NO to 'caste based' reservation
Being very lazy to write another piece on a subject about which I’d mailed all my contacts a couple of weeks earlier, I am posting the same here in response to Vivek’s call for a blog about caste based reservation.
Hello people… It’s dark days ahead for merit again. A throwback to the early nineties when we were students and protested against implementation of Mandal’s highly despicable reservation policies based on caste lines, we are witnessing the same dirty political machinations of casteism again today. I’ve nothing against reservation based on economic considerations, but caste based reservation has to go. I’ve signed this petition. I urge you to take a look at it and sign it IF you think it’s worth protesting.
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Atra and Pradz...
Ok, I agree that petitions themselves will not be effective per se as most politicians wouldn’t pay any attention to them, being focussed as they are on the more immediate concerns of creating / maintaining vote banks. I never said just by signing the petition we can sit back and relax; thinking the deed to be done.
That was a mere first step in trying to build up an awareness among my own contacts. There may be many ways of building awareness as well as ‘doing something’ about the whole issue, but constrained by a few very serious problems of my own, I used one way which I thought was effective in communicating my idea about this issue. I’d only one point to make, reservations based on caste is divisive and will be used by ruthless and insensitive politicians/individuals to create further divisions in an already fissured society [A short proof of this has been provided by bilbo in her comments on vivek’s blog]. I have nothing against reservations based on economic considerations. In fact I demand that reservations based on economic criteria be implemented at all levels of education.
CNN
Captain Nemo’s NO
without a second thought i must agree to the chucking of this whole chucking of the caste based reservaton system. We still live in the age of the Kings and Caste is still that pain in the neck that won’t go away.
I saw your petition in the mailbox and call me the lazy bum, i didn’t go to the site. As commoners, what does a petition do? I mean, say 4 million people sign in against this reservation, then waht? Will this be magically be converted into a bill which’ll stand the debate of the legislators in the lower assembly????? Or will it go to the President of India, who’ll sleep over this biting issue? I don’t know…
But would you and i like it stopped? We know the answer to that, but how? petitions, signatures…i really doubt the efficacy of such a system. Just wondering, why are the political parties and the media quite about it?
CN
CN, dude, I’d vote immediately in favor of what you say.
But do we have any any evidence that these petitions have any effect whatsoever.
I think they work negatively, by making people think they actually DID something for the cause, when in fact it doesnt have any effect. I would rather that the people did something real than sit back content that they something by signing a petition. I believe that this petition signing thingy is the american method of making people think they did something, and still allowing the system to go on doing that it wants to do.
What say?
So, I am not going to sign this petition and console myself by thinking that I did something. If I have not done anything, I must know I have not done anything.
THAT realization, may do something, CN, think about it…