I appreciate William for giving his intellectual comment on this issue. I do agree with him that we must not see the birth of a person and reject if a person who comes out from his/her caste and merge with Dalit identity. I wonder if any one does this. I am not against Ms. Meena for writing for Dalits. If she is really interest to merge in Dalit identity become part and parcel of us, I would be happy. I also welcome many non-Dalits to do that. But what I observed about Ms. Meena for last several years is that she is not merging in Dalit ideology and Dalit identity rather she is using it for her own personal gain and propagating Tamilism and Dravidianism among Dalits. (After our strong resistance some of our youth stop running behind her). On the other hand she is doing her own networking with caste Hindu Shudra groups using her caste Hindu Shudra identity. She would not become this popular if she does not have her Shudra network. Gandhi was not a Dalit, but some point of time he said that he was not untouchable by birth, but by convention he was an Untouchable. Ramasamy also said prefer to call himself as a Pariah or Palla instead of calling him as a Shudra. I have never heard any such things from Ms. Meena. If you are a Non-Dalit tell frankly you are a non-Dalit. If you are a Dalit, then tell openly what you are. Here in this status, our concern is that many of our people believe that she is a Dalit woman. It is our duty to tell them that she is not our woman. If you are redefining Dalit is not by birth, but deeds, still she is not eligible to be a Dalit. She is liberated as per anti Brhaman, but not anti Sudras, who are the real culprits and perpetuate all Dalit atrocities in TN. Similarly Dalit issues is not just in India, it is in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other parts of the world too. Is she ready to take up Dalit issues in Sri Lanka, which is suppressed by Tamil Nationalist and LTTE Hindu terrorist group. She joins with the Tamil groups and fighting for their rights but silent about the rights of Muslims and Dalits in Sri Lanka. The second point is that we have to refute that Tamilsim/Dravidianism is an anti Hindu ideology, propagated by her and some other people, which is not true. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was clear in defining people with their identity even though he admire with them. He wrote a book on Sudras and dedicated that book to Phule, where he mentioned that he was a great Shudra leader of modern era. He wrote book on Untouchables he dedicated that book to Ravidas, Chokkamela and Nandanar, who are great Sakyan saints of medieval period. Identity is very important in the politics. Dalit politics need to protect the political identity of Dalits to safeguard the political rights they gained through this identity politics. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar  said, “My basis of my politics lies in the proposition that the Untouchables are not a sub-head or a sub-section of the Hindus (Tamils / Dravidiann), and that they are a separate and a distinct element in the national life of India, as a separate and distinct.” If Meena agrees with this and join with us as a Dalit, we welcome her. But if he asserts as Tamils/ Dravidians and joins with the Shudras, we will continue to fight against her hypocrisy politics as long as our people realize and stop propagating her. I do agree with you many Dalits, who born in our community, but do not stay or struggle for our rights. But we are not struggling only for Dalits who have Dalit consciousness and who are in movement, but we are struggling for all Dalits who are denied their rights for centuries, due to their birth as so called “Untouchable”. We also fight against Non Dalits who are trying to take away Dalit rights or misuse Dalit rights on the name of being Dalit consciousness or Dalit friends. We want Non Dalit to come and struggle for Dalit rights, but not to share Dalit rights. We do not give damn to any one who does not join with them, because what ever we achieved is because of our own struggle not by the struggle of “Mahatmas” or “Periyars” or “liberated women” like Meena…..