Many persons have referred to our constitution. Most of them I understand have referred to is with a lot of reverence. They think that a few minor changes to it will make a lot of difference to the indian lot.
To all readers I convey that our constitution is not a great piece of work. It has loopholes in it, it is inconsistent in that it has contradictions within its philosophy, it has not defined issues and requirements crisply, it is all grey with no clear black and white. It is a voluminous work which has not served us well for 50 years. The USA constitution about 5% of the size of our's has created a mighty modern culture and nation. Ofcourse the people who made it and those who worked under it need to be praised.
Let us pray we will get better things in time to come!?!
Author is right about the need for treating all the people equal under law. I don't think there needs to be correction of law so that uniform law is held for every citizen. Even with the available law there is no enforcement. We all are moving into a lawless, barbaric society. First let everyone respect the law and then let us debate on how to correct the flaws in the laws to make it common for all.
Coming to reservation, people are spoiled to the core and no government can enforce any change to make reservation truly based ecnomic condition. How many educated, rich people are willing to forego the reservation benefits ? Instead of creating a law to regulate admissions, allow opening of more colleges and give education to all interested people. Even in goverment institutions, employment should be given only to deserving candidate based on skills and not based on religion/caste. How many of these politicians are willing to go to a government doctor who got posting only because he belong to certain section of society ? If We start questioning these guys, then things will fall in place.
An excellent article. I fully agree with the author on his views on secularism. However, there is no harm in continuing reservation in educatinal institutions for those sects opressed for centuries.
This archaic much maligned slogan will be out of place if we encourage 'competence and excellence' instead of 'quota system' in our national thinking.No preference except for capabilty .
As long as we are defining our thoughts, things, relationships, behaviours, etc etc we will be moving into nowhere. Since 1947 we are doing this and we are where we are today.. Still searching our nation's objective and our methods to achieve that objective. We have to be simple in our definitions.
Let us just look at people as persons (human beings)and not as dalits, minorities, schedule castes, sons of the soil, hindu, musalmaan, parsi, sikh, christian, NRI (this is a new addition), etc etc. IN pre independence India we had 4 as Brahaman, Kshatiya, Vaisya and sudra. In post independent India we have over a dozen classifications. Have we progressed?? NO. To all readers I have to state that "Culturally as a nation we have degraded".
We have missed the bus several times on many issues, economic and social. Let us act to sweep the past and the hangovers from past AND a bold step to treat all indians in India as equals in our thoughts and deeds. We only extend favours and subsidies to those on whom nature has been unjust.
