Rang De Basanti - II (This Time For Real)

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2006-05-26T00:23:00.000-07:00

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Fifteen years ago near financial bankruptcy compelled the Indian State to loosen License Raj in the economic field. Strangely, as the world transitions into a knowledge economy in which learning and training will have the highest value, the Indian State has come back with vengeance to expand License Raj in the field of education.
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There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the quota system as long as it is applied judiciously and at the right levels. It cannot become a blanket solution for all time to come.
It is absolutely imperative that we right wrongs done to a vast section of our society. The question is whether keeping them frozen in those labels forever is the right approach. I do not think so.
What we need is to create opportunities for everyone of equal merit to have proper access. On this subject there are many views and many sentiments. At times people look at this in terms of black and white while there are many shades of gray.
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This is why Bijli-Sadak-Paani (BSP) and issues like law and order are taking centre-stage in areas where once Mandir and Mandal ruled the roost.The politics of competitive reservations is useful only until the policy is implemented. Once reservations are implemented, they stop yielding any dividend to their advocates. Remember the Hindi saying; 'Bund mutthi lakh ki, khul gayi to khaak ki' (the closed fist is worth a lakh, but once it is open it is worth nothing).
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'In West Bengal… and Kerala the Left-led land reform movements have not only reinforced female seclusion and dowry among upper castes, but extended them to scheduled castes as well. That has led to land alienation and eroded land reform. Dalits are known to muster resources for payment of dowry by selling off land they won through reform.'
The article quotes research by Praveena Kodoth in Economic and Political Weekly. (June 18-24, 2005) which, it says, 'reveals that land reform movements in Bengal and Kerala have failed to address the gendered modes of power and social relations. It shows how participation of women in rural (farm) work across social groups in Bengal and Kerala has, in the long term, declined due to land reform.'
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Are Brahmins the Dalits of today?

2006-05-26T00:13:00.000-07:00

At a time when the Congress government wants to raise the quota for Other Backward Classes to 49.5 per cent in private and public sectors, nobody talks about the plight of the upper castes. The public image of the Brahmins, for instance, is that of an affluent, pampered class. But is it so today?
There are 50 Sulabh Shauchalayas (public toilets) in Delhi; all of them are cleaned and looked after by Brahmins (this very welcome public institution was started by a Brahmin). A far cry from the elitist image that Brahmins have!
There are five to six Brahmins manning each Shauchalaya. They came to Delhi eight to ten years back looking for a source of income, as they were a minority in most of their villages, where Dalits are in majority (60 per cent to 65 per cent). In most villages in UP and Bihar, Dalits have a union which helps them secure jobs in villages.
Did you know that you also stumble upon a number of Brahmins working as coolies at Delhi's railway stations? One of them, Kripa Shankar Sharma, says while his daughter is doing her Bachelors in Science he is not sure if she will secure a job.
"Dalits often have five to six kids, but they are confident of placing them easily and well," he says. As a result, the Dalit population is increasing in villages. He adds: "Dalits are provided with housing, even their pigs have spaces; whereas there is no provision for gaushalas (cowsheds) for the cows of the Brahmins."
This reverse discrimination is also found in bureaucracy and politics. Most of the intellectual Brahmin Tamil class has emigrated outside Tamil Nadu. Only 5 seats out of 600 in the combined UP and Bihar assembly are held by Brahmins -- the rest are in the hands of the Yadavs.
400,000 Brahmins of the Kashmir valley, the once respected Kashmiri Pandits, now live as refugees in their own country, sometimes in refugee camps in Jammu and Delhi in appalling conditions. But who gives a damn about them? Their vote bank is negligible.
And this is not limited to the North alone. 75 per cent of domestic help and cooks in Andhra Pradesh are Brahmins. A study of the Brahmin community in a district in Andhra Pradesh (Brahmins of India by J Radhakrishna, published by Chugh Publications) reveals that today all purohits live below the poverty line.
Eighty per cent of those surveyed stated that their poverty and traditional style of dress and hair (tuft) had made them the butt of ridicule. Financial constraints coupled with the existing system of reservations for the 'backward classes' prevented them from providing secular education to their children.
According to the Andhra Pradesh study, the largest percentage of Brahmins today are employed as domestic servants. The unemployment rate among them is as high as 75 per cent. Seventy percent of Brahmins are still relying on their hereditary vocation. There are hundreds of families that are surviving on just Rs 500 per month as priests in various temples (Department of Endowments statistics).
Priests are under tremendous difficulty today, sometimes even forced to beg for alms for survival. There are innumerable instances in which Brahmin priests who spent a lifetime studying Vedas are being ridiculed and disrespected.
At Tamil Nadu's Ranganathaswamy Temple, a priest's monthly salary is Rs 300 (Census Department studies) and a daily allowance of one measure of rice. The government staff at the same temple receive Rs 2,500 plus per month. But these facts have not modified the priests' reputation as 'haves' and as 'exploiters.' The destitution of Hindu priests has moved none, not even the parties known for Hindu sympathy.
The tragedy of modern India is that the combined votes of Dalits/OBC and Muslims are enough for any government to be elected. The Congress quickly cashed in on it after Independence, but probably no other government than Sonia Gandhi's has gone so far in shamelessly dividing Indian society for garnering votes.

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Raise your voice to PM....

2006-05-25T23:30:00.000-07:00

Please, raise your opinion to Prime Minsiter Of India & President Of India:

http://presidentofindia.nic.in/welcome.html
http://pmindia.nic.in/write.htm

Justice to one with unjustice to other ??

2006-05-24T08:45:00.000-07:00

In Tamil Nadu, the 69 per cent (30% BCs, 20% MBCs, 18% SCs, 1% STs) quota was arrived at without any proper study of caste figures. This distribution may bear little resemblance to ground realities. Says P. Radhakrishnan, professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies: "It was an arbitrary political decision with no sociological basis." As a result, SCs, BCs and MBCs have begun to outperform the so-called forward communities, cornering a majority of the open competition (OC) seats. In the 2005 medical entrance, out of a total of 1,445 seats in 12 medical colleges, 430 seats were available in open competition. As many as 321 BC, 57 MBC and 14 SC students made it in the OC list. Only 38 from 'forward' communities qualified. "This shows the upholders of merit are talking rubbish," says G.R. Ravindranath of Doctors Association for Social Equality.

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A Picture is worth a million words...

2006-05-24T08:03:00.000-07:00

Famous People On Reservation...

2006-05-24T07:29:00.000-07:00

Pandit Jawhar Lal Nehru On Reservation
(Courtesy - Youth4Equality.org)

Sam Pitroda - National Knowledge Commision

I’m from lower caste, I'm not for quotas: Pitroda

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

resign from Knowledge Commission as your govt abets a politics of illusion

What We Can Do ???

2006-05-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

Here are some of my suggestions :

Support The Movement.
Spread The Word.
STOP!! DONATING & Supporting political parties supporting reservations.

Support Anti-Reservation

2006-05-24T03:52:00.000-07:00

Manmohan Singh to Bush : We're sending Indians to moon next year!
Bush : Wow !! How many ??
Singh: Total 100 !!
25 OBC, 20 SC, 15 ST, 5 Handicapped, 5 Sports personnals n 2 Kashmiri migrants, 8 politicians, 18 General and if possible 2 Astronaouts !! - Source Chain-Message

SUPPORT ANTI-RESERVATION, SAVE COUNTRY FROM “DIVIDE & RULE POLITICS”, THINK ABOVE YOUR BENEFIT’S FOR INDIA’S FUTURE, STOP CHEAP POLITICS…
RESERVATION IS FINE FOR NEEDY, DO REAL NEEDY WANT RESERVATION OR FOOD, WATER & SHELTER ? WHY DON'T GOVT. PROVIDE RESERVATION ON ECONOMIC BASIS ?
DO OUR MINISTER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SITUATION OF OBC's !!
NO, READ ARJUN SINGH's INTERVIEW HERE - IBNLive.com

Raise you voice at:

http://indian-reservation.blogspot.com/ http://www.savebrandindia.org/advancedguestbook/index.php http://www.youth4equality.org/
http://www.petitiononline.com/No_Quota/petition.html

Forward This Letter to all your contacts, It's NOW OR NEVER, Let me reiterate It is not against RESERVATION , It is agianst Castism & DIVIDE & RULE politics, Untill when we will let these cheap politicians let us manipulate us on the name of religion, temple & caste ???

This is Rang De Basanti – II (For Real)

Welcome!

2006-05-22T23:38:00.000-07:00

Its the perfect time to start another revolution in India, The first one was to throw away British Occupiers, And this one NOW is to clean our political system from CHEAP politicians like "Mr. Arjun Singh". I will be doing my BEST through this blog, to get you all updated on latest on Anti-Reservation from cyberspace.

I need your help, Do send your friends to this blog, so the word can spread. Youth Has Power To Stop This Injustice.