The recent ruling on reservation issue has drawn a lot of flak from the student community. People have gone for blackout night protest (check www.youth4equality.org) to candle light walks and what not? All inspired by movie Rang De basanti i guess. Some of my friends who in practical life I know are never capable of even coming inches close to bravery write extremely motivating mails. My principle is simple, practice what you preach !! If you want people to come to a protest march or something, be the first to reach there and motivate by meeting people FACE-TO-FACE and make this cause as your cause ... Anyway, avuthu-pottu today is not directed at such people as there is no point in wasting key-strokes on this hypocrisy issue ....
Today avuthu-pottu is directed at DEMOCRACY itself .... It is very difficult to bend a DEMOCRACTIC government. You can easily twist a DICTATORIAL regime. It is in fact more flexible than a Democractic regime.. You just need to flex a single person and your policies fall in place... Now i received a lot of mails from people stripping ARJUN SINGH and making him responsible for this... No ARJUN SINGH has on date the backing of all VOTE-DRIVEN POLITICIANS including the support of the Opposition(Don't let the saffron party of the hook next time) .
Whenever a democractic government decides to do something, IT DOES ... COME WHAT MAY.. Because a democractic government is people driven and not person-driven... I request all students to look at reality and see that 70% of India comes from Backward castes. These castes form the big VOTE BANK and these are the category of people who REALLY VOTE UNLIKE US... They brave the heat,rain,cold to vote for their choice of candidate something which we really don't do often... Anyway, it is a different thing that these people are not realizing that reservation is not really helping them ... If they realized this, they really woudn't be backward and needy as on date.... But who cares ???
Thus, you do whatever protest march or something, a democractic government is very strong.... Be it strikes during INDIRA-GANDHI TIME, JAYA-LALITHA TIME or anything else... Sorry to say!!! I LAUD YOUR TIRELESS EFFORT IN this regard .... but sadly it is a case of MAJORITY KILLING THE MINORITY.... which is the problem of a democractic government ......... people talk about IIT'ans floating a party for people's governance ... Please see that our Prime Minister is more Intellectual and wise than most IIT'ans but he too is unable to do anything in this regard ...... Corporates like NARAYANAMURTHY, RATAN TATA are not even giving a statement in the press on this....
THE POLICY IS LIKE A DRAUPADI BEING UNDRESSED IN PUBLIC BUT UNFORTUNATELY ALL WISE MEN ARE SEEING THIS SCENE MUTELY LEAVING OTHERS TO DIE IN GRACE..... The second biggest problem is THERE IS NO LORD KRISHNA HERE TO RESCUE ALL OF US...
Thus, all those who are praising and lauding democracy to the last mile ..... PLEASE THINK Again ................
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why bring a policy without thinking abt the last mile..
i also think reservations might be needed. but all options need to be worked out before announcing a major policy decision.
if u had seen arjun singh interveiwed by karan thapar on cnbc, he had nothing to say..to him nothing was concrete. except for 27% reservations..
ahem...good one...
but u see, i would still go for democracy...its lik life u know...life sucks but somehow it goes on....democracy suks...yet its the best thing that can happen to a country.
i wouldnt want a dictator...never...but the point is well-made...the government will implement the whole thing...
i say...let them do whatever they want to do...but we musn't stop trying....may be the whole system will fail...but lets hve shoulders strong enough...for them to fall back on us...we will lift them again...
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