Please sir,first you should see how an FC Non TB can easily purchase a community certificate from his VAO.
Only constraints are a brahmin cant do it and OBC cant manage a SC certificate.
I dont mind reservations for the SC/ST and to an extent to the Vanniars/Maravars/few otehrs.
But this BC quota is just shameless,daylight robbery.
dear SN,
i understand empathize and feel your anguish. personally, had i been in india, i would have a tough time, selling the concept of reservation to my children, as they themselves would claim that they had done nothing wrong.
i also agree with you, that even close after 100 years periyar's words sting, and sting hard to hurt. one can only imagine what caused a fervent religious congressman that was e.v.ramasamy to go to the role of atheistic anti brahmin periyar. having seen some attitudes of my parents' generation, i am not all that surprised. nothing happens without a reason.
today's tambrams are definitely of a different mental disposition than our grand parents, attitudes wise. atleast most of us, and even the most traditional, would not prevent his daughter from education, would probably have a small family and above all, believe in mobility in search of career. which was not so 100 years ago.
passing on, re dr kandasamy, i think, it should be dealt on its own merit. i graduated from iit madras 68-73 and even now i feel nepotism and casteism ruled the selection of staff. the institute had a majority of teaching assistants imported from two andhra universities, just because the dept heads came from there. these could hardly speak english but even worse, had no understanding of the concepts that they were supposed to teach.
iit madras, i feel, was always an oasis of exclusivity though located in tamil nadu chennai. clearly the socio economic political reallities of today, we need to feel breathe practice and above all believe in inclusivity, with an absolute sense of fairness, which includes righting many a historical wrong.
agreed, that many of the efforts are flawed today, and agreed, that there are holes in the system which prevent an honest implementation. but that is india and that is what we have to live with.
as stated earlier, in any social revolution, there are winners and losers. in most instances losers have lost their lives or livelihood or been exiled. thankfully most of tambrams have prospered past 40 years of dravidian revolution, thanks mostly to their ingenuity and the normal human process of bringing out the best in humans, when forced against the wall.
furthermore, as you can see currently, across the board , we see graduates doctors IT professionals from tamil nadu, across all castes including the dalits. till the 1970s, by default a professional madrasi outside of the state, was by default a brahmin. it may sound great for the brahmins, but does not speak well of that society, when so much of anything is concentrated on 3 % or less of the population, whatever the reason may be.
social corrections have happened, and in a way, it has freed our community from dependence on the government and led us to new frontiers, where we have reached a financial status, never before achieved in our history. today's issues are more a result of that prosperity, which in turn has produced new challenges, more in line, with other prosperous communities.
many a times, what has been good for a community, may not exactly be likewise for the country. in such instances, the larger interests of the country and the bigger society prevails. it is the right thing to happen, and history has a habit, of periodically correcting itself.
let us continue to move on. peace. and thank you.
