---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daya Varma, Dr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 8, 2007 10:28 PM Subject: [foil] Letter to Frontline on Dalits To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sent to the following letter to Frontline: "The Editor Frontline Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, Chennai 600 002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sir, The coverage of atrocities against Dalits and ineffectiveness of existing legal provisions to ensure dignity for them in the December 29, 2006 issue of the Frontline (At a Crossroads) is timely and commendable. However, the main question is not the lack of "radical agenda for social transformation" in the Dalit movement but rather the apathy of progressive and left political parties to the Dalit issue. Dalits did not start the caste system and did not invite atrocities against themselves. What is therefore lacking in India is a radical platform of the left democratic political parties, dominated by caste Hindus, to physically defend Dalit rights and embark on a cultural transformation of the attitude of caste Hindus, perhaps in a more effective way than was undertaken by Gandhi. The onus of solving the Dalit question does not lie with the Dalit movement but rather with non-Dalit political parties. Sincerely, Daya R. Varma" _______________________________________________ Foil-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://insaf.net/mailman/listinfo/foil-l_insaf.net -- http://www.blogbharti.com/
