Checkout this flickr photostream for more photos.I don't see any students here. These look like thugs to me, collected in a van by leftist parties. Only one woman can be seen, on the far right. She is fat, but that's besides the point.
A few days ago, I mentioned that Dalits were complaining why I was targeting them, Mandal II isn't even about them. Well, the reason is complex.
As you can see, if it is not about them, why would they go out and hold pro-reservation rallies in the first place? The answer partially lies in the way reservation is justified. In a few minutes of argument, the economic logic falls flat on its face. Then they start showing you horrifying pictures of hunger. However, you quickly point out that reservation to a privileged Dalit kid in New Delhi isn't even remotely likely to feed a hungry child in Chattisgarh. That created a significant problem and not easy to answer. To counter this, various Brahmin hate sites such as DalitVoice, Dalitstan, CounterCurrents etc. have sprung up.
Their logic is as follows:
1. About 3000 years ago, a Brahmin, heckled a Dalit.
2. The Dalit dude got traumatized
3. As a result, even privileged Dalits today suffer from some sort of a trauma and can not compete.
4. Therefore, they must be compensated.
Well, again, don't even ask. We are as flummoxed as you are.
The reason these people are holding rallies is because they have smelled blood. You see, the spectre of reservation in Private sector has not really gone away. See here. Reservation you see, is a one way street. It can never be reduced, it can never be repealed. The demands keep getting higher and higher. If you concede even an inch, you have in principle accepted the argument for reservation.
Who benefits from it? Well, a materials science professor in IISc is blogging till kingdom come as a pre-emptive measure. If they don't promote him, he will claim he has been victimized by his upper-caste departmental head. Shivam Vij enjoys his metro ride in New Delhi. Annie got a scholarship in Scotland. And check out this dude, he writes flaming articles for CounterCurrents.org, doing his PhD from Singapore (scroll down for pic). Topic of his PhD thesis? You guessed it!
So as you can see, reservation has created a cottage industry of freeloaders who exploit it to the hilt. Does it solve the hunger problem? Hell, no. I know some Dalits from college who can party like there is no tomorrow. Why would they care? Why should they? The idea that sending an IAS officer's kid to IIT will somehow feed Ram Dulari's kids is a pipe dream at best.
It is no wonder that the pro-reservation folks have joined hands with the communists. Both are nothing else but looter's creeds.
1 comment:
Heard you wanted profiles of the otherindia bloggers.
-dilip dsouza as you know is a wannabe p sainath, writing articles against hindus and free markets. always one-sided. he has a personal stake in creating a pro-poor-pro-dalit-pro-muslim image so he gets paid by newspapers and NGOs to write about those issues.
-shivam is a tyke who is in college studying literature, but wants to be a journalist like dilip. pathetically failing at it since he has made a thousand commitments for writing all over delhi but failed on them all. from a rich connected family, he went to stephen's, delhi's top college. yet, he has the balls to tell people "whats the fuss about reservations? there are enough number of seats". so while he studies in stephens thanks to papaji's donation, he wants others to study in shady colleges.
- Uma is an IAS officer. I dont think she writes anything stupid on the blog and is the only sane one in the lot.
- Vikrum is an NRI from South America. He has known pro-left leanings. He is like a tourist here, as of now just travelling in the north east, and teaching in NGOs and working in orphanages. but it is just a phase. he will go back to a cushy existence wherever he came from.
- Anand of Locana, disgusted by how the blog turned out with the domination of Shivam Vij, has quit the blog. However his quitting has been kept secret to save face, and his name is still there on the roll, though he hasnt written anything in months
- Annie, as you know is a beneficiary of the system, yet wants to subvert it further for her own purpose.
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