The date is 10th April 2008, supreme court upholds the OBC quota of 27.5 pc reservation in institutes of national importance, or to simplify for the elite-institutes funded by the central government from the tax money of the quotad and unquoatad alike. Now this brings the total percentage of students reserved in these institutes to 49.5 pc , the highest that is possible within the constitution rules , without any amendment. So until the next governing party realises that they are too weak to win votes on their credibility and need some urgent steps to win some more votes by 'uplifting the socially backward classes' the constitution will stay intact and the reservation will stay intact.So that is half the seats in these institutes, and apparently to not 'effect' the open category seats they are going to increase the total number of seats, i fail to understand the math here though, so this is 49.5 pc of what? and by what pc will they increase the total seats anddd what is 'effect' .Anyways lets leave all that aside, i am not here to play karan thapar, and all those who have 'ethical', 'numerical', 'economical','social',and 'common sensical' qualms about the law please go watch the 'Devils Advocate' episode on Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh, he clears all those doubts in it quite enigmatically. I am here to ask our visionary "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" "who will marry a telugu brahmin?" now. By getting your daughter married to some1 with a quota one does not only get a secured future of his daughter but also garuntees a bright future to their children, and what does one get from marrying a brahmin groom? nothing, except the added burden of seeing through their children pass 10, 11,12 and then stay awake with them to get them prepared for , engg, medicine,mba, and by the time they are done with it they have to get him married again, which again as the main point of this blog suggests is tough since who will want to get their daughter married to a telugu brahmin. And for brahmin girls it is even more difficult because they don't even come along with 1C, 2C ...4C packages unlike their more privilaged friends. So this is a cordial request from me to our "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" to please introduce reservation for brahmin girls and guys in marriages starting this fiscal year to save the endangered species from being cut off from the planet completely. please sir do consider it, i actually have few suggestions too to make your job simpler,
1) 22.39 pc all quota 'potential' brides reserved for brahmin guys
2) 27.60 pc all quota 'potential' grooms reserved for brahmin girls
3) 39.23 pc all quota senior citizen grooms reserved for senior citizen brahmin brides
4) 10.7 pc all quota senior citizen brides reserved for senior citizen brahmin grooms
*Senior citizen= above 50 years , and still capable.
And i hope our "Hon'ble minister for human resource Development Arjun singh" realises that my efforts are only to bring in social harmony and common well being and nothing else.
(I really dont mean to hurt any1 or be communal or anything, this is just an attempt to have a comic take on the ongoing events, and to those who actually want to know my take on the reservation bill, its as much a political move by a party as any other, i personally do not believe reservation based on caste will serve any purpose but i do believe that not every1 can access the same sources during their priliminary education days and hence may deserve some consideration but that is only on financial basis and not on caste basis. I believe caste based reservation only darkens the very communal boundaries which it aims at erasing and are actually nothing but voting trump cards political parties use)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
cleavage is always hotter than what they give way to
no this is about one of my personal experiences, and no there is no justification to the title , i just liked the phrase , i used it .
To all those who have gone through my previous blog-thank you.
All those people who give up on their branch , either because of the branch or more often than not because of their own feeble efforts in making their choice right if not making a right choice start wondering how did it all start ,3/4th deep into the waters already. I really don't want to sound a loser whining about how unfair it has been to me and all , seriously i don't, ya i know my previous blog suggests otherwise.for now though i am not here to whine. So, during one such contemplations the same old question popped up " is it really right to choose what you want to be and do in future based upon your performance in an entrance exam which doesnt even test you in those fields" and just to make things clear, i am putting up this question here just because it makes up for a good debate and on my part i will forward my views on it or atleast try and put things in perspective for may be you guys to give your views.
Personally i think iits at least should have a screening procedure to maintain certain basic standards among its students to keep producing the kind of engineers or people (if 'engineers' sounds way too technical) it has been known to. It also becomes necessary for the students to have that potential in them to survive in a place like this . So i for one think there must definitely be a selective admission into such institutes but it is with how one gets to choose his majors that i lack coherence. Shouldn't one be free enough to choose what to do, wont the best in him come out when put to work under free forces within his concise . But having said that i really doubt if there is an alternative at all to this.Hardly 1 out of 10 during their counselling is even able to make an educated guess as to what should be his major for the next four years and may be beyond. And it is newtons -1th law that if left alone 9 out of 10 would opt for CS and not necessarily because they see themselves as software professionals, so that isn't freedom of choice either. Apparently even the iits have been thinking about this problem and rumour goes that one suggestion they have come up with is to allow students to chose their majors after the 1st year,which is mostly include introductory courses to all the depts. Anyways dont ask my why am i even writing this blog,just a bit too jobless.
To all those who have gone through my previous blog-thank you.
All those people who give up on their branch , either because of the branch or more often than not because of their own feeble efforts in making their choice right if not making a right choice start wondering how did it all start ,3/4th deep into the waters already. I really don't want to sound a loser whining about how unfair it has been to me and all , seriously i don't, ya i know my previous blog suggests otherwise.for now though i am not here to whine. So, during one such contemplations the same old question popped up " is it really right to choose what you want to be and do in future based upon your performance in an entrance exam which doesnt even test you in those fields" and just to make things clear, i am putting up this question here just because it makes up for a good debate and on my part i will forward my views on it or atleast try and put things in perspective for may be you guys to give your views.
Personally i think iits at least should have a screening procedure to maintain certain basic standards among its students to keep producing the kind of engineers or people (if 'engineers' sounds way too technical) it has been known to. It also becomes necessary for the students to have that potential in them to survive in a place like this . So i for one think there must definitely be a selective admission into such institutes but it is with how one gets to choose his majors that i lack coherence. Shouldn't one be free enough to choose what to do, wont the best in him come out when put to work under free forces within his concise . But having said that i really doubt if there is an alternative at all to this.Hardly 1 out of 10 during their counselling is even able to make an educated guess as to what should be his major for the next four years and may be beyond. And it is newtons -1th law that if left alone 9 out of 10 would opt for CS and not necessarily because they see themselves as software professionals, so that isn't freedom of choice either. Apparently even the iits have been thinking about this problem and rumour goes that one suggestion they have come up with is to allow students to chose their majors after the 1st year,which is mostly include introductory courses to all the depts. Anyways dont ask my why am i even writing this blog,just a bit too jobless.
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