Reservation Blues !!

So its back again,this time for OBCs and country is divided again into pro-anti-reservation stand. That's true Dalits have been oppressed to inhuman conditions for ages in this country and even the greatest of greatest Gandhi and his movements failed to bring them up in the society. And they are continued to be humiliated or neglected in different parts of the country And the recent addition are the incidences in Harayana which exposed the mentality of upper cast Hindus in rather suburb places. And also I remember visiting a village in Kerala which was looking quit prosperous till I reached the other part of the village, where 40 Dalits families were living, separated from rest of the village. They were given some 40 houses of one room each, as compared to nice big houses in other part of the village. But alas! Communication gap could not let me talk to them.
So reservation has been proposed as the easiest solution to raise the socio-economic condition of such classes. But the big question is, does it really reach the class which is really suffering? Majority of the population which is suffering belongs the lower class (economically), poor, very poor. My experience from college is that mostly middle or upper classes are getting benefited from reservation politics, who to a greater extent doesn't really deserve that much. So what's the solution ?
As suggested in almost every anti-reservation articles that there is a need to improve primary education or I would rather say fractured primary education. I will take you to Uttar Pradesh, where cast politics is rather complex, and our primary education is a big failure.
Every state has CBSE, ICSE and State board(UP board in UP). ICSE and CBSE are confined till private schools, so obviously are not in the reach of lower class people, whereas UP Board run by state government are highly subsidized and most of the poor class study there. Now this creates the first big difference, where a student in ICSE or CBSE can easily manage 80-85% average, for student of UP Board to score even 70% is a tough task. So it becomes rather tough for the students of UP board to get into good graduation colleges where admition are based mostly upon marks obtained in 12th std. First things that needs to be done is to implement same form of primary education all over the country. So that every student from all classes stands equal chances.
Now state colleges are run in rather bad conditions, professors doesn't come, no one cares for attendance, I my self dint attend my classes continuously for 4,5 months and no one was bothered about it. You are forced to take tuition from professors other wise it is a tough task to clear exams (other thn board exams). So only government will can change this condition of colleges.
And the third biggest problem in our education system is, it is based on tough examination system which assess the ability of students. In UP Board on an average 40% students are not able to clear high school exams and around 30% get stuck in 12th Std. Out of this 30% a huge population comprises of students whose socio-economical condition doesn't really allow them to concentrate. Imagine a stundent swiftly clearing all exams and is in some graduation college where he is meeting a larger part of community and more matured pple and other student who is stuck in high school and keep being the part of that immature, teenage group. To me education is important but awareness is the key. And also if a student is stuck in high school or 12th std how is she/he going to get the benefit of reservation. With such socio-economic condition it is a high probability that she/he may just give up and start earning for the family. The biggest change that we need to implement on education system is to remove this marks based system and make sure that not a single student is goin to be stuck in any class. I believe implementing such measures in our primary education system can greatly reduce the need of reservation on cast based.

Caution: Faith/Religion/God is injurious to the health of society

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity."
John Lennon

Shall I say /Faith/Religion/God has evolved as the biggest enemy to humanity. From the 10th century crusades (even earlier) to the middle east crises, from Shakesper's Shylock to Germany's Hitler, from Congo to Bosnia to Rwanda to Darfur, from Kashmir to Vadodra, from John Lennon to Danish news paper millions and billions of pple have been slauthered to death, molested, insulted or isolated on the name of blind faith, religion or god.

Jews have problem with Palestine, Arabs have problem with Jews, different ethnic groups in Africa has problem with each other, Hindus have problem with Muslims, Dravidian doesnt like Aryans, Europeans have problem with African Arabs, Americans doesnt like black afro-Americans, sunni's have problem with shia's.
Looking into this century itself ...
Germany, Hitler had problem with Jews, parts of the Europe were favoring him and some 30 lacs jews were slauthered to death in a span of 13 months and then displaced to Middle east, which has seen thousands of pple dead since then in an arab-jew-Palestine conflict. And millions of Germans followed Hitler blindly. In Africa situation is even worst, in recent Darfur conflict already estimated 3 lacs pple have been killed so far in a conflict between arabs and non-arabs. In current Congo war estimated 3.8 million pple died from 1998 to 2004 and in Rwanda almost 8 lac slaughter in a span of 100 days in a conflict that involved hutus and tutsi community. In Bosnia Croatia conflict on the name of "ethnic cleansing" almost 2.5 lacs pple died from 1992 to 1995 etc, etc ...the more you dig in the more dirt you find.

In a recent conflict a Danish cartoonist paints some caricature and there was hue and cry all over Muslim nations. Many of the pple haven't even seen the cartoon or cartoonist. A Muslim leader from India announces a ransom of 50 crore to kill the cartoonist and thousands of pple starts supporting him. A few 10 pple died in the whole issue, where pple were just following some blind faith.The number of pple who are left homeless, women raped, children dies of startvation and pple who are still suffering is humongous.


Terrorist attacks in Madrid, London, USA, regular attacks in Egypt, Jordan, frequent bomb blast in India is the result of the same blind faith on the name of the God.

In one his lecture Vivekanand said "India is a poor, weak and insecure country so it can never be separated from God or Religion". God or religion is the manifestation of weak pple, community, who are scared, ashamed of their own acts and then search for god to cleanse themself.I remeber in my college days pple would never go to temple but as soon as some exam, interview and some pressures situation they had to face they would run to temple. It is this fear which has in it the foundation of the concept God.
Beware: Some fanatic, fearful follower of the God might be lurking somewhere around you !!

The Castology ....

Dravidian, Aryan,
Shudra, Vaishya, Kshatriya, Birahmin,
Marwari, Maheshawri, Kayasth, Jain, Reddy,
Meena, Yadav, Telgi, Khandelwal, Aggarwal, Goal, Shriwastav, Maheshwari, Tiwari, Sharma etc, etc, etc

So this is how we are developing in India with time. For more elaborated picture please refer to any of the matrimonial pages in Indian news papers. And we continue to develop and keep adding new branches. What could be the main the reason for such an achievement. I will try to point out some here.

1. Our system of arrange marriages (which is mostly always cast based).
2. Submissive youth, melodramatic parents, interfering society, utilitarian
3. Cast base politics
4. Our education system and reservation game


I have always believe marriages among different communities can reduce the differences.
But our arrange marriage system has evolved as a biggest curse to society. Well an essay can written on the evils of arrange marriages but I will restrict myself to its effect on cast equation. We have rather stiff rules in marriage system and we like to look for person who belongs to the same cast only. Same cast doesnt mean Vaishya go for Vaishya but Khandelwal will look for Khandelwal not even Aggarwal/Jain/something else. Recently I met an old lady she says we have no problem where every you guys marry but "I doesnt want anyone from Muslims, Kayasth, Yadav et all, etc etc ..". Arrange marriage is a system where family and society (aggarwal, shamra, tiwari ...)decides about the future. And the big men of our so called society give their best to find out a same cast bride/groom.

A "birahmin" girl fall in love with a "baniya" guy. They were all set to marry. Family of guy had no problem or rather I would say had no choice but to say yes. The family of girl became overtly melodramatic, "beta tum hamein samajh main badnam karogi". Software engineer brother of the girl "if I was doing this thn it was ok, but since girls are the mirror of the family in society you shouldnt be doing all this".And then followed all kind of melodrama, to the extent of suicidal threats. And our much submissive youth surrendered, because we cant hurt our parents by going against them, by raising voice against them even if they are wrong. So a year long love affair met a tame end. And this happens in every second home, you talk about love marriage and the very first question comes up "does your parents knows" or "are they ready for the marriage" "is intercast ok with them"? A Muslims doesnt flirt around with hindu or vics versa, because they are scared of parents and society. North doesnt want to go with South, so called cultural differences.

Politics its redundant nothing to talk about, every one knows. Politics doesnt care of social structure, all they want is vote. Its just a disappointing fact that political parties like BJP after 1992 babri masjit campaign rose to power and Modi won in Gujarat after 2002 communal violence. BJP is worried about hindu, most of the regional parties about minorities around them and best exampel is UP.

Our primary education system is another disappoint, a failure I would say. We want a person to clear each and every exam and that is our criterion of personality growth. And in UP board that sees almost 40-50 % students stuck in std 10th and around 30% in std 12th. A huge population belongs to minority and mostly from poor class. Most of the pple then doesnt get chance to step in college for higher degree and thats where our reservation comes. Which effects mostly financially good SCs/STs, and they take all the benefits even if they dont deserve. And then they become problematic to many eyes of upper cast pple and are bieng cursed on their back, well this what I have observed and heard pple saying at universities "salla SC/ST hai, hona hi tha", the gap widens in subconsciously.

Well I believe in India marriages plays a key role. Most of Indian fall in the trap of that. So cant we just go ahead and tell our parents ok I doesnt want to marry a girl in my cast.

Well government should also campaign for that my suggestion would be to give prize money to the couple who doing intercast/community/religion marriage.

Like hindu-muslim couple should be given say 10 lacs prize money and some kind of life long social security. Similarly for an upper cast lower cast couple. And some prize money for intercast marriages.

Like Dharamvir Bharati very nicely pointed out in his book "Suraj Ka Satwan Ghoda", that how our society revolves around marriages and how it can effect our social structure.

Tanuj