I am impressed with the doctors and students supporting the quotas. While the uppercaste antiquota medicos are heaping insult to injuries of patients, these real dedicated doctors are doing their duty and serving nation. Forget taking antiquota medicos seriously, India should literally kick out such blind selfish 'merit' zombies. It is obvious that majority of the UC media doesn't show these facts. The media wants sensational 'Rang de' style protests. What a shame!! The selfish and powerful can get away with their almost illegal bandh while the candid deserving lower caste doctors won't even get the recognition for their genuine service (they are doing double shift to fill up for their apathetic upper cast colleagues!!). So who is serving the nation now? If such is the bias against lower caste in media and most of elite management bodies, doesn't it make case of quotas stronger? The one sided debates and opinions in media only show how badly polarised all our top educational and professional institutes are. Do unbiased readers think it is possible for a deserving talented BC candidate to reach to top without helping hand of quota in such a biased society?
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by nandita on May 29, 2006 11:36 AM Permalink
tell your OBC friends to compete with the upper caste students with out quota. then you will understand why they are stamped as obcs.! the people like u are makeing us to comment like this!
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by debanjan on May 27, 2006 06:32 PM Permalink
u seem a frustrated OBC to me..not only r u ruthless but go on babbling without any justification of ur comments ...thank god and the ministers that there r quotas waiting for ppl like u or else u would have understood y these doctors are going on hunger strikes ..they had to work hard to study medical at AIIMS and other medical colleges ..not like u championing the slogan "proud to be an OBC" ..hey man wake up b4 its too late bcoz its for ppl like u that the quota is going to be implemented.
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by abhinav on May 29, 2006 01:21 PM Permalink
I am greatly saddened at the state of affairs in our country. Eveyone wants a piece of the cake....without having to put any effort for it. I have seen lot of SC/ST (leave alone OBC) compete in the general quota...and not take advantage of the reservation system. They were deserving self respecting men. I donot understand...how a self respecting man would feel proud of getting some degree while in his heart of heart he knows that he did not deserve it.
The media is only depicting and supporting the fundamental right of every Indian to an equal opportunity. This is clearly a politicians shameless gamble to get more votes. Tell me one thing - why does not the government do the reservation on poverty basis??? Why does it not come out with schemes to improve primary education in villages?? I feel it is a plot...by the foreigner (Sonia Gandhi) to destroy our reason for progress - which is our wonderful and fair education system. It is a plot to see that the country does not suceed and become a superpower it is destined to. But I have faith in the people. Hindus should not let a foreigner divide us again based on caste. Let us be one and we will rule the world. Jai Hind!!!
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by Prakash Mudholkar on May 27, 2006 08:13 PM Permalink
Well said Debanjan. I am proud of you.
Looks like these so called OBCs, SCs and STs will soon want reservations in U.S. Universities as well. I was once asked by a person who was from an SC background whether U.S. Universities will allow him to be taken as he was from backward class.
The true reason for the caste system not disappearing in India is not because of the Forward caste people not accepting these so called backward caste people into the mainstream. It is because these backward class people themselves like to keep calling themselves as SCs, STs etc...
How else will they reap the benefits of the reservations once they become forward castes...?
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by Mayank on May 28, 2006 03:02 AM Permalink
1) Same media had a strong and good coverage of Narmada Bachao Andolan and I hope you won't say that they did for upper class or forward class and there are many instances in past. So stop accusing media and get some facts which can be presented in favour of Pro-reservation (if u have any)
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by Kaushik Das on May 28, 2006 11:43 PM Permalink
It's their jobs that are going. You are getting free jobs even without working hard enough. If you care about patients so much, then you should champion the cause of merit even more. What will happen to the patients when substandard people become doctors? As far as double shifts are concerned, all doctors have to do continuous shifts sometime or the other in their lives. Will you have reservation in that also? We know very well that you guys have merit. It's time for you to accept that.
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by Prakash Mudholkar on May 31, 2006 07:10 PM Permalink
Well said Debanjan. I am proud of you.
Looks like these so called OBCs, SCs and STs will soon want reservations in U.S. Universities as well. I was once asked by a person who was from an SC background whether U.S. Universities will allow him to be taken as he was from backward class.
You all will be astounded at the dropout rate of the SC, ST people at the IITS and other Institutes. Rest of them somehow manage to finish their respective degrees in six, seven, eight years...Many are still doing.
The true reason for the caste system not disappearing in India is not because of the Forward caste people not accepting these so called backward caste people into the mainstream. It is because these backward class people themselves like to keep calling themselves as SCs, STs etc...
How else will they reap the benefits of the reservations once they become forward castes...?
