Thursday, September 14, 2006

Do we have a right to be called 'CIVILIZED' ?

Today was one of the worst days of my life......after todays incident my faith in humanity is comletely shatered.I think we people are even worse than animals as we don't have any love for other human beings.

wait just let me start from the begining

Today in the morning as I and my friend Shivanshu were returning to the college from 'Gole Ka Mandir' we saw that there had been an accident and some 60-65 people were gathered there. As we approched the site we found that two scooters have collided and three men were injured ,two of them were in serious condition. I heard people shouting "call the police", "take them to the hospital" but nobody came forward. The victims were lying in sun and nobody even cared to shift them to shade. The third person who was consious was crying for help but nobody listened to him as everybody was busy in one thing or another, some were calling to different newspaper offices to tell them about the accident and others were busy in talking about the accident. So we came forward, i helped him to shift them to shade and my friend went to fetch an auto. I also called their relatives telling them about the accident. After sometime police arrived and a few minutes later the relatives of those who were injured also arrived and they rushed them to the hospital.

After sometime Shivanshu returned alongwith an auto so i asked him what took him so long and after hearing his reply i was realy shocked. All this time he was trying to convice the 'Autowallas' to come with him to help those who were injured but nobody came so finally he has to lie to bring one. I don't know who's gonna help these kind of people if something of this sort happens to them.

Well this incident has proved the greatness of the people of our country. We always brag about our moral values, culture and ethics and i realy don't know where these kind of values gonna take us when they cann't teach us to help our own countrymen. We usualy refer to the people of western countries as 'Emotionaly Dead' but i think its the other way around, its we people who are emotionaly dead and not them.

We call overself civilized and at the same time we enjoy watching our brothers and sisters dying in front of our eyes. When we cann't even help other human beings i don't think we have a right to be called 'CIVILIZED'.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Reservation In Parliament

Before writing this blog i just want to say that i m not a very good writer but i do write vat i strongly believe.

This is a very simle question that i ask to all the political parties supporting the reservation in educational institutes, Will they ever bring an amendment in the constitution to impose 50% reservation for backward class (SC,ST,OBCs) for the parliamentary seats? Is the group of ministers ready to formulate a plan so that the no of seats for general candidates in the parliament remains same? We all know that the answer is no because when it comes to the parliament these ministers can’t afford to loose their power to so called backward classes. When they can’t accept women in parliament there is nothing to talk about backward classes.

Let us now consider how many of these parties actually support growth of backward classes. Starting with the Left parties, the main front who opposed NDA govt. for its so called favoritism to upper classes. 95-98 percent of the leaders of these parties belong to upper classes and they are the people who always talk about uplifting backward classes. Same is the scenario with Congress. When these parties don’t allow the full representation to the backward classes within themselves how can they even say that they are doing all this for their benefit. They are doing this just to increase their vote bank by dividing the country on the basis of castes.

Another burning issue in the present reservation scenario is that the reservation is passed from one generation to other as inheritance. Is it some kind of legacy that is passed from one generation to another? The problem with this approach is that everytime same set of people use the reservation for their benefit while those who are actually in need of it can't make use of it because they don't have enough resources to persue their dream.One possible solution for this problem is to provide a clause in the reservation bill that the reservation once used by a person will not be passed to his/her children as inheritance. Another possible solution can be providing financial assistance to the backward classes i.e. if anyone from backward class is able to get an admission into an institute on the basis of its admission procedure then he/she will be provided with full financial assistance

The govt. took the decision unanimously without consulting the Directors/Vice Chancellors of the Universities whether it is feasible to increase seats on such large scale. This decision will crumble the infrastructure of most of the institutes, including IITs and IIMs. It is still beyond imagination how the govt. is going to provide trained faculty to these institutions when there is already a scarcity of trained faculty in most of the institutes. More importantly this unanimous decision of the govt. will degrade the quality of the education and our premier institutes will surely suffer in world ranking.

The govt. decision to implement the reservation bill will do no good to anybody except it will increase the gap between the people from upper classes and lower classes as it is clearly visible from the various anti-reservations protests going on all over the country.

That's it guys but plz do post ur comments so that i can improve my writing.