My Verbal Constipation

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

musings on reservation over free coffee

so im back in office yes? im sitting around... content... just going through my blogs rejoicing the fact that my lame hai kus actually got such a response when all of a sudden... a voice in the background. that familiar voice, not unpleasant o no... but still one that can send shivers down one's spine, is heard in the far distance. yes the boss is back in town, and my happy disguised unemployment does not get past him! so what hapens? im sent away into the editting room to watch yet another story on the recent reservation policy thats been proposed by that wretched arjun singh.

like a good girl i sat and watched. listened to what everyone has to say, heard what i myself went on air and said, but nothing really struck a chord. then i got back to my cabin and as i sipped on my free coffee... thoughts satrted formulating.

let me add here that the following points are not filed in any coherent order. just random thoughts that i decided to write as points to spare me the trouble of linking them and making flow.

brief over view: arjun singh hrd minister has proposed an addtitional 27.5% reservation for obc's. this is apart from the already existing reservation of 22% for sc, st'c and obc's. in other words... close to 50% reservation. but the reason for all the hoo haa is cos this has been proposed central govt. not only for government organisations but for all private higher educational institutions like the iit's and iim's as well.

1) reservation is there so that people who do not have the resources to get a decent education or a job are not side lined. however popular notion is that these ppl are the bc's obc's and sc st's.

2) the caste system as we are repeatedly told is a social injustice. we're all one and the same. we're all equal in the eyes of the law. such a thing as a cast biologically does not even exist. etc. yet the very basis of this reservation is a persons caste. soo....... that leaves me a bit stumped.

3) if these so called backward castes are so deprived... then why does a collectors son need reservation just cos he's sc?

4) wouldnt it make more sense to have reservation in the primary schooling level so that in the more competetive world of higher studies, everyone is equipped to make it on the grounds of merit?

5) ok so first generations need reservation, first generation to get an educattion. true. but why do the second or third generations need it?

6) if 50% of the students in an institution are going to get in purely by virtue of there birth... how do we ensure quality? especially in the iits and iims

7) unless of course a solid creamy layer system is established. which means another mandal comission or something along the likes getting involved, which means the govt will use this as an excuse to hike up our taxes(i dont really know if they can do that but it suits my rant) etc.

8) by making things so easy for the so called deprived we are merely making the weak weaker.

9) god dammit if everyone, irrespective of caste or creed, are taught well in private or public schools, made to mix with eachother, then we might actually get this god forsaken notion of "caste" out of our future generation's heads.

hmmm.... yes the rant is done... there are more obscure thoughts trying to find their way out... but my coffe's getting cold and there's nothing i hate more than good coffee gone bad.

until the next update on the reservation mess up. this is gitanjali raman signing off.

p.s. for further information check out ibnlive.com (what cheap publicity stunts i use)

p.p.s. we are one you and i we are one... imagine all the people living life in peace... sharing all the world... down caste system... so go merit based admissions!

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