It is quite the fashion to decry caste-based matrimonials. To come down on house-owners who want “Only Vegetarians”. To slam Hindu landlords who refuse to let out property to Muslims and Christians. Or to decry business leaders opposed to reservations.
But how do you look at this advertisement of the Pondicherry-based publishing company ‘Navayana’ for an Editor which, while seeking affirmative applications, stipulates that ‘ONLY DALITS NEED APPLY’?
Maybe the publishers are seeking to right a historical wrong. Maybe they are seeking to reverse “thousands of years” of subjugation. Maybe they are giving back as good as they got. Or maybe this is just a fashion statement.
But, for all the ranting at the meritocracy that corporates practice, for all the whispering about how Dalits are kept out, has anyone ever seen an ad that openly shouts, ‘ONLY BRAHMINS NEED APPLY‘?
Is this reverse-racism, or a shape of things to come?
Check out:
http://thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web21965237210Hoot85824%20PM2111&pn=1
It is a sign of things to come. 100% reservations.
Coz ‘Brahmins need apply’ occurs without any AD’s ( Without being explicit ).
Reservation ah! how come there is no reservations yet in the cricket team… I would love to see a Ezhava player in the national team
The law of diminishing returns applies to every thing…the creation of four varnas had seen its diminishing returns…the proliferation of castes had seen its diminishing returns…and the reservation policy will also see its diminishing returns…
Very soon, once there is 100% reservations, and dearth for brains, things will read – ‘only brahmins/jains/l/m/n/o/p..apply’. Life does come back a full circle. And then, why aren’t these politicians aiming to implement reservations in the armed forces? Why not help them to become entreprenuers? A community no longer influences a person’s destiny in today’s world. Build a habitat where an animal could stand up and fend for itself rather than caging and throwing meat at them day-in and day-out. Having said that, ceratin hand-holding may be required. Provide good and dependable education at the elementary levels and throw open the opportunities. It is cheap politics that people like Arjun Singh, who at the sunset of his political career and has no other ways or base of getting any political support (the former MP Chief Minister cannot even muster the support of one single MLA from his homestate), and many other politicians supporting him, either explicitly or be keeping quiet on the issue. It is very unfortunate that 12th largest economy in the world is still a society clearly demarcted on the lines of caste.
I didnt quite understand but does this mean ” 100% reservations = dearth of brains”- now is that a rascist statement or what?
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