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The curse of reservation
by BISHWARUP BHATTACHARYA on Jun 04, 2007 03:39 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

I have a 'maali' working in my house for the past 5 years and he belongs to the so called 'upper caste'. The poor man manages to earn about 2500 rupees by doing that work and he cannot impart education to his children for the simple reason that he cannot afford it. Since he is from the upper caste, the govt. believes that his forefathers had enjoyed their lives and hence now it is time for him to pay back the goodies enjoyed by his forefathers and therefore he and his family must suffer. This inspite of the fact that no one knows whether his forefathers were actually well to do or not.

Now take the case of our railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav or Ram Vilas Paswan or any other so called messiah of the downtrodden. Ofcourse their children need reservation, because their forefathers,it seems,as per our most knowledgebal politicians, had sufferred at the hands of the upper caste people about 500 years ago. Hence, it is justified that my maali,even though he can barely make both ends meet, has to atone for the kind of life his forefathers had enjoyed 500 years ago; and Laloo Yadav's family deserves special treatment everywhere because they belong to that strata of the community whose forefathers had been wronged 500 years ago;though it is a different matter that he may have enough money to buy a whole city.
This is Mother India's fate.
Mera Bharat (ka Politician) Mahaan

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  RE:The curse of reservation
by vishal sharma on Jun 05, 2007 01:28 AM   Permalink
it is the sorry state of india, ultimately it can lead to a civil war.

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