Don't

'..He said as soon as they will get a copy of the bill, the medicos will consult lawyers and move the Supreme Court against the proposed legislation.' Read more about what the agitating medicos plan to do now that the Bill has been introduced in parliament.

Move the courts? Nothing new. It has been a favorite tool with those seeking 'equality' since independence. Perhaps no other class of legislation have been challenged as often and as vigorously as policies advocating reservations..One of the many reasons why a majority of the States in India and the Centre itself did not even attempt to correct the criminally skewed representation in jobs and higher education until very recently. But the most important reason why legislation was so rarely sought to be introduced and so frequently sought to be challenged was very simple : most of the governments were(/are) upper caste led and most of the 'rights' -conscious challengers were(/are) upper caste too. That doesn't add up, in your view..? Let me put it more bluntly - both the 'stallers' in government and the 'challengers' from civil society were both motivated by blind prejudice. Until now.

So blinded were they by prejudice that they'd overlook all the facts, evidence..data piling up before their own eyes (as powers that be in government)...and brush away all the proof of discrimination, exclusion..and inequality they'd witness every day (as constituents of civil society). And stall..and challenge. Until now.

And it seems like, even now.

I'd like to tell the challengers : Don't. Does that sound aggressive..like a warning? (If it's interpreted as one, it'd be a rarity in this blog's history - usually, I've been at the receiving end of dire threats about what would happen to the OBCs if this legislation went through). I'm only trying to tell the savarnas that the OBCs aren't the enemy- their own prejudices are...

I'm only trying to look into the future and see where..all this might lead upto.

Looking for a Pulitzer?

Barkha Dutt promotes a movie, made in the U.S., for Indian-Americans living in the U.S., on NDTV. The characters, according to one reviewer, might have Indian-sounding names and they might look Indian..but the movie isn't about Indians. Nor about India. So why is it being shown in Indian homes, you ask? That's okay, I guess, most of the Indian television media sounds like it's just come visiting anyway (recall how Barkha feels that caste isn't so very important in India)...covering the daily disaster that's India - and 'analysing' with as much knowledge as any short duration visitor can gather. And would leave as soon as the Pulitzers are announced ..to collect them.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who bruits around the 'knowledge' that OBCs are 'oppressors' without offering any 'substantive proof', tells CNN-IBN that there is no 'substantive proof' that Pakistan is involved in 'terrorist activities' in India. Another 'knowledgeable visitor' ? Is he lobbying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department?

Good Wishes !

Found this at one of the numerous 'non-violent, non-political' websites dedicated to opposing reservations -

'...have a look at mumbai on dec 6th when the hordes of backwards visit on the pretext of ambedkar jayanti ..they travel ticketless, defecate in public.. grope and tease women flock and make a mess out of the city..
its these scum of society that will become doctors and engineers? for them might is right and vandalsing is their birthright ....
but they do one good thing...have sex with the whores of kamathipura which hopefully shud kill them of aids.. ..'

- an anonymous commenter.

Who paid for your free lunches?

The Prime Minister is discussing the reservations issue with a group of ministers.. mulling over the Moily report, the news channels tell you. All the channels reporting on the issue 'inform' you reservations in central educational institutions are going to cost the government 17,000 crores. No, it's not the expansion envisaged in these institutions to accommodate upper caste students who might lose seats that requires this 'investment' -it's those damned OBCs...who are going to cost the country this colossal 'expenditure'.

If the institutions had been expanded, without making any provision for new reservations, I'm sure the media would have found a lot of 'merit' in that .. colossal 'drain' on resources.