Here’s something that was fowarded to me via email.
I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let’s start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by an OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century.
We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib aktar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal. Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters.
Let’s be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward…
Let’s show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country.
Let’s be proud of being an INDIAN..
May the good breed of politicans like ARJUN SINGH long live…
Tags: General, Indian Politics, Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame, Society & Culture
Great piece. The piece of the runs is fantastic.
This is a good article in Pioneer
‘Reserved’ tag may harm backward class students: Study
Yoga Rangatia | New Delhi
The ‘reserved’ tag for a student from backward class may do his confidence more harm than good. Over-emphasis on his caste makes him less motivated, lowers his self-confidence and he expects societal prejudice to work against him than if the caste remains anonymous, finds a one-of-its-kind sociological experiment in rural Uttar Pradesh.
In an experiment by World Bank researcher Karla Hoff and Pennsylvania State University’s Priyanka Pandey, showed that caste-consciousness sets in early among school children.
Lower caste students perform as well as their upper class peers, if they think the ‘teacher’ and other students do not know their identity. But their performance drops if the teacher announces their caste identity or segregates groups on the basis of their social status.
A group of six boys, three chamar (lower class) and one each Brahmin, Thakur and Vaysha, were asked to solve a puzzle followed by rewards if they got it right. Their identity was not revealed in the classroom. There was no difference in performance between the boys of difference castes.
In the second round, the teacher announced the child’s caste - his name, his village, his father’s name, his grandfather’s name and his caste - and the boy would nod if the information was correct. The result of the experiment was different from the one where caste was unannounced; performance of lower caste students actually dropped by 25 per cent.
The results were alarming in case of the third round where students were segregated on the basis of their caste. The performance of lower caste students went down by 39 per cent in comparison with the first round when caste identities were not known. The students seems least motivated to play the game because they perceived that the teacher had segregated them as ‘outcast’. The experiment was repeated 107 times with 642 children between 11 and 12 years of age studying in rural Uttar Pradesh.
The researchers conclude that one possible explanation for the decline in low-caste performance when caste is announced is that “knowing that the experimenter knows and is concerned with their caste, the low-caste subjects may expect that the promised payments will not be fairly awarded. If they believe- based on the lessons of history, personal experience, and the ongoing reality of village life-that the reward system is biased against the low caste, then the announcement of caste membership could be a cue that causes them to project onto this new situation those existing attitudes.
“The announcement-which may have a stronger effect because it is made before five of one’s peers may call into play the social training of a low-caste individual. Mistrust undermines motivation”.
Another possible explanation for the decline in low-caste performance when caste is announced is that underlining the social identity lowers the self-confidence of the low-caste relative to the high-caste subjects, they felt.
Psychology has shown that associating individual’s social identity with negative stereotype hurts his self-confidence and performance. If the individuals are grouped according to their identity, it implicitly raises the stigma of untouchability, the study concludes.
The experiment throws light on the deep-rooted social conditioning in India’s villages. The best of policies and legal framework have done little to alleviate the historical prejudices. As politicians look to expand their constituencies, they just might be reinforcing entrenched social order by harping on caste quota and reservations.
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Today Indian cricket team is best performing in the world and accomodates even thoes people for whom reservation is being recomended .
These people had no support structure (such as reservation ) but still they have made it to a tough position .
Indian socity is open and free enough to distribute opportunities fairly .
Why do we need birth based category to distinguish ? Is indian government incapable to create income based category that shall fullfill the purpose of social welfare.
I don’t see arjun singh living for more than five years ( given the general mortality rate )?
What if he happens to born in a so called upper class family ??
Shall he be burning the puupet of his own pre- birth ARJUN SINGH.
This son of a swine called Arjun Singh is trying to play divisive politics only to please the “MADAM” in 10 Janpath. Time has come for these opportunistic rascals, who for the sake of few 1000 votes are even willing to sell thier wives and daughters, to be smoked out of thier holes for ever and parmanently.
While everyone is more bothered about the fact that resevation has been hiked in IIT’s and IIM”s-the blue eyed boys and girls of Indian education.. no one is talking of the resevation in Medical colleges I know of my friends who have got 57 rank and ended up in B-grade colleges and people with reservation ending up in the most premier institutions of the country.With 30% seats left in GM(2o% management and 50% reservations) there are many deserving students left in the lurch.And all this is happening right under our noses from this academic year itself.What’s worse is that the seats left vacant in the reseved category are being “sold” under the management quota by unscrupulous college authorities.
As though the insults already heaped on the doctors were not enough foreign doctors are called to check on ailing or dying politicians.Why can’t they go to doctor from a reserved category?
may 8th,2006 at 9:20
let me throw some light on indias past.many years ago as i read in books ,people were divided into classes or groups or castes acccording to the work they do,or the sevice they perform.but it was higher class society(upper castes who later changed the story.They emphasised —a successor to a brahmin wud be a brahmin ,a successor to a kshatriya wud be a kshatriya and so on.the lower castes people have been suffering since then.the general castes r themselves responsible for the present situation that is being faced by them.
also remember
“chawal ke saath ghun bhi pista hai”
Its not right to say what you have said here… i am totaly pro reservation… if people can pay hard cash and get into a college… then there is nothing wrong in reservation of people who have been exploited for years… the higher class are a minority in India…. yet they hold all the important positions… btw i am from general class. its sad that some people just dont see beyond themselfs.
HA HA !! Kudos to your wonderful piece of creativity, I had a hell of a time controlling my laughter. By the way I would certainly like to ask - “What was our medals tally in Olympics?”.
Over 250 million upper caste people reside in this country, and assuming that they hitting sixes and fours is their forte, how many medals did they fetch ?
Now our so called “superiour” castes sitting in the higher echelons… cribble for inclusion of Kabbadi( no doubt it will be gulli danda in the near future) into international tournaments to divert our attention from their “illustrious” achievements.
Its worth asking if these so called “choosen ones” could ever bring the moment of glory in any international meet. Well how about if they are just made to run 50 meters of the allocated 100 meters race….
Wake up people !! learn to respect these underpriviledged minorities, dalits, adivasis and other backward communities basic right to ‘freedom, equality and liberty’. STOP ridiculing, abusing and spitting fire on them and better introspect and try to mend your own ways.
fantastic thank you for completing me my debate
HA HA !! Kudos to your wonderful piece of creativity, I had a hell of a time controlling my laughter. By the way I would certainly like to ask - “What was our medals tally in Olympics?”.
Over 250 million upper caste people reside in this country, and assuming that they hitting sixes and fours is their forte, how many medals did they fetch ?
Now our so called “superiour” castes sitting in the higher echelons… cribble for inclusion of Kabbadi( no doubt it will be gulli danda in the near future) into international tournaments to divert our attention from their “illustrious” achievements.
Its worth asking if these so called “choosen ones” could ever bring the moment of glory in any international meet. Well how about if they are just made to run 50 meters of the allocated 100 meters race….
Wake up people !! learn to respect these underpriviledged minorities, dalits, adivasis and other backward communities basic right to ‘freedom, equality and liberty’. STOP ridiculing, abusing and spitting fire on them and better introspect and try to mend your own ways.