I have turned 18 this year, and so did most of my friends. We even graduated from school and now in the coming months, we're all going to attempt to get into various prestigious colleges across the nation. One thing that worries most of us is, the reservation system. While most of us feel that this system in some way or the other is serving a good purpose, I'll tell you why … [Read more...]
HOLYstic Hypocrisy associated with Caste, creed, religion and GOD knows what!
We Indians preserve a very repugnant taste about caste, creed and religion. These three are among the building columns of Indian society. These three act as an identity triangle that helps in chalking out an Indian from a rabble. We are overtly religious; we volunteer more rituals than any other sects in the world for it is being indoctrinated in our mind and soul that rituals … [Read more...]
Stop Bitching About Reservations. Here’s Why I Think That Reservation In India Is A Good Thing!
Reservation is wrong? Isn’t it? But so is the fact that most of you reading this were born in a well to do family and not in a rickshaw Walla’s family or a poor farmer’s family. Were you? Why should you be given the right to go to a top class school? Just because your father gets a hefty pay check, and a backward caste poor man can’t afford to send his child to such a … [Read more...]
Caste Based Reservation in India – Its hard hitting Facts and Political Failure
It makes me wonder that despite reaching Mars in its maiden attempt, we still haven't granted the ISRO, the liberty to recruit their scientists on the basis of their talent as even this department of the Indian Government has to recruit the individuals not just on the basis of their talent, but by the virtue of their caste. I, the writer is not against caste but I am against … [Read more...]
The Act of Indifference – When are we Indians going to speak up?
I remember, as a little girl, I used to flip through the glossy pages of magazines like ‘India Today’ , ‘TIME’ and ‘Frontline’ scattered on our coffee table and stare at the colorful pictures. For a girl of eleven, things like proper governance and crime didn’t hold much of an importance. But while I sat there and pretended to read, I often came across big words that I did not … [Read more...]