the reservation in our psychee
as i was rambling thru a blog on the recent OBC reservation move http://bsubra.blogspot.com/2006/04/students-slam-obc-reservation-proposal.html#comments
and reading the forty-seven odd comments on this blog, a strange feeling crept in me. is it not that the SC/ST/OBC populations make up more than 70% of India's staggering 1030 million? then how come there is not a single post that defends the 'new' reservation move? is it because except for the vote-bank politicians, every-one, including the ones for whom the reservation is meant for, feel that reservation is bad, it's bad for India's growth, economy, everything? or is it because blogging is a thing that doesn't really fit into the daily-life of these people?
it's merit versus quota, isn't it dude? but who will define merit? even before you come to that debate, you implicitly assume that the person from SC/ST/OBC is inefficient, unworthy, good for nothing fellow. is merit measured thru academic records solely? then none other than the top 10 of each class in a school should be in leading role in different sectors. then merit must be measured thru enterprise. do you really have evidence that these people are less toiling, or less enterprising. i would really be indebted to any of you furnishing me any scientific study regarding that.no, no..you are getting all wrong. it's the merit list of the entrance exams that we are talking about. well, everyone knows that what success in today's entrance exams need is not really 'merit', but a combination of intelligence, proper guidance and practice, with the last two components dominating. when these people are provided quota entrance to institutes of higher education it's the compensation for the latter two that they are being given. and that too perhaps to right the millenia old historical wrongs perpetrated by uppercastes in our country. Or are you saying that it's the intelligence component that they are missing. wait, doesn't that sound like you have decided already, that they constitute a useless worthless mountain sitting of top of India's progress?
Ask a question to yourself. whose progress is at stake? >70%'s or <30%'s?>
teach them, coach them, make them eligible to face the competition, that should be the buzzword, right? unfortunately, these egalitarian views present themselves only when the reservation issue comes alive; none seems to be interested in these otherwise. thus the honesty in intentions of letting these people into the safely-guarded 'temples' of learning always remains dubious. and in a country like india where corruption is eating up the system from all possible sides, how do expect that it is really possible do all these for the people who have been alienated from the stream of learning for thousands of years?
but the times they are a changin'....the political power in the country slowly seems to be shifting away from the brahmins and the forward castes. that's why you will find that none of the mass based political parties will be against the new legislation, forget about the mandal type agitation. the corporate world,forward castes directly affected by these policies will no doubt resent ( and quite naturally!!) and the corporatized news media will go at lengths to fuel their anger and disgust.
the battle lines are drawn. the war is truely due.
and reading the forty-seven odd comments on this blog, a strange feeling crept in me. is it not that the SC/ST/OBC populations make up more than 70% of India's staggering 1030 million? then how come there is not a single post that defends the 'new' reservation move? is it because except for the vote-bank politicians, every-one, including the ones for whom the reservation is meant for, feel that reservation is bad, it's bad for India's growth, economy, everything? or is it because blogging is a thing that doesn't really fit into the daily-life of these people?
it's merit versus quota, isn't it dude? but who will define merit? even before you come to that debate, you implicitly assume that the person from SC/ST/OBC is inefficient, unworthy, good for nothing fellow. is merit measured thru academic records solely? then none other than the top 10 of each class in a school should be in leading role in different sectors. then merit must be measured thru enterprise. do you really have evidence that these people are less toiling, or less enterprising. i would really be indebted to any of you furnishing me any scientific study regarding that.no, no..you are getting all wrong. it's the merit list of the entrance exams that we are talking about. well, everyone knows that what success in today's entrance exams need is not really 'merit', but a combination of intelligence, proper guidance and practice, with the last two components dominating. when these people are provided quota entrance to institutes of higher education it's the compensation for the latter two that they are being given. and that too perhaps to right the millenia old historical wrongs perpetrated by uppercastes in our country. Or are you saying that it's the intelligence component that they are missing. wait, doesn't that sound like you have decided already, that they constitute a useless worthless mountain sitting of top of India's progress?
Ask a question to yourself. whose progress is at stake? >70%'s or <30%'s?>
teach them, coach them, make them eligible to face the competition, that should be the buzzword, right? unfortunately, these egalitarian views present themselves only when the reservation issue comes alive; none seems to be interested in these otherwise. thus the honesty in intentions of letting these people into the safely-guarded 'temples' of learning always remains dubious. and in a country like india where corruption is eating up the system from all possible sides, how do expect that it is really possible do all these for the people who have been alienated from the stream of learning for thousands of years?
but the times they are a changin'....the political power in the country slowly seems to be shifting away from the brahmins and the forward castes. that's why you will find that none of the mass based political parties will be against the new legislation, forget about the mandal type agitation. the corporate world,forward castes directly affected by these policies will no doubt resent ( and quite naturally!!) and the corporatized news media will go at lengths to fuel their anger and disgust.
the battle lines are drawn. the war is truely due.
posted by suvarup at 10:07 PM
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