Tuesday, April 18, 2006

of maddening non maladies

first things first. therefore, clarifications. i did not write the poem in the previous post, as dave rightly pointed out, it is a song by abba. thanks for all the compliments, but i am acutely incapable of composing any poem, sad or otherwise.
hell, i am even almost incapable of feeling sad, so sad that you have to express your pain. i don't even hurt much, apart from at times when hurting is fashionable and makes great companion on lonely evenings.
have been reading politically correct bed time stories, but will not quoye any for fear that they will be attributed to me once again. (not that i would greatly mind).
let us talk about class then (that class which i attend because i have a cruch on the instructor, and suspect that she knows as much). one ma first year girl had to make a presenation on something, and since the course was entitled "identity and represntation", she decided to talk about the seven laws of spirituality, from zen to uri gellar...and said that she belives in them becasue all of them have a strong scientifc basis.
she also said that she is against reseravtion on the basis of caste or gender because even though she comes from a backward caste, she has never afced discirmination, and though reservation might be necessary in a pre-post graduate level, at the pg, it is highly unecessary.
it seems funny that this argument came the day after ambedkar's (the father of the indian const. and thought of as the greatest dalit national leader ever) birthday celebrations at the campus. have been hearing anti-reservation arguments for so long that now they cease to anger me, i just laugh and forget about it.
that is not the way i know, and one has to talk about reservation to the unwilling audience, but what i can not figure out that if i, for whom caste did not exist before i came here, can understand the arguments, they why can't people who have been racially, economically and culutrally deprived?
enough for today.
did this make sense though?

15 comments:

  1. i don't know anything about Indian politics so, i'm trying to piece together what you are talking about. One thing i don't understand is the meaning of reservation & anti-reservation?

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  2. Anonymous11:58 PM

    where do they teach all these...in...er....kolkata?

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  3. Anonymous12:02 AM

    oh! and....is that u in the user pic-box...wow....if it is u...then i shud admit ur name resembles ur user-pic xD

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  4. was rekha pissed with her tho?

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  5. nice thots...reservation at the pg level is just plain dumb thinking. i think the govt. does everything but listen to the ppl...i cud not get decent dinner today b'coz the eating joints outside were closed in protest for the vat. i think we need a codename V.

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  6. or a codename GhB for that matter :P

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  7. the unfortunate aspect is that reservation hardly even reaches the deserving people and then there are people who don't need it but still use reservation as their defence.

    eg: an army officer's daughter (my ex-neighbour) did not pass her written exam of NIFT but nevertheless got a seat in NIFT because she belonged to one of kerala's christian tribes. her parents were in no way poor to pay for the seat but they had to find the easier way. they did.

    somewhere in India, there is a young person who will end up as a local tailor instead of a fashion designer...

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  8. One of the reasons for reservation that my fellow Red Dadas fed me during my Jadavpur years was : "Caste based reservation will create an upper class within the backwards and thus sharpen the class-struggle in India".The biggest loosers in caste based reservations have always been the poorer sections of the SC/ST/OBCs.

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  9. help! explain to me this reservation idea????

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  10. That was more then a few words nemo. I think i get the idea though. reservation is like equal representation. it sounds like some of our laws concerning minorities

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  11. Anonymous12:20 PM

    yup! damn right,l>t.

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