"Reservation",
as and when it comes in to news, unfettered reactions fills up entire
socio-political space. In normal situations one seldom raises issues of
caste, discrimination, untouchability but when something related to
"reservation' or some other means of affirmative action occupies space, I
could see many a apolitical metrosexuals, even the ones usually keeping
arms length with the political milieu instantly transform as the
biggest caretakers and solution providers of the above mentioned social
evils..
To me this behaviour indicates something pseudo,
something unrealistic, a reactionary political move which has no real
sympathy with the eradication of the caste system. If at all one wants
to weed out the root causes of the prevalent social evils, one must dare
enough to talk about the evils consistently and refrain from making
occasional reactionary remarks. It only shows the real character of the
reaction which is nothing less than a political one rather for a social
remedy.
Truly said that communalism is nothing less than the
aspirations of the burgeoning middle class of instant solution seekers
who can go to any damn levels of hypocrisy.
Truth is that if
the country really were to be the land of Mahatmas and saints in real
terms, no social evil would have existed as it exists now. For a not so
mahatma like nation only coercion had been a comparatively effective
tool. Time since independence had been proof to this assumption. I hope
the future of my country falsifies this. I shall be the happiest...
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