And, when you talk about reservation, it seems as if you're taking only medical seats into consideration. In TN, we don't have this problem for Engineering seats, as they are in surplus. When a similar situation is created for medical schools, this too, will pass. Despite having 'reservations' and the overhyped 'doctors who are doctors because of reservation are duds', we have one of the best healthcare systems among Indian states, have one of the lowest rates of infant mortality, high life expectancy and better primary healthcare. Such 'people who got reservation are duds' arguments are utterly racist, and you would know better how such stupid arguments will be treated in France, or the USA.
Abdul Kalam is a Tamilian, and as per the current classification, he is a BC. Don't his missiles fly? You will never understand this. You people are like the judges in Camus' 'The stranger'. You have no clue of the psyche behind a society, and the only way you approach this is to homogenize the entire country and give an 'encapsulated' judgment to everything - religion, caste, languages, cultures. You don't want to accept that India's diversity can still work. Sorry, IT WILL.
RE:Mr.Gautier - you're disconnected from the Indian Psyche
by Why me? on Jul 18, 2006 04:58 AM Permalink
Dude Param,
Le Corbusier planned Chandigarh - it's a planned city built about 50 years ago. Don't compare it with Chennai, which grew without planning from the late 1600s just because it was an offshoot of British settlement.
And, what do you find so bad about the dirt? Even in Paris people piss on the walls - so drop this deflection and stick to the point. Everybody knows for a fact that Maharashtra and Gujarat are more industrialized than TN - so do you attribute all this development in Maharashtra and Gujarat to upper castes, and give the shitty end of the stick to TN because you feel these OBC morons from TN screwed up the state? What about the central Indian states, dear? Jharkand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajastan - etc? Lucknow was Vajpayee's constituency, and its railway station was like a hell-hole. One can point fingers in all directions - what I said was that in TN, reservations were successful, and the progress of the state hasn't slackened due to that. Don't twist facts.
And for your 'incompetent doctors my father is facing' anecdotal logic, and the blind DMK-Ramadoss-Dravidian party bashing, I understand what you're getting at ;-). Wail on, wail!
RE:Mr.Gautier - you're disconnected from the Indian Psyche
by param on Jul 09, 2006 09:32 AM Permalink
My father is experiencing the "fine reservation" healthcare system in TN now with complications caused by incompetent doctors who do not like to be challenged. SOmewhat like Ramadoss. Compared to TN, Maharashtra and Gujarat are much better in many respects, infrastructure, healthcare, business, exports, you should see the roads and ports in those states! Chandigarh and Surat are the cleanest cities in India. Just look at Chennai, stiking of garbage drains with poverty stricken loongi wearing people everywhere. All these Tamil idiots read this DMK propaganda instead of going to other places. I guess at least the DMK is good for that.
RE:Mr.Gautier - you're disconnected from the Indian Psyche
by Why me? on Aug 02, 2006 08:33 PM Permalink
Param - equating reservation with lack of talent (and not with lack of opportunity) only shows how decrepit a thought process can be, and by extending this logic to collapsing bridges, punctured out eyes, silting canals and every problem under the sun you only paint an illusive picture of those over-inflated 'cataclysmic negative impacts' due to reservation. And you come back to the age-old question of why politicians fly to the UK/US. Following your own logic, do you think there is not even a single doctor in India who did not use reservation to get their medical degree? Do you mean to say that doctors who enter medical colleges under open competition also have shaky hands and souped-up brains? Politicians go there because they THINK they can get better healthcare abroad. It need not necessarily be true. In fact, health tourism is picking up, and westerners come to India to get cheaper healthcare. On the contrary, there are also people in US who think their HMO physicians are crappy - did they get reservations, too? Instead of using anecdotal generalizations and preconceived notions as bludgeons against reservation, try to look into reality that always seeps around you.
