Wednesday, October 22, 2008

In the name of religion

Do political parties or politicians prepare crime? I am inclined to say a 'yes'. We dreamt of a country where people will stay together in communal harmony irrespective of caste or religion. Then why is there a communal disharmony around the country? Why are people not sure of getting back home safely in the evening after work? This is the state of a country which once used to boast of itself being called 'sone ki chidiyan'(Golden Bird). Am afraid, today things have changed drastically.

What is happening today in Maharashtra is ridiculous. What is MNS doing? They have the right to hit people, they have the right to decide every individuals constitutional right,they even have right to destruct the governmental property.
They hit girls and say it was done to save the right of the Marathi Manus. Why aren't the politicians not held for all these things? Even if they are arrested they would be released within few hours of drama.

The country is heading towards a communal divide in identities. The BJP regularly plays the hindutva trump card to show the cultural injustice brought to the hindus by other communities. They blame muslims for driving kashmiri pandits out of kashmir in 1960's, for not allowing to build their beloved 'ram' temple in ayodhya, for terror activities among many things, christians for indulging in unethical religious conversions. But how can they justify the killing of 2000 people in the name of Ram.

No religion in this world provides for the killing of innocent people for a greater cause, raping of a woman for the sake of teaching a lesson or for that matter converting to another religion. Its a sorry state of affairs in our country where the citizens are even sorry to note that our politicians follow this unacceptable form of religion with their characterstic outrageous and ridiculous sense.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Is reservation the solution? - Its racism

I was reading an old article where Arjun Singh called 'reservation' in educational institutions as an 'Historic decision'. I really dont know how historic it is, but I feel its a kind of racism.

Is the indian society moving forward? The answer is an obvious NO!!! How long are we going to divide people based on caste? The recent verdict of supreme court has raised the reservation to 49%. It is like using a sword for sewing cloth. If a person is not equipped to make in to a premier institute , he(she) will not make it anyway.

Won't it create a kind of racism among students? A student who finds difficult to get into the college or to find a job, will obviously fly abroad to get his(her) confidence back. The government is just closing the doors for them. It's high time, people stop complaining about brain drain because it is the system which is to be blamed.

I am not even sure if someone from reservation category, who has talent and capability would be happy with this verdict. No matter how good they are they will be alwaysjudged by the caste.

There are multiple ways of solving a problem.It will a long time for the system to become mature. For the politicians,the desire to be on the seat is much more than the desire to do some good.

I feel reservation is racism.