Saturday, April 08, 2006

I'm a brahmin...and i'll blame fate for that. The return of Mandal's ghost, i can clearly see, would create chaos soon. With premier institutes like IITs/IIMs having 49.5% reservation, life's gonna be hell for the "normal" people.
Recently i read that for every seat in the IIT, there are 60 students competitng. Now this reservation would mean, 120 "non-previleged" people stuggling for 1 seat. Whereas for the "previleged", the competition reduces to 30 ppl per seat!!!
Can't anyone in India, fight a fair fight ANYWHERE ???? reservations, Reservations, RESERVATIONS !!!! be it for girls, lingual communities, OBCs, STs, SCs, NTs...in the end, the open category is left with almost nothing. Why did VP Singh clear the Mandal Commision report some 20 years ago ??? All these problems wouldn't have even arised.
Once in my class, the teacher asked who all of us were "backward castes"...a few raised hands. They were given a form and were told that there would be a fee-concession for them. There was a girl in my class who came to school everday in a cheuffer-driven Mercedes, and lived in a bungalow worth 60 lac (thats just an estimate). Guess wat....even she took the form!!! On the other hand...there was a tamil brahmin whose dad spent his last penny to educate his son...he got no such help! Why ??? Coz he was a brahmin!
What kind of justice is this?? Just because brahmins harassed the "backward" ppl for some 2000 years, would OBCs and SC/STs do the same for 2 milleniums from now ?????????
And again the brahmins would get back at them....don't laugh....this is how things are in India!! The people at the top lack sense, those at the bottom lack a voice!!
I can see some mass-movement like in Rang De Basanti coming up soon...coz the govt has gone TOO far!! Or there should be reservations for brahmins!! Any takers ?