I am an Indian youth and I am sad today! I have chosen not to be a
solution to an existing problem, instead I have created a new problem for others to deal with. I chose to make mockery of the system
and I am successful in doing so.
Just think about a scenario in which Hardik Patel who is demanding reservation for Patels is able to get it.
Mr. Hardik Patel, please tell us your basis of merit, tell us how would this solve problem in the long run? How this burst of leadership comes around you all of a sudden? How do you emerge as a charismatic leader able to pull such large crowdswhich no one has seen before? How do you figure out that you are not begging but demanding your rights?
For a long time now, the request for reservation seemed to come from politicians (who were playing their vote game), so called people who were less literate or from some socially backward group who thought that it was a solution for their upliftment. And I used to criticize it at every possible opportunity I got, be it discussion among friends or social media like Facebook, Twitter or comment section on some news sites. I used to have a view that reservation is no good for anybody, it does bad more than it does any good. I used to say "Abolish it altogether". I don't know what happened to that thought process?
It has not been very long when I used to discuss with my friends how reservation was bad for all of us, and it should be abolished. We discussed we don't need reservation rather we need a better mindset. And it is shameful that I am demanding reservation today; more so when I struggled to even pass my qualifying exams, or when I could not be a person of merit. I realize merit isn't for me, rather reservation is!
It seems like gone is the time when things which pissed me off were politicians, religions, bad infrastructure, slow economy, lame policies, arrogant rich people, cricketers or celebrities. I had high hopes from my generation - I believed we will bring the change! But thanks to Mr. Patel that I can now look forward to fellow youth for failing me as well. I am still 2 generations behind when it comes to a progressive mindset; and I have pushed back all so called "changing time" by another 30 good years.
I do not know if there is some political party behind all this, or if someone is saying Patels can have reservation in the state of Bihar (how ironic that sounds though!). I see it all as a successful attempt to create a national unrest, where motives of few encompass well being of all. We are again divided, we are always held back by this contaminating mindset. We are ready to be inducing violence, don't we realize loss of life and property?
All this when Patels have been making a mark for themselves globally, when Dr. Patel is a trusted doctors, Mr. Patel is an established businessmen and they are part of creating a mini India outside of India. All this while a few people are dying, property is being damaged and burnt and it is impacting lives of many; does future of my country seem to be in good hands?
I am ashamed, I am sad and I want to tell you I am (not) a Patel and I don't need reservation.
Related:
It is actually not based on merit: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hardik-Patel-passed-BCom-exam-with-grace-marks/articleshow/48703908.cms
Just think about a scenario in which Hardik Patel who is demanding reservation for Patels is able to get it.
- Do you think that he would end up doing some menial job which he gets from this reservation?
- Or do you think he would be contesting election next season when some political party which is prying for him offers a ticket?
Mr. Hardik Patel, please tell us your basis of merit, tell us how would this solve problem in the long run? How this burst of leadership comes around you all of a sudden? How do you emerge as a charismatic leader able to pull such large crowdswhich no one has seen before? How do you figure out that you are not begging but demanding your rights?
For a long time now, the request for reservation seemed to come from politicians (who were playing their vote game), so called people who were less literate or from some socially backward group who thought that it was a solution for their upliftment. And I used to criticize it at every possible opportunity I got, be it discussion among friends or social media like Facebook, Twitter or comment section on some news sites. I used to have a view that reservation is no good for anybody, it does bad more than it does any good. I used to say "Abolish it altogether". I don't know what happened to that thought process?
It has not been very long when I used to discuss with my friends how reservation was bad for all of us, and it should be abolished. We discussed we don't need reservation rather we need a better mindset. And it is shameful that I am demanding reservation today; more so when I struggled to even pass my qualifying exams, or when I could not be a person of merit. I realize merit isn't for me, rather reservation is!
It seems like gone is the time when things which pissed me off were politicians, religions, bad infrastructure, slow economy, lame policies, arrogant rich people, cricketers or celebrities. I had high hopes from my generation - I believed we will bring the change! But thanks to Mr. Patel that I can now look forward to fellow youth for failing me as well. I am still 2 generations behind when it comes to a progressive mindset; and I have pushed back all so called "changing time" by another 30 good years.
I do not know if there is some political party behind all this, or if someone is saying Patels can have reservation in the state of Bihar (how ironic that sounds though!). I see it all as a successful attempt to create a national unrest, where motives of few encompass well being of all. We are again divided, we are always held back by this contaminating mindset. We are ready to be inducing violence, don't we realize loss of life and property?
All this when Patels have been making a mark for themselves globally, when Dr. Patel is a trusted doctors, Mr. Patel is an established businessmen and they are part of creating a mini India outside of India. All this while a few people are dying, property is being damaged and burnt and it is impacting lives of many; does future of my country seem to be in good hands?
I am ashamed, I am sad and I want to tell you I am (not) a Patel and I don't need reservation.
Related:
It is actually not based on merit: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hardik-Patel-passed-BCom-exam-with-grace-marks/articleshow/48703908.cms
