'Caste'd
After getting wet in some chilly winter rains, I was sitting in my warm and comfortable guest house, sipping hot ‘Adrak ki Chai’ and surfing channels. In the process I came across, ‘Aaj Tak’, that boast about being the best News channel in the country, I put my remote at rest as it was running a story on Indian cricket. I enjoy watching reports in media, when they hail our cricketers the best in the world and change their opinion after the tournament, mind you with a great dramatic effect.
But this time it was different! They were not scrutinizing the players, but raising a very important social issue within the country! They were questioning, why is it that there is no ‘Dalit’ in the Indian cricket team!’
I felt a warm gratitude to the producers of the show, who very painstakingly looked up for data, dating back to 1929, when a Dalit was made the captain of a club team, and how even after so many years, there has been no change in the Indian caste system! What I would like to know is, where did this caste system begin?
I want to ask them a simple question, aren’t there enough problems in the country to draw the public attention to? There are floods; there is Chinese conspiracy, the cross border terrorism and the in-house naxals to worry about. Why do you build a story that will do nothing but, give the political leaders like Mayawati and the likes, another point to bully the government or for that matter BCCI (believe me they can very well do that)!
There will be another morcha and another few hundred thousands will loose a days salary and will listen to never concluding debates. There is enough time being wasted in our two houses on dismal issues, please don’t build any!
The idea of reservation, was to help them come up, give them privileges for a short amount of time, so that they can rebuild and regroup themselves. But instead of adding that, we are feeding them wit more comforts each day and winning elections to eat public wealth. Please correct me if I am wrong.
The idea is to remove these castes and walk as a nation, not to have reservations and increase the divide!
Anyways, coming back to the best news channel in the country, what are you suggesting that we have a reservation there? Do we have a dalit or someone from the backward classes as captain, and not on merit?
If you look at the figures in out IIT’s the number of students entering the course and then the numbers subsequently graduating is different. Any idea why? Well the students that enter an IIT, through various caste reservations, are unable to cope up with the studies and then subsequently drop out from the course! This means, that those seats through which another deserving candidate could have made a career for himself is wasted!
It is my earnest request to the media channels in the country that respect the position of being one of the pillars of the Indian constitution, help build a unified nation, not a divided state!
