Reservations
A Facebook share against reservations this morning inspired me to put my thoughts together on “Reservations”, the most celebrated mockery of Indian intellect…
If I were given a special provision in any group for any reason, I would feel insulted, for that would mean, that it is openly recognized, that I am not as competent…. oh! How shameful would that be!!!
And it amazes me that each day in India, there are people demanding, fighting and totally bitter until they are called “backward”…. And then there is celebration at being declared as such…. and total outrage if they are branded “forward”…
Does that not sound counter intuitive???
This one policy is breeding laziness, mediocracy and a feeling of entitlement in people… each trait more undesirable than the other…. It is setting the entire country to settle to the lowest common denominator…. Stunting National growth generation after generation!
Let me present to you two exhibits… and if you, by virtue of your birth, have things “reserved” for you, think for yourself which example you would rather set…
Exhibit 1:
A SC girl in my engineering class had scored “-2” in her Engineering entrance exam… she had a free seat as she had her seat reserved… she had to endure ridicule through those 4 years.
Exhibit 2:
A BC friend of mine would have received a better seat had he gone in the reserved category after his engineering exam… he felt it was insulting to him to do so, and chose the seat that was given to him in the open category… he has everyone’s respect!
I, many times tend to question the psyche of the people that conceptualized this system and put it in force… how myopic a view!!!
And now the tragedy is that any political party, person of influence or a common man that dares talk against reservations is immediately viewed as a villain by these “backward” people… and I say to them… “How dare you!!! You are at the one end accepting intellectual inferiority, and at the other end when we are telling you that you are wrong, you have the bloody audacity to display your pathetic outrage??? Shut up you inferior mouths, until you have developed the class in your petty heads to stand up to people that are agreeably superior to you!”…
The fact is… a majority of the guys that are getting these benefits are not actually intellectually inferior which was the original thought behind giving them these special provisions…
Try debating these people on what the latest movie of their favorite star is or what dress they wore on a specific occasion…. you will find yourself scratching dust! It’s not that they are intellectually inferior! It’s just that we have created a system where they can afford for their interest to be something totally worthless given that their careers are cemented in the reservation cocoon….
I challenge all people that have a reservation… “shake yourselves off this vile curse of being viewed as inferior… stop amassing sympathy…. instead stand as men and women that you want to rub shoulders with…. stand on equal footing with us… compete with us… work with us…. build our country together with us!”…
I trust that you are as good as we are…. I exhort you to trust the same and prove your true worth!!!
We will all stand together with you in your fight for being recognized as “forward”….
Let’s all say ‘NO TO RESERVATIONS’….
