Wednesday 19 March 2014

Of the reserved and the deserved!

With all this reservation frenzy around me ,a thought struck me if reservation is more of a luxury rather than a support. Its like we got numbers and free time to strike, let’s  be OBC, it’s in nowadays.  Lets don’t change for 60 years and then riot for being officially labelled as a handicapped community.. Being backwards out of choice and lack of will is the prerequisite for being reserved. Inform me if i am missing anything, but i don’t understand how being a poor Brahmin means more opportunities than a poor dalit. Building a nations workforce out of appeasing communities can have dangerous consequences .No wonder ,private sector is bringing all the investment in. Just pray that mayawati doesn’t  stage anshan  for reservation in Microsoft or oracle. DMK manifesto is promising reservation in private sector.It is more sensible to have a sectional lottery instead. Might fetch us some actually deserving candidates. Even after 60 years of continous reservation, the parties are taking pride in providing and expanding reservations while the other way round would be progress. But then again, a cheerleader team has a collective IQ and common sense more than our esteemed leaders.What could be more pathetic than this situation. Where the leaders are dalit ki beti rather than desh ki beti. Obviously when it comes to votes, common sense goes to dogs. A poor upper caste is more able than poor lower caste. This assumption automatically assigns more divinity to upper class voiding the whole idea of equality. Analogically, a Brahmin farmer from vidarbha who might have committed suicide doesn’t need aid as opposed to a SC IAS officers son. Gosh,the caste factor must have been tough on him.  Common sense would say protect the poor. But hey when has common sense ever prevailed in India. That’s even rare than an Olympic medal. Our leaders fail to understand that the current caste based model could be defective or misused if it hasn’t been able to ensure equality even after 60 years .But why would they introspect if further exploiting fetches them votes. They say “Give a man a fish, you would feed him for a day, teach him to fish , you feed him for life. What works in our country is teach a man to fish, give a free fishing rod ,reserve a sea patch for him, fetch him extra prices on his produce, get him a subsidised boat, get him subsidized petrol and do the same for his son again and again. Apparently, they are genetically handicapped. I beg to differ strongly, but that’s what a sane man could infer from the current situation. A common argument by reservation enthusiasts is that everyone has a right and the division should be proportionate to various classes. Correct me if i’am wrong, but didn’t exams use to work on merit and merit commanded eligibility. If the facilities are to proportionate, why care for merit, a lottery would work just fine. These people seem to have forgotten three words-merit, test, eligibility. Overzealous insecure enthusiasts might label me a casteist, but i am the least casteist  guy if you care to sit down and think with your head for a change .But then again, blackening faces and vandalism is more tempting than actually using our head. I would like to conclude by saying that what was once aimed to create equality is the one actually polarizing. Just think !!

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