Meet Krish, the blogger at www.krishworld.com. If you visit this site, you will find lots of useful (I am guessing) information and news about open source software. However, this isn't the most interesting side of Krish. For that you will have click here. Don't try to find that link on the main site, it isn't there.The reason I am writing this post is because I exchanged comments with him yesterday.
Well, like his hero Dr. Martin Luther King, Krish has a dream. In short, Krish's dream reads like the manifesto of pro-reservationists albeit crowned by this jewel:
" I have a dream that these people will understand that equality is more important than quality."
Allow me to digress a little bit here. Perhaps Krish doesn't know, Dr. King was accused of plagiarising about a third of his doctoral dissertation. Perhaps Krish should know, because he has shown a very keen interest in the recent Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism controversy.
Back to Krish again. How about a little introduction? In Krish's own words:
About me
My name is Krish and I am a 100% anti right wing person (on social issues). In my opinion, right wingers and people who support right wingers are a group of primitive human beings who are far from being civilized. Using evolution, I would say that they are the ancestors to the civilized people.
Fair enough, at one point of time man made the jump from primitives to civilized human beings. The question is how many generations back are we? Krish wouldn't say. Perhaps we should ask him, how many generations of reservations will the Dalits need?
I support Gandhian principles but I am very far away from getting into his level. It is evident from the harsh words I have for right wingers. In the above, by right wingers I mean right wingers on social front. On the economic side, I am on the right side.
Now, isn't that convenient? He is firmly on our side in economic matters. He wouldn't elaborate how exactly he draws the line.
This is followed by a stern warning:
If you are a hard nosed conservative, get lost. This is not a place for you. You are better off watching fox channel or visitng Kanchi Mutt or listening to some sermon in a madarasa. If you visit, in spite of this warning, your a** is going to be kicked here.
Guess I didn't pay heed to his warnings, so got my rear kicked here. In any case, since I was persistent in reading his blog, I thought perhaps a little bit of a lesson in common sense a la Krish couldn't hurt:
Common sense 101
Some people can understand deeper issues easily based on common sense. For many others, the very concept of common sense is not that common. Legally, external factors like reservations are not possible to "upgrade" their common sense. This is a basic 101 level course established to "educate" the weaker minds about deeper issues.
I didn't quite get the middle sentence, which basically proves Krish's point perhaps.A further exploration of Krish's site reveals his interest in a mind numbing array of subjects. Just like his love-hate relationship (or should we say parent-child because we are supposed to "evolve" into him) with right-wingers, he loves the media, hates the media, loves America, hates America, is concerned about global warming, media bias, fundamentalists, Hindutva, BJP, Aishwarya-Salman romance, Israeli couple rebuked for kissing ... the list goes on.
The pattern seemed familiar. Trying to solve all of world's problems with one broad stroke, impractical idealism, anguished tone. Perhaps we will not evolve into him after all. We will just wait till he evolves into one of us, the hated right-wingers!
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