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My experience with the JNU incident - An Ethmos solution of many problems.

So, now everyone in our country wants "Azaadi" (Freedom), Bhagwan (oh sorry....I forgot to mention Allah and God....just  to be on the good books of the grand seculars of our country) only knows what sort of azaadi they want when the bulky constitution of this ancient land provides them with all sort of freedoms ranging from expression, information, and education.  May be it is this excess of freedom that has led to this kind of worsening condition of our Bharat which is going from worse to worst as days progress, no thanks to the ISI or any "external forces" but all thanks and deepest heartfelt gratitude to our own homegrown secularist partisan forces who for their own petty gains have sold the nation to these external forces.

However, the JNU row or incident has opened up a Pandora's box for our country with all sort of problems occurring at the same time for our unfortunate PM whose intentions are nothing but to make a better Bharat for all of us.  But thanks to this incident, I got a glimpse of a solution to all this issue and many more plaguing our nation.  However, I am really to sorry to say that the solution is not unique as is the case with other Ethmos solutions, but it is a great solution nonetheless.

So before we go for the solution, let me just share with you a small incident that is happening with me in our own house, which enlightened me with the solution.  As we all know by experience of science that the macro, in majority of the cases, mimics the micro.  So, if you have to study the macro, better observe the micro.  So, here goes.

I was keenly following the JNU incident since that is nowadays the best entertainment available on the TV and many of our national news channels are doing their level best to make it the most interesting TRP-vomiting drama to their viewers.  Unfortunately, I failed to notice that my 5-1/2-year-old son was also watching and listening to this stuff about "azaadi", "freedom", "secularism", "democracy", "tolerance-intolerance", "suicide", etc. and started asking me questions regarding the same.  When I explained to him about these concepts in a simplified manner for his 5-1/2-year-old brain to grasp & understand, I forgot to notice that I was pressing the wrong buttons altogether.  From the next morning onward, he started demanding for his "azaadi" to not brush his teeth, not take a bath, and not go to school.  He demanded his democratic freedom to play all throughout the day and also that since we, his parents, were responsible for bringing him into this world, it is our solemn and secular duty to make sure that we give all of our time exclusively to him only.  He demanded we should not go to work and should be there for him 24x7x365.  When explained regarding our problem and the bigger problems that will come if we don't work and earn and also explaining to him that we are actually earning and working for him only, he just remained adamant and started shouting slogans "Aryan maange azaadi (Aryan demands freedom)", "Nahane se azaadi (freedom from bathing)", "safaai se azaadi (freedom from cleanliness)", and the best but not the last one, "Kitne Aryan nehlaoge, har ghar se Aryan niklega (how many Aryans will you bathe, every house will produce a dirty Aryan)", "and finally threatened us to do "zuzide" if his demands are not met.  And yes, he also demanded that we should not be henceforth taking him to any doctor for any sort of vaccination since injections/vaccinations are painful procedures which infringe on his personal space and secular democratic constitutional freedom and which many a times require him to get denuded in front of doctors who are strangers for him, which is again a gross infringement of his personal democratic space.  I was totally aghast at the attitude of the boy and at first plucked my hairs out in frustration to explain to him the larger picture and the benefits that accrue out of our actions and also that anything and everything good in life is obtained after sacrificing and taking some pain.  But I was again missing one thing - he was my son after all and it was but natural for him to have some of my mental and physical faculties as well as genetically transferred traits and hence it will be very difficult for me to preach him "intellectually" since he is also as skull-headed as I am with the ingrained notions of "right" and "wrong" - and what "we" were doing was actually "wrong" in his eyes.  Anyways, I solved the problem in one day itself because after all I am his "baap" (father).  How??  I sat calmly on the sofa, thought for some time, and then called my son towards me with all the love and affection I had for him.  And with the same fatherly love and affection, I gave him a nice hard tight slap on his small face, so harsh that my fingers got 'signatured' on his snow-white face.  He understood what I wanted to say and the problem just solved on its own.

Which finally brings me to our solution.  Sometimes brute force is absolutely necessary to bring in some iota of wisdom in the boneheads who think that what they are doing is "right."  Forget about the country, I request each one of you reading this to ask yourself this question - Have you not ever used some or the other force on your child to discipline him/her and show him the correct path which you yourself have learned through precious and costly experiences?  Our college kids are no better than the children at our homes the only difference being that the perspective and the magnitude of perception of a problem varies with a small child and collegian. And yes, for the "sickulars" reading this - you might argue that I am questioning the entire democratic process of the country but yes, I actually am doing the same thing because simple maths tells me that only 65% of my country's population is literate (and believe me, writing one's name in any language is not literacy!).  So out of the 65% population, how many are who can actually think critically and analyze a situation to find a solution for the greater good?  This is a question which needs to be debated and of course, not to be "protested" or "intolerated".

The kids who are shouting in the JNU campus or the Jadavpur University campus or any part of the nation are just that - kids - who need to be disciplined and for bringing about discipline, preaching won't help as I have learnt from my own experience.  Fear is the best solution and I fully and unconditionally support the stand of the NaMo Government in slapping sedition charges against "intellectuals" who think they are above the nation and its government.

Which again brings me to an age-old question which I could never find an answer to - What is the requirement of a "students" union in a democratic country?  Are they any sort of daily-wage-earning labourers who need the support of a union to protect against "capitalistic discrimination"?  It is high time to ban all the union activities in all campuses in the country.  If this is brought forth, education and research quality will improve, politics will be decrease, and students will actually do what they are supposed to do - study. Period.

Thanks a lot Ethmos for permitting me to put forth my frustration.  I had been writhing to poop this thing out of my mind.

Happy Ethmos to All!

The Reservation Debate - Is there light at the end of the tunnel? - An Ethmos perspective

The tragic suicide of a Hyderabad PhD scholar (no, we will not call him a "Dalit Scholar" as most of the "presstitute" media is calling him, because we don't believe in castism and for us, he was a scholar since the University considered him qualified enough to admit him to the PhD course) has led to the rekindling of the 'Dalit' and 'reservation' debate in the country.  With most of the 'heavy weight' CMs and political party leaders (who have no better work to do in their respective states or constituencies hellbent on giving a political turn and getting mileage out of a poor man's death, the country really seem to be heading in a totally wrong direction.

Since we had never written anything on this topic of reservation (in fact, we have not written anything since the past many days!!) and since we know that Nobody cares to listen to our views, hence it becomes our duty to at least tell Nobody regarding our views.  So, here goes:-

Why was reservation given??

The reason was very simple.  What our founding fathers of the constitution thought was that since the caste system was very deeply entrenched in the minds of our general junta and they were not ready to mingle with people whom they thought to be of "lower castes", it would be better if the government takes things in its own hands.  The government decided to "positively discriminate" some castes in our society so that they can be given jobs in government/public sector by giving relaxations in the selection criteria.  In this way, there will start a homogeneous population of all castes in the public sector organizations and thus removing the misconceptions regarding "upper and lower" in the minds of the people over a period of time.  This time limit was initially fixed to be 10 years.

After 10 years, when the netas realized that reservation was an excellent tool to garner votes by bringing more and more people under the reservation net and giving them laddoos of easy government jobs (while they all knew that increasing the reservation was neither going to increase the vacancies in the government jobs nor going to reduce the competition in a significant way).  They continued this system as such and this system is being followed till now.  Neither the system nor the modus operandi of hoodwinking the poor population in the name of "reservation" has changed.  Now more and more castes/tribes/sub-castes, etc. are coming forward and want to get the status of 'backward' so as to get 'better representation' in the public sector space since they feel that if the person sitting on the sarkaari chair belongs to his/her 'own caste' he may favour him/her. The recent Paatidar agitation in Gujarat is a glaring example of the same.

So what is the problem with the present system?

The straight verbatim answer is:-  The majority of the people who are presently benefiting from the system are those who have already once taken the benefit of reservation and are very well off due to that.  For example, a person who has become an civil servant or any officer in any PSU in the 1970s or 1980s will be a financially well off man today and very well be living in a group A metro city with his children getting some of the best educational facilities.  But still the same convent-educated children get the benefit of reservation when they appear for competitive exams thus taking away the rightful dues of the really backward, poor, and the downtrodden castes, many of whom are not even educated enough to know that government is offering them incentives to study and get on their feet.

What is the way out then?

The way out is pretty simple but not easy at all since the netas will never let anybody (even plain simple logic) to take over their vote banks since in our country people don't caste their vote but vote their caste.  But then we are famous for finding a "practical path".  We propose the following:-

1.  Reservations should be continued definitely because there still lies various anomalies in our society and the wealth and economic distribution of our society is not at all homogeneous or equitable.  The spectrum of economic condition in our country span from a person earning 1 million rupees a day to just 1 rupee a day.  The reservation has become a necessity for the latter person - whether anybody likes it or not.  But for this to happen, reservation should be invariably given on the basis of economic condition of the family rather than on caste specifications.

2.  Reservation should be made a "one reservation per family" concept.  That is to say that if a person who has taken the benefit of reservation and has become an IAS, bank officer, doctor, engineer and is doing financially well, then their children should not be given the benefit of reservation since they are educated enough to know their rights and have grown economically and financially.

3.  Ghettos of societies to be dismantled by removing caste/religion-specific institutions.  The origin of discrimination lies in the minds of the people.  Why should be reinforce the same by creating institutions which are caste/religion-specific?  For example, there are many castes/creeds/religions that go for creating educational and charitable institutions throughout the country for the "upliftment" of their own castes.  Although it is argued and it is there in our constitution also that people are free to propagate their castes/religions, etc., what such kind of structuralism does is to create a barrier in the minds of the "other" people regarding that particular caste/religion.  Any institution formed in Bharat should be for the Bharatiya junta as a whole and not for any particular section of the society.  However, reservation should be given in order to generate a homogeneous profile within the institution and to prevent groupism by particular sections which may form a majority.

4.  Recruitment can be conducted based on the grounds of proportionate representation for all sections of the society.  This is another area where the government needs to bring a paradigm shift in the policy.  Rather than giving blanket reservation, why not give proportionate representation to all sections of a society in a particular geographic area while conducting the recruitment.  Say for example, there are six castes/sections in any state, say A, B, C, D, E, and F.  And say their respective populations are A - 60%, B-20%, and C, D, E, and F each 5%.  Then the vacancies can also be distributed in the same proportion so that any government department will mirror the actual population density of that area and their will be equal and proportional distribution of opportunities for all sections of the society.  But then the problem with our Bharatiya netas is that as soon as this policy is brought forth, they will further divide the sections into sub-sections and further sub-sub-sections so as to divide and rule.  They will then ask for separate reservation for that particular sub-section and the cycle will continue.  And that brings us back to point no. 1!

Hence, we have tried to analyze and provide an amicable solution to this reservation conundrum because right now, whether anybody wishes to acknowledge or not, the country is boiling from within.  There is a lot of discontentment among the masses regarding these policies which have brought further division of our society through vote bank politics rather than actual upliftment of the people and social integration.  Something needs to be done urgently to prevent such kind of incidents in the future - and just as our PM told, it is a son who has been lost rather than a person belonging to any particular community.  This should never happen again.

Happy Ethmos to all!