die...caste

Caste system in modern India has divided the nation into different communities with different perceptions and the most divisive factor. While the majority adheres to Hinduism as their faith, caste divides them for wrong reasons often.We have to have a re look at the failed social engineering experiment of reservations, since even after 50 years the number of people under privileged and disadvantaged keeps growing only due to faulty delivery mechanisms.There is a theory that the caste system has denied equality to many and gave opportunities to a few. Caste system has been perceived as being practiced by the front line castes to the disadvantage of the other communities. It is also said that caste system led to the oppression of disadvantaged caste groups. But the matter of fact is that India was ruled prior to independence for hundreds of years by the Muslim and British rulers who invaded the nation and governed the destinies.Caste system has led to reservations of every kind among the citizens. The focus is not on helping the less privileged or under privileged to compete with the so called forward castes. The political system only perpetuated the continuance of the caste system and succeeded in creating vote banks on the strength of which rulers are elected. It is agreed by one and all that equal opportunities be given to all its citizens irrespective of caste, creed, race and religion. Those people who used the benefits of reservation continue to enjoy the reservation facilities for their progeny though they are no longer under privileged or under developed. The creamy layer that benefited the most from the caste reservation system continues to claim the rights and privileges that are no longer needed by them. They appear to be expressing their loyalty to the caste from which they came and benefited, and there by attracting other still to be befitted people to flock round them only to benefit the already privileged among those oppressed castes.If we have to stop this divide within this great nation, the only way is to categorize people as haves and have nots and make economic condition as the sole criteria for judging whether a particular person is privileged or under privileged. All the financially backward people must be treated equally and benefits be made available to them so that they equip themselves to compete with the haves in the society.It must start with education system. Income be made the sole criteria and seats for the underprivileged or back ward classes and children of such parents must be given choice to admit their child in any school or college of their choice and the government should reimburse the entire expenses for education to the economically dis advantaged families. Those rich and powerful, to which ever caste they may belong to must be asked to pay for the education on their own.This ensures that quality education is made available to deserving children without financial burden for those families that can hardly afford quality education. This financial backing must continue for the economically under privileged classes till they get a reasonable job with good salary.Then such family must be removed from the list of beneficiaries irrespective of caste affiliations so that the benefits will go to deserving candidates. Caring for education must include health care of children, their dress requirement and their food expenses. Quality must be the watch word and the delivery system must be made accountable with prominent citizens playing watch dog role. If this is done there will be no need for reservation in jobs as equal opportunities arise for all based on competence and merit. This will eradicate the inequities and social engineering will give way to economic well being. This is the bounden duty of a welfare state.When such generation joins main stream with a feeling that they are not disadvantaged on the basis of caste, the vote bank politics will vanish and the merit and talent will find their rightful place.Such drastic re look only will help Indian democracy qualify as not only the largest democracy but also best quality democracy. Otherwise it will be mobocracy, castocracy and divisive and harmful to the nation and its citizens.If we are unable to judge what is good for us and ensure governance that is responsive, responsible, and continue to dabble in caste vote banks, one day it may lead to social upheavals since the delivery mechanism for helping the under privileged and oppressed sections is so faulty that the number keeps growing despite billions and billions are spent for that cause.What the underprivileged want is eradication of hurdles that continue to create inequities mainly on account of economic reasons.Why to add cream to cream? It is better to identify constantly and transparently those who really need cream to sweeten their fortunes.Till India finds real solution to the caste problem and take steps for eradicating caste factor from politics, India will continue to be a divided house where the energies of the nation are wasted without real gain for the people at large.

statements and sayings

my computer's damaged and that is the reason for a long gap..i have written articles and will publish them as soon as possible.till then enjoy some quotations unheard

-"There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any hear would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart,

- Loves are like that. You heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and independence. After a while, you started throwing people out - your friends and everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls. That's why I'm sick of Love.

- Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

- Every day, when you are on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

- If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you don't get the joke.

- Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

- It’s a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.

- One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

- Lovers find their way by insights and confidences; they are the stars they use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

- There’s no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.

- The sane man is simply a better liar than an insane man.

- Fate’s way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

- The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds and there are bad deeds. Men are just men —it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good or evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone —the noblest of man alive or the most wicked— has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.

- Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade;but its worry that keeps the knife sharp, and worry that gets most of us, in the end.

- If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.

- Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

- It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was till free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when its all you have got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving,can become the story of your life.

- I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and its a sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.

- The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

- One of the reasons why we crave love, & seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, & shame, & sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

- Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that's all there is. Love & its duty, sorrow & its truth. In the end that's all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.

- The difference between news and gossip-News tells you what people did, gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

- At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread instead is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone.

- A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

- Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it’s the other way around.

- Happiness is a myth, which was invented to make us buy things.

- The lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight.

- We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

- A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

- Anything that can be put in a nutshell should remain there.

- Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

- The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. Sometimes we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts with such acuity, that every stitch of time reveals its purpose, and the kind of message enfolded in it.

- There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

- Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.

- Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.

- You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return”

- Being in love we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way its said”

- "Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are."

- Truth is bully we all pretend to like.

- “We all strive to do one good thing to balance all the wrong that we have done in the past”

- There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

- Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win

- "Silence is the tortured mans revenge."

-optimism is the first cousin of love- it is exactly like love, it is pushy, has no real sense of humour, n it turns up when u least expect it.

-real trick in life is to want nothing, n to succeed in getting it.

-People always hurt us with their trust. The surest way to hurt someone you like is to put all your trust in him.”

the young and the restless

recently my mom completed her 25 years in the bank.she was awarded memento on the annual day of the bank.it surely was a happy moment for everyone in the family.but this also brought about another feeling in my mind.my mom had just one job,just one bank in her entire lifetime.but now-a-days the young working class changes jobs faster than the time between equinoxes,seeing this scenario ,i guess,the 25 year mark in a company will be substituted by a 5 year mark.complete 5 years in one place and dude,you are eligible for honor.but what has changed in these years.why has the youth changed so much?why does the ignited mind be the rolling stone throughout the life?is the chance of growth less?maybe,but is the job all about money?the office used to be the second home.we have friends,mentors,our space,memories and anecdotes embedded in that very job.then how does the youth break all this?is the bonding among people all lost or have people become insensitive ?me ,being a youth,can assure you that human bonding is still deeply embedded in our hearts and we still can go beyond all degrees for someone close to our heart.then why is this thing occuring?
after some retrospection i managed to stumble about a few things which can lead to this reason.now-a-days jobs are all about high rise and high stakes.almost every job which pays you amazing salaries is mostly an multinational company.all the jobs which the employees work on are outsourced.so basically these "nighthawks"(this is what the people in u.s.a. call their employees in India as we work when its night there).the nighthawks do not know whom do they work for.they don't even know their own bosses.plus looking at the enormous stream of people being recruited in this industry especially the IT industry,personnels are available in plenty.co-workers are changed every month or so,to increase efficiency.a person working in such a company has very little contact with anyone.all he has is colleagues but no friends.earlier ,people used to bring lunch boxes ,share stories along with each others meals.these things just evaporated by this IT and coffee culture.the work which we do today lacks human touch.the corporation do not have any respect for your emotions or feelings.they want you as long as you can do the job.the minute you are inefficient,there are several ready to occupy your place.you don't have a friendly chat with your clients or your boss as you don't know any of them.so the only thing you are working for is money.without humanity there is no life.this is precisely what the people in the IT industry feel.they get high salary and lucrative offers but hardly anyone is satisfied with their job.this is why people are changing jobs at the speed of sonic boom.no creative satisfaction,no job satisfaction and no fun,just work and work.and you are getting paid for it.but is that 5 figure salary enough a repayment for everything that you have lost?
this lack of human touch is a prime cause of sadness among the working cause.but we also see the young generation which is studying,depressed.i rarely find a student who is happy from the inside.the time we pass our 10th exam and start our so called career deciding ascent,depression and bouts of sadness are seen cropping up among students.the amount of students smoking and drinking have increased enormously due to these very reason.but why are we always sad?why is the youth under so much of pressure?the rat race??is the competition this bad?i completely agree to the cut throat contest among the students when everyone is trying to secure the checkered flag,but is this all?look deep inside the heart and you will find a sense of emptiness?why has that feeling arrived?when we were young this hasn't been experienced.this is not due to any rat race.then why is this feeling in my heart?is this because of the same absence of human touch?but then you will argue that we got good friends in college.i agree and i am never stating that my observations are always the truth.they can be very much a big fat lie also.but my friends,didn't you guys notice the growing hypocrisies and double standards increasing day-by-day among the students of today?can you affirm that every friend of ours is a person who will do everything possible for you,whom you can trust with anything and everything ,who will help you in times?if no,then the person is not a friend.then who is it?why are you telling yourself that this person is a friend of yours?i see people faking all the time.students never show or are afraid to show what they really are from inside.everyone wears a mask behind a mask behind a mask...students are good to even their enemies,conveniently stabbing in the back when time arrives.people don't really care about you and will do everything to pull your leg and climb over you to attain success.money,parties,standards and etiquettes are becoming the criteria of friendship.do we really need such people,if you ask me no...but then you will find yourself living the life of a recluse.when everyone is wrong,the right one often is considered wrong or an idiot.a person must have immense mental strength to rise above this ugly system.a few good friends is ,more precious than 100 of friends who praise you and abuse you behind your own back.and to tell you the truth,sadly ,many people of this new generation are in this system.i have seen birthday parties where expensive gifts are being exchanged but there is no emotional bonding in them.its a give and take, i give him something now expecting that he will give me something later.if this give and take doesn't happen then you become and bad friend.the purity of friendship is pruned by politics;and the life in this lifestyle has made the person selfish and hollow.
i just wanna conclude asking you one thing-"how will you be conscious if your soul is ugly and parched?"