbraith India is a "functioning anarchy". It is not a functioning democracy.

      PERMANENT UPPER CASTE RULE

      In Karnataka, the Lingayats and Vokkaligas — the two dominant upper castes — permanently rule. The overwhelming majority of "lower castes" have no say.

      "If democracy means little more than elections, it is damaging to the reform process", Paul Collier says. He is right. Elections in India is nothing but caste power and money power — plus gangsterism. Such elections can retard rather than advance a country's progress, he warns.

      The worst sufferers are the Muslims (15%) and Christians (2.5%) who can never get elected. These two sections have suffered under this great Indian "democracy".

      Dalit representatives can get elected only from the "reserved constituencies" in which only the puppet of an upper caste landlord is set up. A Dalit who challenges the upper caste hegemony will never be selected. And if he contests as an independent he will be put down.

      Every candidate, irrespective of his party, concentrates his attention mainly on the densely populated urban slums — where the poorest Indians, Dalits and Muslims live — but always ignore the fashionable upper caste localities. But once a candidate gets elected he never visits the slums but always found in the company of upper caste rich who never go to vote. How can this be democracy?

      Indian electoral system is totally corrupt and loaded against the over 85% of the oppressed castes and communities.

      Still India is praised as the "world's largest democracy" to spite China which has better democracy than what it is in India, according to Jaya Prakash Narayan (JP).


      Cultural movement to fight Brahminism launched

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: A "Balijan Cultural Movement" was launched from Delhi to fight Brahminism after a group of scholars met for three days (March 9 to 11, 2009),headed by Dr. Kancha Ilaiah of Osmania University and one of the rare intellectually honest persons of the country.

      Dr. Gail Omvedt, noted social scientist, has sent the following communication to the Editor of Dalit Voice :

      A question was raised about the connection of the "Balijan cultural movement" with "Truthseekers". The connection is simply that "Truthseekers" has hosted the initial meeting of the movement and will continue to provide support. Otherwise there is no connection and the "Balijan Cultural Movement" is a new beginning.

      It was noted that as written in Hindi the word "Balijan" has different meanings: with short "i" it means "we ourselves have to be sacrificed; with long "i" it means strength: we must have our dignity. There was a general consensus that the meaning of "strength" should be stressed.

      Who is Bali: There is a familiarity with the radical use of "Bali Raja" in some areas of the country. For example, in Maharashtra "Bali Raja" is looked on as a "peasant king" and there is a common saying, ida pida javo, Balica rajya yevo — "let sorrow and exploitation go and the kingdom of Bali come"; in Kerala, Onam or the return of "Mahabali" is a joyous festival of the year. In other parts of the country, part of our work will be to stress our interpretation of the term.

      It was pointed out that "culture" is a broad term; that some local cultures are dying; and that there is a need for documenting these – documenting folk stories, songs, art, and having projects to preserve local and indigenous cultures. For example, a dictionary of the Dom language could be made.

      It was emphasized that the purpose should be to fight Brahmanism and the caste system and work for equality.

      Brahmin domination: We feel a concern about language: the Constitution does not recognize linguistic diversity; it superimposes one language over others.

      Our "Indian culture" is dominated by Brahmans; so Brahmanic culture has become synonymous with Indian culture to most people.

      Since the common link between various groups or cultures is oppression, we have to struggle against the various forms of oppression: caste, class, race, linguistic, religious.

      This cultural activism also has to be synchronized with or /linked to the developmental aspirations of the people.

      Definition of culture: In the discussion on culture, the question was raised of the need to define what we mean by "culture." What is culture itself, what is included in the term "culture" and what are the special characteristics of Indian culture?

      Following the equalitarian culture of the tribal period, there has been in every human society a cultural, political and economic conflict between the elite and the masses, which has included a conflict between the culture of the people and the culture of the elites. In every human society also this has included a conflict between patriarchy and the more gender-equalitarian culture of the masses.

      The term "culture" includes the norms, values, and practices of the people of a society. Thus a society can be "multicultural."

      Sanskrit not ancient: It was also stressed that it is not true to say that Brahmanism (or "Hinduism" as it is called by most people today) arose first and that others followed as a reaction; or that Brahmanism was an "orthodoxy" and the others were "heterodoxy".

      If anything, the shramanic traditions could claim a greater antiquity than Brahmanism, since there is some evidence that they can be traced as far back as the Indus Valley Civilization, before the entry of the Vedic Aryans.

      Similarly, it is not true to say that Sanskrit is the oldest language of India; even aside from the language of the Indus Civilization, we can trace evidence of popular speech much earlier than Sanskrit. The language of the Jains (known today as "Ardha-Magadhi") and of the early Buddhists texts ("Pali") derived from languages spoken in the area of the earliest kingdoms (Magadha) and central India (an important center of the Ashokan empire). The term "Prakrit" should be avoided since it is also a Sanskrit term. Early Dravidian literature and the languages known today as Munda/Ho/Santhali (including perhaps the earliest language of the Bhils) from a "tribal" belt stretching across central India can also claim priority over Sanskrit. Religion or spirituality is a crucial part of human culture, and whatever our personal feelings are, we should recognize and respect the opinions of other religions.

      (We do not consider "Brahmanism" a religion but as a purely exploitative ideology).

      The following were suggested to fill as: national chairperson: Kancha Ilaiah;convenor: Sunil Sardar; secretary: Braj Mani; spokesperson: Victor Paul; treasurer: Dinesh Kumar.

      Steering committee members are: Dr. Rama Panchal, Dinesh Kumar, Dr. Bharat Patankar, Dr. Ghawade, Than Singh Josh, Dr. Raj Kumar, Neela Lodhi, Cynthia Stephens, Waharu Sonavane, Leela Kumari, Shamim Ahmad, P. Surendran, John Dayal.

      BJP's Brahminism: It was decided that there should be no formal political sharing of platforms with Sangh Parivar organizations and individuals in these. For instance, all political parties may have some Brahmanism in them, but the BJP is openly Brahmanic and communal. There should be no dealing with organizations which openly profess religious fundamentalism and Brahmanism.


      Brahmins hate Mayawati despite her all-out support

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: Any amount of pouring milk to serpent and worshipping it will not stop the poisonous reptile to bite you. We had given this warning in our Editorial of July 16, 2005: "In defence of Brahmins: Mayawati's new caste equation in UP". Here is yet another example of how much the vaidiks hate Mayawati despite her support:

      As the leader of an essentially one-state and one-caste party, Mayawati's vision cannot but be circumscribed by her political instincts. By first announcing and then rescinding her choice of a Dalit legislatore as her successor, she confirmed her whimsical streak. This cannot enhance her prime ministerial claims. Nor can the evidence of her paranoia, as reflected in morbid expressions of the fear of being killed. Or her attempts to scuttle a railway project in Sonia Gandhi's constituency. In any event, her earlier selection of a Dalit as the next party chief showed that she remained trapped in a clastrophobic word of caste prejudices which undermined her claim to be prime minister of a country as diverse as India. (Times of India, April 6, 2009).

      Look at the venom in the Bengali Brahmin Amulya Ganguli article.

      DV Edit Feb.16, 2009: "Mayawati may become king maker".


      Dalai Lama is a hated blood-sucker feudal lord

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: The Dalai Lama is a hated blood-sucker feudal lord, according to the editor of the Hindu, N. Ram, a Brahmin.

      Why we are mentioning his caste name is because the upper castes don't believe what others write. To them that which comes from conch only is the thirtha. The rest is mere water.

      The above verdict on the Dalai Lama (Hindu, March 28, 2009) comes from the conch.

      Ram who recently toured Tibet says feudal serfdom actually existed in Tibet before the peasant uprising drove out the Dalai Lama.

      WHY INDIAN RULERS LOVE HIM

      He quotes a number of Western scholars, who visited Tibet up to 1959, asserting the existence of such a slave system. Over 90% of the Tibetan population were serfs:

      Land as well as all means of production were in the hands of three categories of estate-owners — called Lamas who comprised just 5% of the total population.

      The communist revolution abolished landlords presided over by the oppressive Dalai Lama.

      And such a hated fellow was welcomed by India's Brahminical rulers and given shelter.

      But his days are now counted even inside India. Because as long this thorn remains in the Brahminical throat how can they seek peace with China which has already become the world's richest country?

      NOBEL IS JEWISH

      Ordinary people are told that Dalai Lama is a "man of god", "working to establish peace", but "the anti-god and anti-democratic China hounded him out". Yes. To bolster this image of Dalai Lama, the West gave him a Nobel Peace Prize and the Western countries paraded him carrying him on the head.

      India's Brahminical rulers are spending more money on the Dalai Lama and his refugees, who are not Indian, and parading him as a great Budhist leader. The national toilet papers give him front-page coverage.

      That is how the innocent people are bamboozled and misled.

      The Nobel Foundation is a Jewish enterprise which selects only such enemies of Islam and communism to shower its awards and rewards.

      In India, Dalai Lama was used by the ruling class to malign Dr. Ambedkar and his Budhism and strengthen their oppressive Brahminical religion.

      The Editor of the Hindu is not a communist and yet he found out the Truth that Dalai Lama was a blood- sucker feudal lord. Even the noted economist J.K. Galbraith of US had said this long back.

      But the rule of the zionist-dominated West and Brahminical India is always to suppress Truth and Justice. In spite of all these obstacles China came to be recognised as the world's No.1 economic power. China has invited foreign journalists to tour Tibet and find out the Truth. But there are no takers.

      At last some Truth comes out accidentally. But in India even that is not possible because the Brahmin will believe only another Brahmin.

      That is why we quoted the Editor of the Hindu.

      References:

      DV April 1, 2009 p.9: "Dalai Lama admits defeat".

      DV Dec.16, 2008 p.8: "West realises its mistake on Tibet".

      DV July 16, 2008 p.23: "Dalai Lama as CIA pimp: Killers of democracy funding him".

      DV June 1, 2008 p. 20: "Human rights charge against China in Tibet is false".

      DV Edit April 16, 2008: "Dalai Lama propped up by US to irritate China: Vaidik rulers bid to please West will harm India",

      p.3: "USA using India to liberate Tibet",

      p.4: "British backing Dalai Lama" & p.5: "Jealous of China's gallop, sinking USA wants to spoil Beijing Olympics."

      DV Dec.16, 2006 p.7: "No peace with China"


      Caste alone matters

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: All the critics of our "caste identity" thesis have suddenly started indulging in caste-wise analysis of the ongoing parliament election. Even the Brahmana Jati Party, which says it believes only in Hinduism but not caste division, is resorted to reckless caste politics.

      Bangalore: The BJP has again proved that it is a pro-Lingayat party compared to other parties, while the Congress is still a party which gives primacy for Other Backward Classes and minorities. The JD(S), true to its image, has remained faithful to its vote bank— Vokkaliga.

      The BJP has given close to one-third of the total 28 tickets to Lingayat, the caste to which Chief Minister Yeddyurappa belongs to. (Deccan Herald, April 8, 2009)

      We have said hundreds of times that India is the hot-bed of castes which instead of dying is getting hotter.

      We have also said to "Kill casteism (Hinduism) strengthen the caste identity".

      Did not DV prove right?


      Ahmedinejad may be re-elected Iranian President

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: Zionists and the Western hate-mongers are shocked by President Obama extending his hand of friendship to Iran —dubbed the "axis of evils" by George W. Bush. Because Obama knows that Iran, despite being a Shia country, holds the key to Middle East peace. America turned against Iran in 1979 and since 30 years every effort was made by the US and the West in general to liquidate Iran. Nothing happened.

      Holocaust humbug: The West is carrying on a campaign against President Ahmedinejad and doing everything to see that he is not re-elected in the coming Presidential election. But our information is zionists in particular and the West in general may hate him but the Iranians want to re-elect him as President. It was President Ahmedinejad who staged the world's first "Holocaust conference" at Tehran to tell the world that the whole zionist-manufactured story is a big hoax. Ahmedinejad is not only a poor man's President but supporter of all revolutionary forces like the Hamas and Hizbollah. He has more following among the majority Sunni Muslims despite being a Shia leader.

      India loses Iran gas: But the anti-Muslim upper caste rulers of India antagonised Iran and lost the chance of getting cheap Iranian gas. The loser is India. The vast rural poor, whom he regularly visits, the country's Revolutionary Guard and the Basji, a youth force, are all his supporters. Besides, the country's supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is also said to be favouring his reelection for fiercely pushing the "Iranian bomb". And raising the status of Iran not only in the Muslim world but even outside.


      Bankers as biggest mischief-makers

      OUR CORRESPONDENT

      Bangalore: DV was the first in India to welcome the global financial meltdown (DV Edit April 1, 2009) and express happiness over fall of the filthy rich.

      All over the world the poor and the oppressed have welcomed the meltdown. In the latest parliament election in India the "melt-down" was never an issue.

      Ambani's wealth: Bankers are the biggest mischief makers. This is because the banks from top to bottom are loaded with upper castes, the enemy of the people. They hate the villages where the producers live. Banks neglected the villages and the agriculture got neglected.

      But our Chettiar Finance Minister, being an upper caste and urbanite, encouraged only the urban parasites. That is how the entire rural side got neglected and farmers committed suicide. In any other country the culprit causing rural decay would have been sentenced to death. But in Brahminical India such people only are selected for awards and rewards. How could a humble petrol bunk employee (Ambani) establish the country's single richest business house — except by stealing? Greedy rich have cheated hard working, innocent people. But Brahminism respects only the rich.The financial world is rotten to the core. But alas the people in India get angry for wrong reasons.

       http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/may2009/reports.htm

       

       

      Nehru Must Be Turning In His Grave

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          Flu pandemic likely even as Mexico cases easing

           Mexico City Mexico's swine flu outbreak appeared to be easing on Saturday with a decrease in serious cases, the government said, but world health officials warned the unpredictable virus could still become a pandemic. "Each day there are fewer serious cases and the mortality has been decreasing," Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told a news conference in Mexico City, where millions were heeding government advice to stay at home. Of the more than 100 suspected deaths from the new H1N1 virus that have emerged in the Latin American nation, 19 had been confirmed, Cordova said. Mexico had already scaled back from its original estimate of 176 suspected deaths. However, new cases of the mongrel virus, which mixes swine, avian and human flu strains, were still being tracked across the world. Costa Rica, Italy and Ireland confirmed cases of the disease, which has now been found in 18 countries.

          In Geneva, the World Health Organization said H1N1 influenza had not spread in a sustained way outside North America, as required before the pandemic alert is raised to its highest level. But it said that would probably happen soon. "I would still propose that a pandemic is imminent because we are seeing the disease spread," Michael Ryan, WHO director of Global Alert and Response, told a briefing. Few are ready to take chances with the new virus, widely dubbed swine flu.

          In Hong Kong, police quarantined a hotel after a Mexican guest fell ill with the virus. Mexico, the country hardest hit by the virus, called the action "unjustified" and advised its citizens to avoid travel to China. China's Foreign Ministry had no immediate response.

          Mexican authorities said earlier they believed the situation was stabilizing as fewer patients with severe flu symptoms were checking into hospitals. The WHO said 15 countries had reported 615 infections, not including the reports of confirmed cases in Ireland, Italy and Costa Rica. The United States, the second hardest-hit nation, has confirmed 160 cases in 21 states. But public hospitals in Mexico have noted a steady drop in patients turning up with fevers, suggesting the infection rate may be declining as people use hand gel and avoid crowds. U.S. officials said they were encouraged by the developments in Mexico but added it was too early to relax.

          "We are remaining vigilant," said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have seen times where things appear to be getting better and then get worse again. ... I think in Mexico we may be holding our breath for some time." Almost all infections outside Mexico have been mild. The only death in another country has been a Mexican toddler who was taken to the United States before he became ill. Canadian health officials announced that a swine herd in the province of Alberta had been infected with the virus, apparently after contact with a Canadian carpenter who had brought the virus back from Mexico. People are known to infect pigs with influenza, just as pigs can infect people.

          Canadian officials noted the outbreak did not pose a risk to the food supply and Canadian pork remained safe to eat. The WHO and other international organizations warned on Saturday against imposing any trade restrictions on pigs or pig products as a result of the emergence of the new flu.

          President Barack Obama said the United States was responding aggressively to the new flu strain, closing some schools temporarily and distributing antiviral drug supplies as needed. Obama spoke to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday about cooperating to stop the virus. Scientists are still trying to assess how the new virus behaves and compares to regular seasonal flu strains, which kill between 250,000 and 500,000 globally every year.

          WHO hiked its pandemic alert level to 5 from 3 this week -- the last step before a pandemic -- due to its rapid spread and the possibility it could hit hard poor and disease-prone communities, including among people with HIV.

          Ryan said the WHO would send more than 2 million treatment courses of antiviral drugs to poor countries to help them prepare for the virus, which is already causing havoc with a travel industry that flies hundreds of thousands of people to and from Mexico each week. Interior Minister Fernando Gomez Mont called on Mexico's political parties to cooperate with efforts to prevent contagion by not holding major public rallies in the campaign for mid-term congressional polls scheduled for July.

          India need not worry about the Sikhs: Pak

           

          Islamabad Pakistan dismissed the unhappiness expressed by India about the Taliban imposing tax on Sikhs and demolishing their homes in the restive tribal belt, saying the issue was of "no concern" to New Delhi.

          Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said Pakistan had responded to India's "verbal demarche" on the issue by making it clear that the Sikhs in this country are Pakistani citizens and are of "no concern of India."

          "Pakistan is fully cognisant of the issue of the Sikhs and of the welfare of all its citizens, especially the minorities," said Basit.

          Diplomatic sources said the issue of Sikhs being forced out of their homes in Pakistan's Aurakzai tribal agency after they failed to pay 'jiziya' or tax imposed on non-Muslims was taken up on Friday with the Foreign Office by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

          It was also taken up with the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi by the External Affairs Ministry.

          The Indian side was told by the Pakistanis that it "need not worry about the Sikhs" and that the move was "tantamount to interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs," the sources said.

           

          Rift in Fourth Front, as Paswan defends Kalyan

          New Delhi Differences in the Fourth Front over the relationship between Kalyan Singh and Samajwadi Party deepened on Sunday with LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan on Sunday jumping to the defence of the former BJP leader, a day after he was described as a "convict" in the Babri Masjid demolition case by a clearly unhappy RJD Lalu Prasad.

          "Kalyanji will remain with us. He is with (SP chief) Mulayam Singh Yadav. Kalyan Singh has said that two big leaders had given assurance that such things will not happen," Paswan said. The LJP chief's comments came after Prasad said that Singh was a "convict" in Babri Masjid demolition case and questioned his role as a star campaigner for SP which is contesting Lok Sabha polls in alliance with RJD.

          "He (Kalyan) is a convict in the demolition of the Babri Masjid... Is he a member of SP?.. He is not a member of the SP," Prasad said in Patna on Saturday. Kalyan, who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, is an accused in the case. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Kalyan quit the BJP to join hands with his erstwhile detractor Mulayam Singh Yadav.

          On Prasad's attack, Kalyan Singh said "he (Lalu) is referring to the past, he should speak about the present. Muslims have accepted me and I am comfortable with them, this is the fact today".

          Meanwhile, Mulayam Yadav said Kalyan has always fought for the welfare of farmers like himself.  

          Manmohan Singh is our PM candidate, reaffirms Rahul

           Barmer Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said Manmohan Singh is UPA's and Congress candidate for the post of Prime Minister, reaffirming the stand of the party leaders that there is no vacancy for the top job.

          "Manmohan Singh is our PM, he is UPA's PM," Gandhi said while addressing a rally in support of the Congress candidate Harish Choudhury here.

          Taking a dig at the BJP's 'India Shining' campaign in the last elections, Gandhi said, "NDA has India Shining ideology, its India for stock market, privatisation and the rich and the elite."

          Stating that Congress ideology was for the development, he said, "I can never say that India is shining till the time there is even one single poor person living in the country." Gandhi also questioned NDA's commitment toward farmers, who formed a majority of the gathering today and said, "One of the leaders of the NDA's former allies in Andhra Pradesh said that the country did not need farmers as they were so many call centres operating there."

          On the nuclear deal issue, Rahul Gandhi said he was ridiculed by the NDA for taking after names of Shashikala and Kalawati in the parliamentary debate on the issue but "the electricity generated after the deal will help the poor to get richer".

          Stating that NDA has "forgotten" the farmer, Gandhi pointed out that the Congress-led UPA government had waived off farm loans worth Rs 70,000 crores and launched schemes such as NREGA and mid-day meal to benefit the farmers.  

          Jobs cannot be left to mkt forces alone: Govt

           New Delhi Without leaving job creation to market forces, India needs to grow at nine per cent consistently for the next eight years to achieve near-full employment by 2017, a high-powered Government panel has said.

          The country will need policies with focus on unorganized sectors, employing 94-98 per cent of the workforce, the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (NCEUS) said in its report submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday.

          It said without changing basic policies "we shall have to wait till about 2017 for a near full-employment situation, only if our economy grows at 9 per cent (on) average."

          The Commission, headed by noted economist Arjun Sengupta, said, "Market forces alone may produce a high rate of expansion of India's GDP, but for expanding employment a well-designed set of policies and programmes will have to be adopted and implemented."

          It said the share of informal workers in the workforce is not likely to decline. "Hence the problems of quality employment will continue to persist," it said.

          The NCEUS, appointed in September 2004, completed its term yesterday, almost coinciding with the UPA Government's tenure.

           

          Govt may offer general amnesty to LTTE cadres

          Colombo With the Tiger rebels on their last legs, the Sri Lankan government is mulling a general amnesty to the surrendering LTTE cadres as well as to those who are in detention in the Island country.

          "Regulations are being worked out in consultation with the Attorney General and they would cover anyone who agrees to lay down weapons and surrender before the security forces," Minister for Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe said.

          However the amnesty will not be granted to those who have already been charged or convicted in courts. "In these cases, the legal process will be applied," the minister told reporters.

          He said an undisclosed number of LTTE members had come along with the displaced people to the camps in Wanni. "While some have confessed they are members of the LTTE, others are being investigated for their links with the group". Samarasinghe said he was not aware of the exact number of the LTTE cadres among the displaced people but some estimates put it at 3000.

          The LTTE members would be rehabilitated and later allowed to re-integrate with others once the investigators get convinced that they have shunned separatism, Samarasinghe was quoted as saying by the 'Sunday Times'.

          Officials said that around 1000 rebels had already confessed their involvement with the LTTE and were undergoing rehabilitation in special transit camps in Wanni and elsewhere, the newspaper said.

          Earlier the United Nations had urged the government to consider a general amnesty for the LTTE members willing to give up arms. Late last month, President Mahinda Rajapksa had said there will be no amnesty for Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran as he has "spurned chances for pardon".

          "The LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has spurned the possibility of pardon by us. In doing so, by not giving up arms and surrendering as required, he must now face the consequences of his acts," Rajapaksa said.

          Rajapaksa said his government has earlier shown the example by offering clemency to Karuna Amman and Pillaiyan, who are now a Minister and a Chief Minister respectively. "Such clemency would have been possible for Prabhakaran if he had surrendered, given up arms and abandoned violence, as called for on several occasions, and not caused so much suffering to the people," the President had said.

           

          Lanka seeks counter-terrorism as NAM's top agenda

           

          Colombo With LTTE on the verge of total defeat, Sri Lanka has demanded that ways to counter terrorism be highlighted in the agenda of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Addressing a ministerial meeting of the NAM nations in Havana, Sri Lanka's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hussein A Bhaila sought greater international cooperation in combating terrorism.

          He lavished praises on the security forces for their "successful" humanitarian operations, which "helped rescue more than 150,000 civilians from the LTTE-held areas in the last ten days".

          Bhaila said the "impressive advances" made by the Lankan government in the North under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa heralded the end of the road for terrorism and violence in the country.

          Emphasizing that "counter-terrorism" should be kept on the top of NAM's agenda, he maintained that "no entity postulating or practising terrorism should be allowed to claim to represent any community, ethnic or religious interests."

          "Each sovereign state has an inalienable right to protect its territorial integrity and maintain peace and security and the rule of law within its borders," the minister told the meeting on Thursday.

          The Sri Lankan Minister also identified the current financial crisis as the leading cause for the decline in growth levels among developing countries.

          He said NAM could play a major role in taking initiatives on behalf of the member countries to address this situation.

          "Exacerbated by the ongoing financial crisis, numerous challenges including lack of food security and threats to energy security, have the potential to roll back national economic and development gains, so painfully realized by developing countries over the decades," he said.

          Bhaila led the Sri Lanka delegation to the two-day NAM ministerial conference, which ended in the Cuban capital on Thursday.

          This preparatory meeting to the forthcoming 15th NAM Summit in Egypt in July 2009 adopted the final document and communiqué on the situation in the Middle East.

          The meeting was attended by foreign ministers and high level representatives of more than 125 member states and observer countries.

           

           knew nothing about Babri demolition: Kalyan Singh

           

          Lucknow/Patna Notwithstanding Kalyan Singh's efforts to distance himself from Babri Masjid demolition, RJD chief Lalu Prasad made known his discomfiture with the former BJP leader's association with ally Samajwadi Party as he branded him a "convict" in the case on Saturday.

          Prasad also questioned Kalyan Singh's role as a star campaigner for Samajwadi Party, which is contesting Lok Sabha elections in alliance with RJD.

          "He (Kalyan) is a convict in the demolition of the Babri Masjid... Is he a member of SP?.. He is not a member of the SP," Prasad said, when his opinion was sought on the former UP Chief Minister's appeal to Muslims to "bury" the BJP.

          Kalyan had made the appeal at an election rally on Friday, saying he had already "dug a grave" for BJP and Muslims should "put soil to fill it".

          Kalyan, who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, is an accused in the case.

          Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Kalyan quit the BJP to join hands with his erstwhile bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav. Seeking to distance himself from the demolition, Kalyan Singh claimed that he was "kept in the dark" by BJP.

          "I was told that nothing will happen (demolition of mosque)... there was a conspiracy by BJP behind it. Two big leaders who were kar sevavadis, had given to Supreme Court in writing that only a symbolic kar seva would be held there (in Ayodhya)," Kalyan Singh said.

          Kalyan said that believing the two unnamed BJP leaders, he also told Supreme Court "that yes, I will provide security (to the mosque). However I can say that BJP leaders were probably thinking how to remove me, because I belong to the backward caste community, which is not acceptable to that party".

          On Prasad's attack, Kalyan Singh responded by saying "he (Lalu) is referring to the past, he should speak about the present. Muslims have accepted me and I am comfortable with them, this is the fact today".

           

          Key party quits Nepal's coalition govt in protest over Katawal's sacking

           

          Kathmandu Officials say a key political party has quit Nepal's coalition government to protest the prime minister's decision to fire the army chief. The general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) announced the party's withdrawal. It was the second largest party in the coalition government.

          Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist rebel leader, sacked army chief Rookmangud Katawal on Sunday after accusing him of defying government orders.

          Nepal Premier Prachanda on Sunday fired army chief Gen Rukmanga Katawal for defying government orders but he shot back rejecting the decision, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis despite repeated calls from India for a rapprochement.

          61-year-old Gen Katawal was sacked as he had disobeyed government's instructions, the PM's Press Adviser Om Sharma said, shortly after the decision was taken at a special cabinet meeting chaired by Prachanda and boycotted by four key constituents of the Maoists-led government. Lt Gen Kul Bahadur Khadka, the number two in the army and a confidant of Prachanda, was immediately named as acting army chief to replace Gen Katawal, who was to retire after three months.

          "The Army Chief was removed because he failed to give satisfactory explanation on why the government orders were ignored," Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told reporters.

          Gen Katawal, however, declined to step down, according to media reports. He called an emergency meeting of top Generals at the Army Headquarters, private radio Nepal FM reported. The Maoist government's decision came despite domestic and international calls against such a move, including from India.

          India earlier repeatedly conveyed its concerns to Nepal over the Maoists-led government's plans to sack Gen Katawal. After returning from a whirlwind trip to New Delhi, Indian Ambassador Rakesh Sood met Prachanda on April 26, their fourth meeting in 10 days amid Army-government stand-off here. The Maoists' move came a fortnight after they served an ultimatum to Gen Katawal, seeking his clarification on recruitments by military, its "hastiness" in reinstating eight generals retired by the government and its decision not to participate in the National Games.

          He had furnished his reply contending that he had not disobeyed the government's directives on removing eight generals and halting recruitment in the military.

          Following the Government's decision to fire him, a defiant Gen Katawal said the Prime Minister had no authority to remove him, the private radio said. The Cabinet meeting was boycotted by ministers belonging to four coalition partners, including the second largest constituent CPN-UML. Others who boycotted belonged to Madhesi People's Rights' Forum, Sadbhavana Party and CPN-United.

          The ministers from the four parties walked out of the meeting in protest soon after Prachanda proposed sacking the army chief, said Sunil Manandhar, General secretary of CPN-United, a member of the ruling five-party alliance.

          Prachanda made the proposal despite opposition from other parties, he said, adding the Maoists got into self isolation by making the unilateral decision -- which needs the endorsement from the President.

           

          During the meeting of the High Level Political Mechanism, the Prime Minister was advised by the Maoists' coalition partners not to make the decision in a hurry but he did not listen, Manandhar said. The government has forwarded the Cabinet decision to sack the army chief to President Ram Baran Yadav, who is yet to endorse it. President Yadav is currently busy consulting legal experts and political leaders on the matter. Unless the President endorses the Prime Minister's decision, it will not come into effect, legal experts said. According to sources, Gen Katawal was inside the army headquarters and discussing the matter with the top Generals. Main opposition Nepali Congress and 16 other political parties had for long been opposing the Maoists' plans to remove the army chief.

          Soon after the Cabinet took the decision, there were reports of rallies here both in favour and against the move to sack the army chief. Nepal Students Union affiliated to opposition Nepali Congress organised protest shows in front of various colleges against the Maoists' decision to sack the army chief.

          Maoist-affiliated students and cadres of Young Communist League also demonstrated welcoming the decision. Security personnel have been deployed at various sensitive areas to maintain law and order amid reports that Maoists were burning tyres and blocking roads.

           

          Nepali Congress acting President Shushil Koirala, former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and leader of Terai Madhesh Democratic Party Mahanta Thakur met President Yadav and discussed the latest political situation. Nepali Congress has also convened an all-party meeting, excluding Maoists, to discuss the situation emerging out of the sacking of the army chief.

          CPN-UML too is holding a crucial meeting of its Standing Committee to come out with a stand on the matter while the Maoists are engaged in internal discussions.

          The Maoists' unilateral decision to sack the army chief was made with "ill intention" and was "illegal", said constitutional lawyer Dinesh Tripathi. This may derail the peace process and obstruct the Constitution drafting, he said. Since the government itself is in minority, the decision can be questionable on legal grounds, Tripathi said.

           

          Taliban militants hold 2,000 villagers as human shields: Report

          London Taliban militants were holding 2,000 people in Buner district of restive North West Frontier Province in Pakistan to use them as human shields in case the army attacked. Taliban's move came as Pakistani forces stepped up their campaign to retake territory in the districts of Buner, Dir and Swat. The military said they had killed more than 100 militants and lost several soldiers since fighting began on Tuesday.

          Taliban militants are holding 2,000 people as human shields in Pir Baba in Buner district, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.

          "Kidnapping has become routine in our village. Armed Taliban were picking up people and then demanding a huge ransom for their release," said an elderly refugee now living with his family in a tent in Timergara, a town in Dir. According to the paper, many of the 90,000 refugees fleeing the conflict zone in NWFP welcomed the military action despite their anger at being forced to leave their homes.

          The militants promised to disarm but instead moved their forces into neighbouring Dir and Buner, about 100 km from federal capital triggering panic in Pakistan and heightening fears in the US about the stability of the nuclear-armed state.

          Although Pakistani officers described their onslaught as a "mopping up" operation, much of Buner remained under Taliban control, the report said.

           
          Bengal Red Fort: As voice of discontent rises, the Party is in a rectification rush

          At Bimal Dasgupta Bhavan, the CPM office adjacent to Durgapur's gleaming City Centre, party comrades are unsure of the name of the Congress candidate contesting the newly formed Burdwan-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat. "I think she is called Begum Nasreen," says one. No, corrects another, her name is Begum Nargis.

          Nasreen or Nargis (it is Nargis), the Opposition doesn't really matter — old habits continue to die hard in these parts, it seems.

          If the districts of Bankura, Birbhum, Purulia, West Midnapore and Burdwan together comprise the "Red Fort" of Bengal, Burdwan is its very epicentre.

          The district, which has witnessed a vibrant "reindustrialisation" process centred around Durgapur since 1994, is also the state's granary — land struggles of an earlier era and extensive rural credit schemes have led to high productivity. The fields are never fallow; rice cultivation through the year has turned the golden grain into a "cash crop" in many parts of the district.

          After delimitation, the number of Lok Sabha seats in Burdwan has come down from four to three (Burdwan-Durgapur, Burdwan East and Asansol), with some segments becoming part of Bolpur and Bishnupur constituencies.

          Burdwan has thrown up some of the biggest communist leaders of Bengal — Benoy Choudhury, Harekrishna Konar, Rabin Sen, and currently Nirupam Sen among a host of others — and the CPM's famed "organisational machinery" works better here than anywhere else, party insiders often claim.

          That is why party workers are confident of retaining the Red Fort again, with the caveat — "If we lose even a single seat in Burdwan, it means we are losing Bengal."

          Yet despite the workers' confidence, party leaders betray no sense of complacency. The main reason for that is the jolt received less than a year ago during the panchayat polls. Compared to other districts, Burdwan fared well — the CPM winning 59.34 per cent of the vote. But the loss of 70 (out of 270) gram panchayats and erosion at the lowest level of the panchayat system was bad enough, impelling the district leadership to go in for an "intensive introspection and rectification" campaign to repair the cracks that had appeared on the walls of their citadel.

          According to CPM leaders, the panchayat election review showed that the main reason for losses was not the "Nandigram and Singur effect" as the media would like to believe. More mundane but disturbing reasons were responsible.

          One was the lack of Left unity at the grassroots. Of greater significance, though, were the unpopularity of village-level party leaders and the "structural" problems emanating from new welfare scheme norms.

          After the review, district-level leaders held "interactive" sessions in village after village to find out the causes of the people's disenchantment with the CPM. One common complaint was that party activists had become "arrogant"; the other was that CPM panchayat leaders often favoured their own when giving out BPL cards or choosing beneficiaries for various government welfare schemes such as Indira Awas Yojana and pension benefits.

          As part of the "rectification" programme that followed these interactive sessions, village-level functionaries were told to mend their ways in dealing with the people and in some cases were removed from the party. The second problem is more intractable.

          According to Amal Haldar, CPM district secretary, the central government's decision to divide the poor into BPL and APL (below and above poverty level) categories is itself flawed — "a man earning Rs 12.26 a day is BPL and one who earns Rs 12.29 is APL. If a man sends his child to school or has sanitation at home, or has four shirts, he is denied BPL status — this is playing havoc with education and sanitation programmes in the villages because people would rather not go in for them if it means losing out on a BPL card."

          And choosing beneficiaries out of hundreds of BPL cardholders is a bigger headache. The CPM's Durgapur MLA, Diprendu Chakroborty, points out that if there is a quota of just 10 per village for a particular scheme and there are 290 BPL card holders in that village, the remaining 280 are bound to feel deprived and accuse the local leaders of "favouritism".

          In order to minimise the problem, "we have decided to take people into confidence at every stage as far as possible. There should be total transparency in choosing beneficiaries and the villagers should have a direct say," Chakroborty says.

          Both Haldar and Chakroborty underline that this is what the CPM's so-called organisational machinery is all about. "Regular monitoring, regular self-criticism, learning from the results of each exam (panchayat, Assembly, Lok sabha), that is what we do 365 days a year," says Chakroborty. Adds Haldar: "Amra kaaj kori, kaaj korte bhool kori, bhool hole taar sanshodhan kori (we work, while working we make mistakes, and then we seek to correct our mistakes)."

          Trade union leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Jibon Roy takes the argument further. The CPM is not just a political party in this part of the world; it is a world unto itself. "Earlier, we were involved in land struggles or the trade union movement. Now we are everywhere, in every field — social, cultural, sports, education, entrepreneurship, women's development. Shukhe, dukkhe, janmo theke burning ghat porjonto, aamra thaki. (In sorrow and joy, from the moment of birth till the cremation ground, we are always with the people.)"

          That all-pervasive nature of "the Party", we discover, can be both reassuring and oppressive. Just as the party benefits from the dedication of the bulk of its cadres, it also loses out because, over the past 30 years of continuous rule, many of them are seen to be arrogant or self-serving.

          In Durgapur, the owners of Sova Ispat Alloys Ltd as well as its workers swear by the CPM. The owners talk of their "problem-free" relations with the Left Front government and the many subsidies offered to woo industry post-1994, while the workers insist that only the "red flag" is their saviour.

          But as we drive from Durgapur to Burdwan and onto Katwa past fields laden with a golden harvest, farm labourers — taking a break from cutting the crop under a sweltering afternoon sun — are vocal with their complaints. The effects of the "rectification" programme have clearly not reached them.

          At Nigon village (which is now part of the Bolpur seat) a group of men and women, who refuse to give their names, insist that this time they will vote en masse against the CPM because the local leaders only help themselves. No, they are not sure if things will be better under the Trinamul Congress but there is no harm giving them a chance, they say.

          A little distance away, there are similar complaints of favouritism and arrogance against CPM panchayat members in Dormut village but the villagers make a significant comment. "CPM party bhalo, kormi ra kharaab" (the CPM is a good party, but its workers are bad.)"

          At Nasharathpur, a small kasba that falls under the Burdwan East constituency, a boisterous group of Trinamul workers are prematurely celebrating victory. "The panchayat polls cracked the citadel — now it is set to crumble," they exult, buoyed by the fact that for the first time in memory, villagers in the red zone are openly stating their decision to vote Trinamul.

          In Katwa, Antara Banerjee, who works with an NGO, makes a telling point. "This time Trinamul is making all the noise, the Party's supporters are silent."

          The huge margins by which the CPM won seats in Burdwan are certain to come down, but it will still hold sway, she says, adding: "They may face dents and bruises, but the only way Bengal can be without CPM is if the Party takes voluntary retirement…".

           
          32 US banks collapse in '09; three more fail in one day
           
          New York Starting the month on a sour note, three more American lenders have been closed down, making it an average of six bank failures every month in 2009.

          A staggering 32 banks have gone belly up so far this year, a toll much higher than 25 collapses for the whole of 2008.

          The latest to join the league of failures are Silverton Bank, Citizens Community Bank and America West Bank.

          According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is often appointed as the receiver for failed banks, all the three entities were shut down on May 1.

          At the time of closing, Silverton Bank had assets worth USD 4.1 billion and deposits to the tune of USD 3.3 billion.

          A total of 46 banks have collapsed since September 2008 when the current financial crisis turned severe, following the bankruptcy of Wall Street titan Lehman Brothers.

          US banks especially the smaller ones are being shuttered almost every week in 2009, as the world's largest economy continues to contract at a rapid pace.

          In another reminder of the grim economic scenario, a stunning 57 banks have failed since the start of January 2008.

          Interestingly, the American economy officially slipped into recession in December 2007.

          Even as there are hopes of an early economic revival despite a 6.1 per cent GDP contraction in the first quarter of 2009, the number of bank failures are expected to rise in the absence of any significant thaw in the frozen credit markets.

          On April 24, four banks -- First Bank of Idaho, First Bank of Beverly Hills, Heritage Bank and American Southern Bank -- were shuttered, whereas the same number of entities went belly up on February 13.

          Eighty four US banks have been shuttered since 2000 and a major chunk of them happened after the financial turmoil turned worse late last year.

          Meanwhile, FDIC data show that Citizens Community Bank had total assets of nearly USD 45.1 million and deposits of USD 43.7 million as on December 31, 2008.

          Further, as on the same date, America West Bank's assets stood at USD 299.4 million, while deposits were worth USD 284.1 million.

          Riverside Bank of the Gulf Coast and Sherman County Bank, FirstCity Bank, Freedom Bank of Georgia, Pinnacle Bank of Oregon and Security Savings Bank, are among the entities which have gone belly up in 2009.


            Is this going to be a long recession?

          3 May 2009, 1845 hrs IST, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar , ET Bureau

          There is much talk of green shoots heralding the end of the global recession. Stock markets are shooting up globally.


          But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just issued its gloomiest forecast ever. It says world GDP, which has never shrunk since the Great Depression, will shrink 1.3% in 2009, and then inch up to 1.9% in 2010. Growth of less than 2% indicates a global recession. So, serious recovery will not come before 2011.

          The government predicts a rapid recovery in the second half of this fiscal year. The RBI projects 6.5% growth in 2009-10 . But the IMF's projection for India is just 4.8%. Maybe the IMF will revise its projections upwards . Yet, we must ask, why is the IMF so downbeat?

          Indian economists focus largely on the Indian scene, while the IMF focuses on the dismal world economy. History shows that recessions accompanied by a financial crisis are deep and long. India has no financial crisis, and so Indians are complacent. But the world has a gigantic financial crisis.

          The IMF sees world growth being strangled by what it calls negative feedback loops. The financial crisis first reduces cash flow to producing sectors. This causes a recession, with producing sectors slashing production and employment. But the recession then makes the financial crisis worse, more corporations and individuals default on bank loans. The banks respond by cutting credit further, and this hits production and employment further. This is the negative feedback loop.


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          The IMF now estimates that lending institutions globally may eventually have to write down a staggering $4 trillion of bad debts, four times India's GDP! The US is worst off, having to write down $2.7 trillion. But Europe also has to write down $1.2 trillion, and Japan $149 billion. Faced with this red ink, some of the biggest global banks are technically bust. They need to raise huge sums of fresh capital, enough to write off their bad debts and start lending again. But who will supply so much? Certainly not private investors, who have already lost a fortune. So governments globally have mounted a massive rescue effort. In the US, public-private partnerships are also being tried to provide fresh billions.

          Banks have lent too much in relation to their own tangible capital. To move to the point where their loans come down to 16.5 times their tangible equity — a conservative target — US banks have to raise an additional $500 billion, European banks $950 billion, and British banks $250 billion of equity. These are staggeringly large sums, considering how much rescue money has already been dished out.

          Yet, until the financial sector is made solvent again, it will not restart lending fast enough to kickstart the world economy. The world needs to go from negative to positive feedback loops. For that, banks must lend much more to productive sectors, which will then raise production and employment, which will then boost bank profits and encourage further lending. That's how the current vicious cycle can give way to a virtuous one.
          http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Is-this-going-to-be-a-long-recession-/articleshow/4477792.cms
           
          Obama's cowardice hits India too

          22 Apr 2009, 0316 hrs IST, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, ET Bureau

           

          India cannot return to rapid growth till the world economy recovers. And that cannot happen till the US economy recovers. Alas, the Obama

          administration is prolonging the recession by avoiding surgery to remove dead wood from its financial sector.

          Some call this cowardice. Others, such as former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson, writing in The Atlantic, say Wall Street has captured the White House. This is no longer a leftist accusation. Johnson says the US now resembles Russia, where business oligarchs and government officials protect each others' financial interests, at the expense of the economy.

          This is surely an exaggeration. Yet it highlights the priority given by the Obama administration to save the titans of Wall Street rather than end the recession quickly. It is now clear that the toxic assets—securities and loans with impaired values — of US banks are $2-2.8 trillion, while tangible assets are only $1 trillion. Technically, the financial sector is comprehensively bust.

          It needs to recognise the losses, writing off trillions. But for that somebody must first inject trillions of new equity into the banks. Private investors will not do so. The market solution would be to force insolvent banks into bankruptcy, with shareholders and creditors taking a huge hit, and their good assets being auctioned (at bargain prices) to surviving financiers. Many titans of Wall Street will disappear, but others will rise to take their place.

          But while this will clean up the mess, the financial sector will collapse, perhaps converting the recession into a depression. Politicians are unwilling to risk this. Their preferred alternative is to rescue insolvent banks to thwart systemic failure. So, they have provided billions to the very banks responsible for the initial mess. But the public has protested loudly that this helps horrible bankers rather than the economy, and is yelling for blood. A chastened Congress refuses to sanction additional rescue funds.

          This has led to a troubling impasse. The government views banks as too important to fail. The public views banks as too plutocratic to be rescued with taxpayer's trillions. Result: the US has a zombie financial sector, technically dead but kept on life support. It simply does not have the capital to increase lending and thus spark economic growth.

          A plan last fall for the government to buy toxic assets at a premium was shot down as a gift to horrible bankers. Now, a private-public partnership is proposed to buy the toxic assets. This too has been widely criticised as a way of subsidising private financiers to buy with little risk and huge potential gains.

          Accounting norms have been tweaked to permit zombie banks to pretend they are alive and solvent. The hope is that the public will swallow this fiction, animal spirits will revive the economy, and the consequent growth of bank profits will eventually suffice to write of the toxic assets. Very optimistic!

          The obvious option is for the government to temporarily take over the insolvent banks, examine their books, and segregate their toxic assets into a "bad bank". This will clean up the balance sheets of the banks, which can start lending again, and then be re-privatised at a profit.

          This will not be a slide into socialism, and actually makes market sense. It mimics bankruptcy procedures — the owners and creditors of existing banks will take a huge hit — without causing the systemic financial collapse that formal bankruptcy would. The government will aim not to run the banks (as Indira Gandhi did), but to restructure them (as in bankruptcy) and sell them.

          This solution has been suggested by the Financial Times and The Economist, which are surely not socialists. Simon Johnson writes: "The challenges the United States faces are familiar to the people at the IMF. If you hid the name of the country (USA) and just showed them the numbers, there is no doubt what old IMF hands would say: nationalise troubled banks and break them up as necessary."

          http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Columnists/Swaminathan-S-A-Aiyar/Obamas-cowardice-hits-India-too/articleshow/4432447.cms

           

          N-deal: India is becoming sanctions-proof

          12 Apr 2009, 0416 hrs IST, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar , TNN

           

          The manifestos of the BJP and Communist Party (Marxist) accuse the Congress of bartering away India's security in the nuclear deal with the US. They
          worry that India will be dragooned into signing other treaties that limit its nuclear options, and open it to nuclear sanctions if it ever tests a bomb again.

          This is a needless fear. Current developments suggest that, in a decade or so, India itself will become a major nuclear equipment supplier to the whole world.

          The multinationals of France, US and Japan want to manufacture nuclear equipment in India to meet not just Indian but global demand. Once India becomes part of the global supply chain, it will become effectively sanctions-proof. As a supplier of global equipment, it will be in a position to impose sanctions on others, not just be at the receiving end.
          India plans to set up several massive nuclear power parks.

          The sites chosen so far are Jaitapur in Maharashtra, Haripur in West Bengal, Patisonapur in Orissa, Mithirvirdi in Gujarat and Kowadi in Andhra Pradesh. Six to eight reactors, of 1,000-1,650 MW, will be installed at each nuclear park. Negotiations are in progress with four global suppliers, GE-Hitachi, Toshiba-Westinghouse, Areva of France, and Atomstroyeksport of Russia.

          Earlier, when South Korea and China placed major orders for nuclear power plants, their deals mandated transfer of technology and localisation of equipment manufacture. India will follow the same path. All foreign nuclear suppliers will transfer technology and indigenise production in India.

          They will do so enthusiastically, not reluctantly. Visiting teams of MNCs from France and the US have expressed great keenness to set up joint ventures in India to meet not just Indian but global demand for equipment. Why? India and China have emerged as low-cost producers of electrical machinery. Western manufacturers find the cost of new nuclear plants spiralling, casting doubts on the viability of nuclear power. To survive, they must slash costs. They can best do so by outsourcing production to India and China.

          For decades, not a single nuclear power plant has come up in the US, UK, or Germany. Nuclear power has been derided as expensive and unsafe. But now global warming is a pressing issue. Nuclear power is suddenly seen as essential to produce carbon-free electricity.

          The Copenhagen conference later this year will set ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions. One key strategy will be to tax fossil fuels, either by a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system for emissions. This taxation of fossil fuels promises to make nuclear energy economically viable again, provided equipment costs are kept down.

          With cost control, the demand for nuclear equipment could quadruple. Existing capacity is not remotely enough for massive new projects in the pipeline. All major suppliers need to create new capacity. And they intend to create much of this in countries which have skills, low costs, and large local demand, India and China.

          Only two plants in the whole world (in France and Japan) can make the giant forgings needed for large nuclear power plants. Bharat Forge has recently become the second biggest auto forging company in the world, thanks to its success in cutting costs. It has now signed a pact with Areva to manufacture nuclear equipment, including giant forgings . Larsen & Toubro has signed a similar nuclear equipment deal with Mitsubishi. The Jindals and Anil Ambani also appear interested. All are formidable low-cost producers.

          Till now, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has held a virtual monopoly on large power plants. Now, Bharat Forge has tied up with Alsthom and L&T with Toshiba to manufacture conventional power plants. These can later be upgraded to produce complete nuclear power plants.

          India may still find it difficult to get plutonium reprocessing or ura nium enrichment technology. This may be true of some hi-tech com ponents too. So, India may not be come self-sufficient in every aspect of nuclear power. But if it becomes a major exporter of nuclear equip ment, it will become effectively sanc tions-proof.

          If all the global manufacturers have plants in India itself, import sanctions will lose their meaning And if India itself becomes a vital supplier of nuclear components to the rest of the world, others cannot impose sanctions on India without suffering supply disruptions them selves.

          That's why the biggest hawks in our nuclear establishment, who badly want nuclear testing in the dis tant future, can relax on the issue of sanctions. De facto, India will be come a member of the privileged P 5 when it becomes part of the glob al supply chain of nuclear equip ment in the next 10 years.

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