This weeks ramblings on reservation again brought to front the obsession we have with caste and how much we let politics ruin our country. It pains to see how a couple of hooligans can take ambition of an entire nation down. Mr arjun singh who should be retired and living in peace still uses the last few years of his life to suck out anything good which is left in our nation and “we the people” sit and watch like helpless sheep being taken to the meat shop. I am a very optimistic person but sometime my own optimism fails me and I question myself “did god give me a punishment by giving birth to me in a time when my great nation is being looted by congressism?” I am in US and I feel proud when often I walk up to americans who are awed by the bright brains of indians. Infact recently I met a american who started eating turmeric thinking that this is what makes indians brighter then anyone else in the world. I look and wonder how many years have we left when world will laugh on our doctors and engineers who will be underqualified because someone bypassed merit to ensure that they get their degrees and politician get their votes.
How shameful that when the court says “keep creamy layer out” congress says “we will change definition of creamy layer“. I am totally in favor of giving helping hand to people who cannot do it themselves but does poverty come with caste? Is congress telling us that all brahmins in india are rich people because I can sit in front of arjun singh and show him the fact that this is blatant lie. Wouldn’t it make sense if we give free education till graduation, free books, free application forms and support in getting jobs to people who are poor and backward rather than snatching deserved merit from someone else and giving it to others based on their castes? And do we really expect that people who lost a seat in IIT or a place in IIM to a underqualified candidate will love this person? In fact it will only generate hatred and nothing else. I still remember the day when I got 72% marks in Delhi college of engineering exam but could not even get a seat while someone who could not even pass the exam got electronics. I cried that day, cried on why this should happen. I thank my parents for giving me the sense of right and wrong else I may have turned in to a person filled with rage and would have cursed or killed these people. But how long can you supress this hatred. I wish arjun singh and his bunch of congress jokers will live long enough to see that revolution. As I complete this article my optimism tells me “this country has risen back whenever people tried to finish it and it will” but will I live long enough to die in a classless india? I don’t know and can only wish for.
