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Dear
Friends!
A few concerned open-minded Dalits, who are members of the
Social Study Circle, meet regularly every week over a Paper on a chosen
specific Contemporary Issue concerning or affecting us. The Paper specifically
prepared by one of us, or an old important Paper revised and updated by any one
or some of us, are taken up for discussions. Each Paper, after study and
discussions, is appropriately edited and given a shape or finalized, adopted
and included in our Home Page dalitindia.
We welcome all our Friends to offer their Comments. Than
appreciations and praise or congratulations and thanks, we are keenly looking
forward to more and more Constructive criticisms and Value-based-Comments. We
try to avoid semantic debates or argumentative exchanges, on non-issues by
those who want to score over others, indulge in one-upmanship or try to putdown
others, or have some axe to grind, or a grievance that they can not or do not
want to, or are unable to put forward reasonably and rationally.
We therefore request our visitors and readers, to analyze
each and every Paper on the Page in detail, completely and thoroughly, and
offer their valuable suggestions, so that all of us here could get some fresh
insights, or we could update and improve them. Only that would make our Papers
precise, and clear our thoughts and perspectives. That would also help us to
clearly focus the attention of our readers, and adjust or change the approach
to the problem where necessary. In this, your suggestions and inputs may be the
most essential ones, to clear the concepts and improve the quality, depth and
value of any one of our Paper, or the entire Home Page. That can make many of
our friends sharp, and enable them to respond better, appropriately and
incisively, to all the deliberate attacks and criticisms by our antagonists.
This would surely help us to squarely meet others, who have great wealth power,
big influence and wide network of contacts.
Friends, in our Home Page, we have deliberately chosen not
to give credit to individual authors of the Papers, lest they and their papers
are adversely and unfairly commented, only because a few don't like some
specific Writers due to some prejudices and biases. Also, we like to spare the
authors from the jealousy of others, and also being unfairly accused of writing
or preparing their Papers just to establish themselves or project their images
for recognition, or with other ulterior motives of achieving some vain private
goals of their own personal misty future, or as trying to dominate the thought
process of others, or as imposing their views by virtue of position or the office
they hold. We are also aware of the fact that, now writing and speaking about
Dalits, Dalit Issues, Dalit Problems, Dalit Dilemmas and Dalit Oppressions, is
more of a fashion and hobby with some, and anybody and everybody have now
started to write for name and money. We are aware that, Dalit debates have
became more and more confused and complex, even though the field of late has
become a Gold Mine, a shortcut to fame and recognition, a ladder to offices of
profit and positions of comfort and convenience, and hence there is much to
gain and harvest. There is also the sad fact that today there are many
Professional writers who don't mind stealing others' thoughts and works, and
openly and shamelessly indulge in plagiarism. Further, there are others, who get
promoted by their spouses and other close family members in positions of power
and authority, even though they as individuals are weak, ignorant, incapable of
thinking or writing or discussing or speaking in public and before others, or
compose a sentence completely and coherently, or articulate their thoughts or
any logic or argument on any issue and put them across meaningfully and
purposefully, either in English or even in their own lingo or mother tongue.
Yet, their Articles and Papers get published, appear regularly in journals,
magazines, big newspapers, and in National and in many International Seminar
Proceedings. Thus, they get themselves unfairly and undeservingly promoted. We
also want to guard against such a situation, lest we also become unwillingly a
ladder for such individuals/ couples/ families who try to push up their
undeserving spouses/ family members further and further, at the cost and in
place of other, and grab or corner the dues of others batter qualified and more
capable.
It is for these reasons that, we have deliberately and
consciously decided to not to give Credits to Author of the Papers in our Web
Site. However, We, the Members of the SSC here, do collectively take all the
Responsibility for the Papers we do discuss, finalize and approve for placing
on the Web Site. We all are always ready to respond, react and answer to any
Comments and Queries on any issue at any time. We may at times, place on the
Web Site, some good Papers by some experts or eminent writers as Reference Materials
or Background Papers for our discussions, or on the Dalit Issues. Since, they
basically not being SSC Papers, will be duly acknowledged and bear the names of
the Authors, to avoid being accused or charged of unfairly taking Others' works
for our use as if they are ours. We may also include at times Papers by other
Guests specially invited to present a particular Paper, or talk before us on
some important issue. But these will be exceptions, and remain only far and
few.
Friends, all the Papers in our web site - the papers by
the members of SSC, or those in the Guest Section, or those by others included
as Reference Material and Background Papers, are available for use of our
Readers. Anyone can freely Quote them, or Criticize them and discuss them in their
Speeches, Writings and Papers. But give credit to our web site dalitindia or
refer them as SSC papers. We will be grateful to the users, if they can duly
and specifically acknowledge the Authors whenever they refer to the Guest
Papers or the Reference Material and Background Papers they had seen on our web
site.
Friends, please also put up with us for the ghost errors
that may creep up before you, as grammatical mistakes, mistakes in composition
and structure of the sentence, or the omissions of words and numbers in
between, or the loss of whole lines etc, during data entry and loading on the
web-site. We Promise to correct them by editing and updating the Papers from
time to time, hopefully at regular intervals.
Remaining in the Cause all Dalits and in Your Service,
EDITOR