I started to write this on august 14, 2007 (in a word doc). the eve of india's independence....and it sees the light of day only today........ testimony that i am really lazy!
It's been quite a few years since I've got introduced to blogging. But I've never really blogged though i used to read a lot and post comments...
I always wanted to express and pen down my thoughts in a book and not a blog. Times have changed so have I.
To the point, though as a nation we tom tom about our achievements... frankly speaking I feel we've gone no where. The very legacy of the British rule stills holds good - Divide and rule. It's been 60 yrs more since ambedkar drafted the constitution, but we loom over the very same British raj .... "divide and rule". The only diff being that our blissfully happy politicians have taken us for a ride with reservation. It was ambedkars dream to bring equality through reservation, but I think it has failed to deliver.
Now we've advanced to religion based reservation... I mean how much more can you fragment the society. The blacks were slaves in the states, they never demanded reservation! the states doesn't have it.... aren't they a flourishing economy?
What I fail to understand is the how we manage to divide in the name of equality!
Also, some policy makers decide that the capability of certain people is only so much. To explain if you tell a guy passing is enough to get a seat, that's all he/she aims for, most often. Isn't that denial of knowledge/education? who decides the capabilities of whom? some moron decides you can score only this much since you belong to x caste. I've seen students doing just that by studying enough to just scrape through. Isn't that denial of their capabilities, isn't it limiting their capacity? People argue saying that your parents are educated whereas a guys a parents who have been stitching shoes all their lives cannot offer the knowledge that yours may...accepted in one way, they cannot teach at home.... but isn't teaching supposed to happen at school? does that mean our education system is flawed?
The worst arguement in this context that I've come across is where a person said your forefathers denied us, so we deny you... you pay back the loans they left on this society as you reaped the benefits earlier...what an utterly thoughtless, baseless idea? is this some tit for tat..
I love this country, a country that has accepted religions, cultures, langauages.... by nature India from ages has been very tolerant, be it the mughal invasion, european or any other, we've accepted them as leaders too. Is this a flaw of Hinduism? not it isn't, in fact this is what I like most. That we accept others... and will continue to do so...
