I was not born when, as literature says, the high caste rulers oppressed, rebuked, and castigated the low caste unfortunates. That it is still prevalent in some places in India, atleast proves that the literature was not completely incorrect. However,... Read The Article
Very practical and earthy indeed...must say...not just reservation, not just family values and culture and principles, not just politics, not just one aspect, the fact deliberated upon hold good for almost all aspects of life...it is a naked truth we all close our eyes to, for our own so called easy going life.....
( Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:53 )
John Q Public
well, it was a good article. Now, you know why a lot of folks are getting the heck outta there and go somewhere else. Some call it 'brain drain' while others call it ' i am outta here'..
( Posted: Tuesday , May 13, 2008 at 22:59 )
vinay pandey
I don`t understand what Mr. Saurabh want to say ? Castesism and parental morality and General morality of people 3 different and very very relevent issues intermingled together and in end Mr. saurabh don`t know what he want to say.
( Posted: Sunday , May 04, 2008 at 22:48 )
Well, Mr Vinay...Mr Saurabh wants to drive the very simple idea home what goes around comes around...amoly deliberated by him in the subject line and message body as well...
The moral of the entire intermingling being "Be thoughtful enough in all that you do, because its not a one time affair and all such things in life have a repurcussion, a boomerang effect....
You must have heard the famous lines in Urdu as well, "Palon ne khata ki thi, Saza sadiyon ne payi hai...." Whatever we give out, comes back...If we commit mistakes what we call popularly call generation gap revolution, it brings in miseries for generations to come...change for the better, but messing up of values, culture, principles, and the canons of life will make life miserable...
Seems tough to digest and not a very theoretically impressive BLOG so to say, but very very practical, and very earthy....pure foreplay of practical emoionalism....Well done Saurabh...Keep provoking such off the track ..sensible and less popular but effective advocation of marale....
Vande mataram....
( Posted by Raginee on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:36 )
anurag saxena
i feel this is high time every indian should underst and.That this politicians do not want the real upliftment of people who are underprivilege,they just want to get benifited by all this ideas.at least the press should stand and do some thing on unified front.
( Posted: Friday , May 02, 2008 at 23:46 )
Vikram
Although what you have written is very much true, but we as humans also have the ability to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them again in the future. But here we have a case where we as human beings are repeating the same old mistakes over and over again.
Reservation doesn't seem like a solution for upliftment but more like a tool for promoting castism.
I even wonder whether i can be proud to be in such a nation.
( Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 01:34 )
vishrant
in your post there is past and there is future .... where is present
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 15:54 )
Read between the lines for the present Mr Vishrant...And you know what...one very good thing about the present and may be one reason it has not been deliberated much upon as you say....the present is still with us and we can change it for better and may be Mr Saurabh s projection of future also changes due to those who read this one and tried proving what he is sayign is wrong.....Isnt it?what say....
( Posted by Raginee on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 10:40 )
preethi
Dear Saurabh Saksena This is an excellent piece of blog.This system of reservation was introduced years back for the upliftment of the backward people...but why do we have to continue with that even now...The thought with which it was started was good but there should be an end to it when the effect reaches a saturation point. The quota system is actually putting meritorious students down...Do we have any value added to the nation because of this???If the government feels that some good has to be done to the people then all this favourism can be given to a student based on his economic conditions irrespective of his caste.Why dont politicians work for the betterment of the people rather than their own needs...A change has to be implemented soon if it would change the lives of so many people...Hope the government brings a change soon. But im against the thought of women misusing the 498a bill...are all men too good? Dont differentiate people as women and men...whoever does the mistake is blameworthy...
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 14:54 )
Shiraj Kavathar
I have always been an average student i mean in the top 20% in whatever exam i have appeared for. And beleive me i am not gifted or donot posses super excellent talents. To get to the top 20 % i had to put in 120% of efforts of an average student. Now technically speaking if i was in the top 20% i should get my worth and should be alloted a seat after the people above me are placed. But look at the irony of this free and fair country. Even after putting 120% efforts I have to wait for the smart 20% above me to get placed into the scarce seats and then the fortunate OBCs SC/ST NT NTI NTII NTIII Kashmirir Migrants Girls Quota etc to get placed which takes abt 59 % of the seats. Now the remaining 20% of the seats half of which are paid seats and half of which are beyond my limits of travelling. I am left with barely 3%. HUH... Now i have completd my education and post graduation from mumbai because i cant afford to go abroad .. but i will always have this grudge against the creamy layer of OBC ST SC and whatever undeserved candidates have taken my well deserved seats from me. As the author says what goes around come around .. or as newton says .. for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.. This pain caused to me and many other open Candidates will come around. I dont mean to avenge it but its the law of nature.
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 12:31 )
v r prasad
Hegemony of mediocrity rapes excellence : It’s not that excellence is not appreciated in our country; nor is it that it’s not tolerated; it’s systematically raped. Ethnic cleansing of excellence by the hegemony of mediocrity goes unabated perpetuated by all parties. Their only interest is vote bank politics and fanning up communal politics to usurp and retain power.
• Growing up in Chennai, I had always admired Guindy Engg College then. You know what it is today? Any lessons, anybody? • When due to private investments in higher education, so many institutions have come up, instead of regulating and nurturing them, we are creating many more IITs/ IIMs with huge sums of public money to serve a limited population. Qui bono? • What is the impact of education cess that the public have been coughing up? For Chidambaram’s brilliant financial engineering of the country’s balance sheet? • On the creamy layer issue, the great uplifter of the downtrodden, Karunanidhi says, “Even the Class IV employee in the government gets Rs 2.4 lakhs per annum. So, what creamy layer are we talking about”. “Well, Sir, you know what the per capita income of the country is? Whose interests are you trying to protect?” • There is a class calling themselves OBC that is emerging which is enjoying political power, “faltu” degrees and positions, control of wealth and virtually all businesses including education! And this nouveau riche is a greater threat to the really poor and socially backward class who will never get to enjoy any of this, because the smarter ones who were deprived of this are already serving the other countries. India is well and truly becoming a country of mediocres thanks to this emergence of the OBC and exodus of the smarter sections of the “once-privileged”. The socially and economically backward – well, they don’t count! • Is reservation self-liquidating as envisaged originally? – that is, will it become redundant once we get to utopia. Don’t be kidding.
( Posted: Monday , April 14, 2008 at 10:07 )
Sundip
The SC/STs have been favored in India for years because they elect politicians. They are a huge voting block. It is voting strength that matters in democracies and a democracy is therefore a failure. In the US women are a huge voting block and politicians favor women so as to gain their support and win the elections.
If it is the SC/STs who show their muscle power in India, it is women who show their muscles in US courts because most laws favor women in the US.
Both these countries India and the US are examples of the failure of democracy.
The abuse of IPC section 498a by Indian women in India so as to harass innocent men is not an example of the failure of democracy. It is an example of the failure of dictatorship. Indira Gandhi the dictator had made that law in 1983. Hurting innocent men to protect the oridinary woman is not democracy.
Given power to women or SC/STs, they can be mean and nasty. This is the lesson to learn.
Solution to the problem is therefore to continue the mistreatment of women and SC/STs in any way possible until laws change and justice and equality are served. There are countless ways in which one can harass, mistreat and illtreat SC/STs and women to send a proper signal to them.
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