Reservations
Couldnt stay away from it myself,,,, its sweeping the country with protests,,, or so i hear in the media,,,, one word thats become the symbol of RDB type youth unification,,,, the names like 'Youth for equality', 'AIIMS doctors' have all become a rage in the internet media section if not the conventional media agencies,,,, so wat is my stand on the issue,,,, i gotto have a stand dont I??? Pro or Anti -R,.....
As the youth in the country is divided over the issue,,,, OBC's rejoicing at an increase in opportunites were as the so call 'General' category students beseeching opposition in favour of meritocracy,,,, it infurriates and confuses me ,,,, infurriated by the bold decision of the Govt without realising that 40% of India today is the youth,,,,without considering the cons of an abrupt action that history has shown caused lifes and destruction in the early 90's... the word of those times was the Mandal commision,,, it confused me wen i heard the screams of my seniors on schoold stages,,, "VP singh Hai Hai, Mandal commision hai hai",,,, schools were shut and i had a vacation unexplained for a month,,, but now a decade later in all seems to make sense,,,, the feeling and the protests,,,,,, the anger at the audacity of the govt to try and impose a legislation of such immense public significance on a population made of 40% youth in a matter of days,,,,,
there wasnt a word about it ,,,, there wasnt a discussion in the media,,,, there was nothin and then suddenly.,,,,, BOOOM!!!! 50% of the seats in our best education institutions were out of our reach,,,,, few weeks before the parliament session the news comes out,,,, well i dont blame the protests then,,,, it is a nation outcry at the apathy of the politicians,,,,,
the international media is equally curiuos,,,, many do not seem to comprehend the protests in a economic power risng against odds,,, an economic power booming with the feeling of development, of upliftment of the less fortunate,,,, they seem to ask... "Y do the people protest against reservations aimed at upliftment of the less fortunate?",,,,well because nothin can be farther from the truth,,,,,
the truth as percieved by those who protest is i feel very simple,..... you go to a regular high school... u have classmates that do not have any caste or creed ,,, they just have names,,, regular students ,,, regular minds, some bright some not so , some rich some poor yet the majority in the so called 'middle class' ,,,, and then we have the understanding,,,, somethin defines the troubles of one section of those friends graver than the other ,,,,, some 'law' defines that one of those needs to study harder, get a better percentile of scores to get into Graduate schools,,,,,, they are divided ,,,,,, thats the truth that the people percieve feel and protest for ,,,,,
i could see the blatant fact flashed on my face ,,,,, "study hard, face the competetion" ,,,, and then one more clause,,,"study harder than the boy or gal next to u , he/she is an SC, ST, OBC"..... it somehow enrages us as we all ride together, go to the movies, attend those pressure cooker coaching centers, hang out for chai ,,,,,,"Y?", "What makes them special?",,,, 'they' would get the seats while peer pressure would kill 'us' all .....'they' would ride on the pulsars and kinetics into the colleges of future glory while we brood at the thout of an uncertain and even bleak and dark future,,,,, we worked together, faced the same pressure, had the same resources, or rather the lack of them..... we went in the same crouded buses, had same hot tempers, yet some loose and others ride to glory,,,,, i was once told ..... "U need to get a 190/200 and u might just make it and yet my friend was told just manage the qualifying score and a few more, a meager 100/200 and you would become a doctor, an engineer or now as it may seem get into post graduate colleges,,,,,
the students protesting today are not holigans or truck loads of uneducated payed political emissaries,,,, these are the 5-10% cream of the India youth,,,,,, these are people that know that their futures are secured and multinationals and the best of establishments wait to gouble them up.... yet they protest......
as i take my stand with these protestors not bcoz the media personifies them as heroes but bcoz i have seen, lived and felt wat they feel now,,,,, bcoz it enrages me even now years later how we had to fight among thousands to get one admission to just begin our lives,,,, just BEGIN.....and now its all going to be doubled,,, everythin,,,, the pressure lbs increased by the double in an ever increasing population,,,another curse that divides us,,,,,, bcoz its never the underpriviledged villagers or small towners on the census that gain the benefit of reservations,,,, its the people in everyday middle class and the students in every city college,,,,, the villagers dont need reservations in colleges they need motivation to go to schools ,,,, to understand wat the world offers them,,,, they need the exposure of wat lies ahead,,,,, all the rest i dare say, is a political eyewash
SO I STAND TODAY "ANTI-RESERVATION",,,, a stand i hope would stop the rediculous partition of colleges around the country based on a concern that first need to be addressed not at the Graduate level but at the primary education level to meet its true ideological goal
As the youth in the country is divided over the issue,,,, OBC's rejoicing at an increase in opportunites were as the so call 'General' category students beseeching opposition in favour of meritocracy,,,, it infurriates and confuses me ,,,, infurriated by the bold decision of the Govt without realising that 40% of India today is the youth,,,,without considering the cons of an abrupt action that history has shown caused lifes and destruction in the early 90's... the word of those times was the Mandal commision,,, it confused me wen i heard the screams of my seniors on schoold stages,,, "VP singh Hai Hai, Mandal commision hai hai",,,, schools were shut and i had a vacation unexplained for a month,,, but now a decade later in all seems to make sense,,,, the feeling and the protests,,,,,, the anger at the audacity of the govt to try and impose a legislation of such immense public significance on a population made of 40% youth in a matter of days,,,,,
there wasnt a word about it ,,,, there wasnt a discussion in the media,,,, there was nothin and then suddenly.,,,,, BOOOM!!!! 50% of the seats in our best education institutions were out of our reach,,,,, few weeks before the parliament session the news comes out,,,, well i dont blame the protests then,,,, it is a nation outcry at the apathy of the politicians,,,,,
the international media is equally curiuos,,,, many do not seem to comprehend the protests in a economic power risng against odds,,, an economic power booming with the feeling of development, of upliftment of the less fortunate,,,, they seem to ask... "Y do the people protest against reservations aimed at upliftment of the less fortunate?",,,,well because nothin can be farther from the truth,,,,,
the truth as percieved by those who protest is i feel very simple,..... you go to a regular high school... u have classmates that do not have any caste or creed ,,, they just have names,,, regular students ,,, regular minds, some bright some not so , some rich some poor yet the majority in the so called 'middle class' ,,,, and then we have the understanding,,,, somethin defines the troubles of one section of those friends graver than the other ,,,,, some 'law' defines that one of those needs to study harder, get a better percentile of scores to get into Graduate schools,,,,,, they are divided ,,,,,, thats the truth that the people percieve feel and protest for ,,,,,
i could see the blatant fact flashed on my face ,,,,, "study hard, face the competetion" ,,,, and then one more clause,,,"study harder than the boy or gal next to u , he/she is an SC, ST, OBC"..... it somehow enrages us as we all ride together, go to the movies, attend those pressure cooker coaching centers, hang out for chai ,,,,,,"Y?", "What makes them special?",,,, 'they' would get the seats while peer pressure would kill 'us' all .....'they' would ride on the pulsars and kinetics into the colleges of future glory while we brood at the thout of an uncertain and even bleak and dark future,,,,, we worked together, faced the same pressure, had the same resources, or rather the lack of them..... we went in the same crouded buses, had same hot tempers, yet some loose and others ride to glory,,,,, i was once told ..... "U need to get a 190/200 and u might just make it and yet my friend was told just manage the qualifying score and a few more, a meager 100/200 and you would become a doctor, an engineer or now as it may seem get into post graduate colleges,,,,,
the students protesting today are not holigans or truck loads of uneducated payed political emissaries,,,, these are the 5-10% cream of the India youth,,,,,, these are people that know that their futures are secured and multinationals and the best of establishments wait to gouble them up.... yet they protest......
as i take my stand with these protestors not bcoz the media personifies them as heroes but bcoz i have seen, lived and felt wat they feel now,,,,, bcoz it enrages me even now years later how we had to fight among thousands to get one admission to just begin our lives,,,, just BEGIN.....and now its all going to be doubled,,, everythin,,,, the pressure lbs increased by the double in an ever increasing population,,,another curse that divides us,,,,,, bcoz its never the underpriviledged villagers or small towners on the census that gain the benefit of reservations,,,, its the people in everyday middle class and the students in every city college,,,,, the villagers dont need reservations in colleges they need motivation to go to schools ,,,, to understand wat the world offers them,,,, they need the exposure of wat lies ahead,,,,, all the rest i dare say, is a political eyewash
SO I STAND TODAY "ANTI-RESERVATION",,,, a stand i hope would stop the rediculous partition of colleges around the country based on a concern that first need to be addressed not at the Graduate level but at the primary education level to meet its true ideological goal
posted by Perennial Oxymoron at 1:57 PM
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nICE ONE !
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