Quota - "Ladoo and Diabetes"

Quota is like a ladoo, which is liked by everyone but some can not taste that because they fall in the diabetic category. I am one of them so my point of view about this ladoo might be somewhat disturbing for those who really enjoy this.

Quota, as defined by some great social leaders is the weapon for social reform, uplifting lower castes and equality in the country. What I think about the quota is that it is the price the government parties are willing to pay to the violent and specific category of voters in turn for their victory.

“The Hindu” articulated the reason why the government has accepted the 5% separate quota recently that “Protestors residing nearby Delhi grab the limelight easily by blocking all the main roads and rails and the government is often left with no option but to give in to the demands of the protestors. Whereas the protestors in the far north-east have not been given this kind of importance, despite all their efforts to create instability and unrest.” This makes me think why Delhi (the government) is so afraid of violence rather than opposing this with the very same force. It is puzzling to me as to why there is this discrimination between Delhi and not only the north-east but also the rest of the country.

There is another issue which I am concerned about is caste based reservation. In U.P. these people from the Scheduled Castes first demand for the quota and while this is being taken into consideration they are ready to be called “scheduled caste” OR pichdi/choti jaati ke log” but if it is some other occasion when they are referred to as “Chamaar” OR “Bhangi” which no doubt they are, will cause a havoc. When Brahmins are called “Pundit” OR “Brahmin” and Vaishya or Baniyas are called “Baniya” OR “Lala” then why is there this big issue in calling Shudras a “Bhangi” OR “Chamaar”. On one hand they want to be “Pichdi/Choti Jaati ke log” for securing the seats, then why is the earth under their feet cracking when they are called by there caste name on a regular day.

The chief minister once said:

“Tilak, tarazu aur talwar, teenon ko maaro joote char”

(we should hate and take revenge from all upper caste people (Tilak represents Brahmins, Tarazu represents all Vaishya and traders class people and Talwar represents Shatriya)) which conveys a message of their hatred to all classes of society except their own. And when votes were needed from the same upper caste people, the quotation changed to

“Yeh haathi nahin Ganesh hai, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh hai”

(Brahma, the god of knowledge and creation representing Brahmins, Vishnu, the God of food and prosperity representing Vaishya and Mahesh, the God of destruction representing Shatriyas) conveying that all upper caste people are worth worshiping, what do they want to convey?

I am not a supporter of caste/race discrimination but till these divisions are there, this barrier can not vanish. Quota and reservations are not the effective solutions in the present condition, what is needed is the alleviation of poverty irrespective of caste.

In case of administrative services there should be no quota at all, we need to govern the country, not a candy shop. When it comes to handling a country and its development then how would a person who doesn’t even have adequate information and knowledge about all this be able to handle this. There are many people from reserved categories who are very brilliant and crack the UPSC, these are the ones the country needs, others should be inspired by them and not just be dependent on the quota.

In my opinion establishment of quota/reservation instead of filling the gap in our society is creating a bigger crater, as the people who have sound knowledge in these particular topics are standing aside and the others with no such qualities are taking advantages. If this is not going to stop then one after another every one will demand for the quota, and government will no doubt approve that because of its vote bank. Which makes me think that can quota exceed a limit of 100%?

Hindi and Hindustaan

हिन्दी और हिन्दुस्तान (Hindi and Hindustaan) does not seem to be an interesting topic; you would be willing to kill your time for, but it is something which forces me to think about the condition of my country and language Hindi some 80 or 90 years later. Why are we adopting the English way rather than following our Hindi way?

The very first question that would come to your mind is "Why is this person commenting on the condition of Hindi and Hindustaan when he himself is using English to write this stuff?"
Same question came to my mind also just before writing this article but the reason why i am writing this in English is some of my fellow countrymen don't understand Hindi and among those few who understand, 70% think that this language is not worthy at all so if this was written in Hindi; they would have clicked to the cross sign at right most top corner of the window by now.(In terms of cyber aware population)

One thing which i could not understand till now in this regard (as i do have this not understanding problem in so many topics) is why we Indians don't give a damn about our own language despite of the fact that we know plenty of examples like Germany, UK, Russia, Japan and many others who used their own languages as the building block of their achievements. What better example can i give you than the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia which is available online in languages like French Portuguese Spanish .!.but not in Hindi .!. Only we ourselves are to be blamed not anyone else. Why we just follow others, to the level of of adopting their language. I am not against English or any other regional language but why can't we be united. Wouldn't it be better if every body from Himalaya to Kanyakumari speaks Hindi leading to prosperous and powerful India as it would lead to great coordination in terms of business and trade (where Marwari from Gujarat don't feel like trading with some trader of U.P.) as well as defense sector (here Rajput regiment of Rajasthan think themselves different from Gorkha regiment of Utterakhand ). As Bhartendu Harishchandra has said :

"निज भाषा उन्नति अहें, सब उन्नति को मूल |
बिन निज भाषा ज्ञान के, मिटे न हिय को शूल ||"

One can raise a point why same can’t be done using English which is used by so many others around the globe. It can be done but it would take another century to do that as more than 70% of our country's population don't have any exposure to this foreign language and those who know it have all different levels of understanding,(4 percent of the population use English - http://www.chillibreeze.com/EnglishinIndia.asp) I would rather say "Kab tak hum dusaron ka bojhe dhote rahenge" its time to do our own stuff , to unite the country in a whole new way. Shri Maithli Sharan Gupta has said:

"जिसको न निज भाषा तथा निज देश का अभिमान है|
वह नर नहीं हैं पशु निरा और मृतक समान है ||"

Oh! you must be thinking about that 80 or 90 years later thing, I am coming to that point :
Imagine your children sitting along with your Grand children talking and behaving in some Hi Fi English manner, when suddenly your Grand son asks his father about Hindi and he replies "this was a cryptic(in sarcastic way) language which was used by few foolish and illiterate human being in some parts of the country at time of your Grand father. He himself never used that and never allowed me to do the same!"

How would sobbing heart of your soul feel about what you had done to your मातृभाषा and मातृभूमि, sitting in Heaven/Hell ???

I don't know if i made some sense to you, anyways thanks for investing your valuable time.