sesh,
welcome to the club.
you have posed a very relevant, open ended question, the likes of which has been discussed rather obliquely here and elsewhere ie wherever and whenever tamil brahmins congregate.
i think, it may be advantageous to set some ground rules?
please may i take a stab at this?
- for the sake of focus and simplicity maybe we should confine the focus to tamil brahmins and their well wishers (ie kerala pattars and such who have settled in tamil nadu and very much adapted here, which is indeed the land of their grand grand grand parents)
- very important we include well wishers of our community, for God Knows, we need more of such than ever before !!
- we should specifically exclude brahmins from the north of the vindhyas in our domain of interests - not because i have anything against them. just that their history and experiences and status in their respective communities are much much different from ours in tamil nadu
- we should keep this to achieiving political goals for the uplift of the soft underbelly of our community. our leadership needs to study the works of chanakya or macchiavelli, to understand how to wade in the deep cesspool waters of our politics and come out clean ie in short be adroit in the dark arts while maintaining what is termed as the 'teflon effect' !
- there should be no dipping of religious or religious coated stuff. for in this we are as different as there are number of stars in the sky
- no mention of mutts and right wing organizations, which are mushrooming so quickly, that i will run out of space, if i should start naming them
- the conduct of this organization should be such, that no matter who occupies the CM gaddi, we pay our respects, are heard, and our interests are taken care. our tamil christian and muslim brethren have mastered this strategy such that no matter who rules fort st. george, THEIR interests are heeded.
- this requires a radical change in tamil brahmin mindset, i feel, in their inherent anathema to dravidian politics
- we should also take into consideration, while we are inconvenienced by quotas in educational, it should be expected that quotas will remain in the political spectrum during our lifetime.
- to have a realistic chance of success, i think, we should focus more on extending quotas to the poorer members of our community, with the clarion call that 'the mind is a terrible thing to waste'
- we need a discussion here to identify what else do we really seek from the tamil nadu government - taking into account that by and large we are a middle to upper class community, with almost 100% education and blessed with a sense of (nowadays) entrepreneurship and (definitely) mobility
- the leadership should take great care not to hit those dead snakes over and over again & take great care to conduct their behaviour in such a manner that egos are swallowed, and perhaps paying obeisance to whomsoever is the elected leader, irrespective of their political adherence
- we should shun high profile polarized figures like cho, hindu ram or swamy as these tend to be individual 'heros' whose stand may be detrimental to the common cause
- the caveat, i feel, taking into account, our penchance for arguement, logic, rhetoric and above all himalayan sized egos, i am somewhat forlorn at the thought that this type of a progress and community oriented organization has as much chance of conception, let alone gestation as a zebra mating with an ant.
sesh, i pen this with no malice.
these are just a few random thoughts, that were always floating over me, like summer clouds, all brought together, by a gust of refreshing wind that is your open ended query.
thank you.
over to you.
