the fury of natural order spurned

It defies logic and all good reason to equate "progressiveness" with choosing 'right by birth' over true individual merit. In their infinite wisdom, the politicos of our nation ('visionary politicians' are a near-extinct species in India) want to use the cart as a plough instead of creating a plough. How in the world can anyone justify a legalised 'eye for an eye' (outside of some of our socially challenged neighbours in the middle east), if the case being made out is that of providing a historically oppressed section of the society a legal claim to an opportunity when it has no linkage to natural right of merit because the 'oppressor' section has had it good so far? Thats like handing the progeny of holocaust survivors a ticket to germany, a gun and a license to kill descendants of members of the Nazi Party of Germany because the latter institutionalized and industrialized the genocide of the former at some point of time in history. Too farfetched a comparison? maybe...surely not a farfetched analogy...

If logic defies us, then at least we can borrow on the foresight of leaders who wrought our constitution. If Ambedkar (and surely few would qualify as better or more deserved champions of social justice), in the chaotic new-gained freedom era, had the wisdom to suggest that 'reservations' are a short cut to social justice and bound to be harmful to the society on the whole in the long run, then surely he had something in mind!

Votebank politicians cannot see that of course. Blinded by a hunger for 'satta' since that is the only way they can redeem their existence having realised a long time ago that 'statemanship' is difficult to spell let alone be attained, these leaders of hyperbole and rhetoric want the easiest way to power which comes by the way of arthimetic majorities of the votebanks. They have even borrowed (original thought does not behove them) the term 'affirmative action' from the US example of voluntary action to social equality for all. If our self-styled social champions had bothered to look closer, they would perhaps understood (that not being a strong point of theirs) that the essence of 'affirmative action' was in disregarding the biases that are generated by class, colour and creed, and most certainly not a free meal ticket for some sections of the society. The pseodu-socialists in Congress, having not gained any wisdom whatsoever in their near-failure pseudo-socialist experiments, now want to try a different way to the doom they had just managed to avoid in the late 80s. Working with the desi Socialists/marxists (could that match have been made in heaven?) they want to create a new caste structure, that of the reserved and the general, caste having worked for the privileged sections in our country for more than five millenia- what could be any better path to power? That it has to come from people who lay claim to socialism and marxism, the movement of 'equal men', is surely the unkindest cut..

Its very simple, the guy (rich or poor, lower, middle or upper caste) who does not find a place for his merit in the natural order of things would move to somewhere he can. Get ready India for the 2nd wave of 'brain drain'.
Our Motto - We love to keep our country poor - in social & economic development and in the quality of people we have lead and build our nation!

an eye for an eye would leave the world blind. do not know about the rest of the world but it would surely blind our nation and that is a just fate for having allowed ourselves to being led by the visionary impaired...