BJP won. I only wish that , India will not witness a modern day concentration camp for another ethnic cleansing .
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Was just wondering what religion can do to people.. Maybe its all about how the thoughts get changed once someone gets religious. Though being religious might slow down the progress visibly, people might still take to religiousness for this sense of pride for being religious! It sometimes seems as though we have come a fulll circle...The new day youth getting back to religiousness under the name of "stress relief", "finding deeper meanings of life"or just for fashion shows a trend of harboring a sense of pride for being primitive! The only way is to give good competition by still feeling stress-free, find deeper meanings to life, be fashionable (;)) and still be progressive and advanced by NOT being religious.
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On a second thought, maybe..just a maaybee...What if everything is not the way we think :) Thats always a possibility, yes. But as I always say, we make decisions based on current understanding and if they are proved wrong tomoro, we shall correct it !
Being open to change is what makes the difference
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I saw this movie Cast Away!! Brought me to tears.. My eyes well up whenever I recollect it :)
The best thing I liked about the movie is the subtle expressions that are captured with the finest of the details and the irony of life which they tell a very powerful way. Made me think about the unknown variables of life, the struggles, the failures and the not-so-happy endings.
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Well... I lament the BJP win, but only because it surely means the end of the Indo-US nuclear deal.. Otherwise, I surely feel its the lesser of the two evils..
Yeah, I agree with ur view on the nuke deal. And about BJP being the lesser evil, I feel they seem that way right now. Once in power, they will play down the secular ideas . Not that currently secularism is on the high, but in that regard BJP will be worse
Frankly, both the Congress and the BJP are guilty of communalism : the minority appeasement by the congress (Manmohan Singh saying Muslims have the first right on national resources) and the mainstream Hindutva politics of the BJP..
But then, on deeper analysis, I personally connect better to the social policies of the right wing party, and for the simple reason that this is a "survival of the fittest" world.. I just don't expect first right over national resources for anyone but the deserving..
If you are trying to say that , the minority doesnt deserve the first right over national resources, because they are not fit enough, that is with a reason right ? They are backward with a reason. That cause has to be attacked so that everyone would be on the same level, sooner or later.
Thus the improvement of the minority should be a focus, even if it means some inconvenience for the forward lot. This would after all be a migration plan.
That being said, improvement of the minority should not be by appeasing them . Such appeasement probably doesn't even have a philosophy of bringing up the minority. It might all be for vote bank!
If you see further, minority bashing is a bigger evil than minority appeasement! Because sooner or later, the honey moon period will get over. Migration plan cannot last for a lifetime. So, if congress is talking about giving reservations because of backwardness of people, it should eventually end after a certain time. So,if short term politics is being played by congress, it wil back fire in a big way in the longer run to a stage where they cant even make a decent entry :)
Well, you have a point, albeit an idealist one.. Remember, this is India, and reservations, once made, are as good as for ever.. Sixty years, multiple generations of same families have reaped benefits of the SC/ST reservations, and their is no sign of the reservation being withdrawn, or the offsrpings of the beneficiaries being made ineligible..
And the most important point : A historic wrong against a particular section of the society will not be corrected by another wrong social move.. Two wrongs just dont make a right, come what may..
And why are the Muslims backward.. There has to be a good reason for that.. I can give you loads of examples where communities have transformed themselves in less than 3 decades.. Look at Punjabis.. After partition, they suffered the worst, their homeland got divided, but due to their own sheer hard-wrok, they are one of the most prosperous communities today.. And when did you last see a Sikh beggar.. This is what I am pointing at.. No quota, no "appeasement" can work if the community doesn't have the will..
Its not that there has been no sign of improvement at all. People from the backward sections (including muslims) have risen to good positions in these many years. Though, the improvement is probably not proportional to the amount of reservations that were given.
Now even this is because of a reason. Why would a community "choose" to remain backward? Is it really that comfortable and glossy ? I dont think a community as such, has "chosen" to remain backward. It is a condition which they have gotten into because of the overal social and cultural conditions of the nation.
In a country where, people internally (and secretly)think that the place belongs to hindus and all others dont belong here, the minorities always live with a sense of insecurity. This makes them more religious and closed. Their interactions suffer because of all such thoughts. Because of which their growth is either very slow or absent.
Due to the fact that they are more backward, they should be given more facilities so that they can improve :)
I do agree that there has to be good thought that has to go on about how long the reservations should exist, whether the offsprings of beneficiaries should still be given reservations etc. but philosophically reservations (or any proactive form of affirmative action) is necessary to remove the backwardness.
About the point on "correcting a historic mistake with another socially wrong move", I guess we need to understand if the move is really a socially wrong one. What if it is part of an affirmative action to level up everyone in the society so that the country can progress faster? What if it is part of a long term goal to achieve an equal, reservation-free society? Is it still socially wrong ? :)
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