Comments on: Reservations: Here’s a Solution

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:08:00 +0000

Seriously, this nonchalant take is the dumbest one on this issue. I’m not even going to refute it except to say that “supressed” and “underprivileged” go together in the Indian context. And yes, it matters if your grandfather is not able to provide for your father because of “supression” and in turn, your father was unable to provide for you. If it had been happening for a few generations before you, you would NOT be what your profile says you are. The last thing we need is expatriates retrograding society back into the times where latrine-cleaners trained their children to clean latrines, even if they had the talent to develop enterprise scale applications. Please…

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:08:00 +0000

By: Vikram

Vikram — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:03:00 +0000

Well you could just pay and get a scheduled cast certificate…. Not too hard to get done.

But yea the backward class system is ballocks, what can we do if you ancestors were suppressed ? How the hell does that make you underpriviliged ? Please….

By: Vikram

Vikram — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:03:00 +0000

Well you could just pay and get a scheduled cast certificate…. Not too hard to get done.

But yea the backward class system is ballocks, what can we do if you ancestors were suppressed ? How the hell does that make you underpriviliged ? Please….

By: Neil Kulkarni

Neil Kulkarni — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:21:00 +0000

the suggestion makes sense, but its practicality when it comes to implementation so as to negate the effects of the policy in place is in question, simply because the soulution is idealistic, but the world we live in never was and never would be.

By: Neil Kulkarni

Neil Kulkarni — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:21:00 +0000

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:23:00 +0000

Of course, social prejudice is made more acute because of reservations. So the solution would be to remove both. While reservations can be removed with a stroke of a pen, what about prejudice?

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:23:00 +0000

Of course, social prejudice is made more acute because of reservations. So the solution would be to remove both. While reservations can be removed with a stroke of a pen, what about prejudice?

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:14:00 +0000

I guess you already know my stand. I won’t put it down here, because I’m saving it for later.

You have two pertinent flaws in your solution. The first is, of course, you expect us all to be angels reborn and reject reservation. Thats Utopian. The second is you are asking us to come on a level playing field when it is, in fact, not level. I’m not convinced that its level. Of course, the plain truth is 99% of the caste people will be knocked off by an impartial judge – the merit criteria. So far, so good. What about the rest? What about the system in situ? If I’m not wrong, outside of official gazettes and such, India has always had a bias towards the higher castes. Or maybe one word is enough – prejudice. Social prejudice. Will the successful 1% be protected from the social prejudice and guaranteed an impartial judgement for the rest of their careers? That was a rhetorical question, BTW. I already know the answer.

Rest assured, if I get a kid, I’m going to sit him/her down and say “Honey, reservation is bad for your soul. Ask your father. So you better slave off and get into that college on your own credentials and when you get to where you can kick serious butt, show them what you got”.

By: Rohit Bhute

Rohit Bhute — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:14:00 +0000

I guess you already know my stand. I won’t put it down here, because I’m saving it for later.