Monday, April 23, 2007

You want to play a game: Frame the rules first

I am happy today, my mom guessed that when i called her. She did not even ask me "how are you", the 1st line was "i am sure you are very happy today" Supreme Court of India has ruled out the possibility of any back door entry for the so called OBC's of India into any of the Govt Run institutions in the country. And in statement which i had always expected it said "And finally, when the Centre said that this 27 per cent was additional seats which had been created so that no inconvenience should be caused to the General Category, then the SC said that these 27 per cent extra seats were created by the revenue generated by all the citizens of the country. Under Article 29, all the citizens have a right to this investment". Sometimes i think, it is the supreme court which has done it right, but if you go into the details, it is the people who filed the Writ petition against this government which wants to play vote bank politics.

Both the ruling coalition and the public have a lot to learn from this. First the public especially the people who dont vote but comment about the policies of the govt need to stop lamenting about govt policies, but instead they need to be pro active, vote and challenge the govt if they are not happy with it. The group headed by youth for equality did this and they got justice, and in fact once the movement started it found wide support.

I dont know if the centre is going to learn anything from this episode, start thinking beyond votes, think about the country. Put more money in primary education, let there be kendriya vidhyalayas (free govt run quality schools) everywhere. I am not sure how many kendriya vidhyalaya's there are now, but increase there number by 10 times. Acheive 100% literacy and then there is no need for any form of reservation.

I hope all this effort is just a step in the right direction as the Gita Says the following

" Vijay Anthim Lakshya Nahi hai, Anthim Lakshya hai Ek Swasth Naveen Ujwal Samaj ki Stapana aur Yahi Dharm hai. Dharm ke haath pakad kar us charam seema ki aur bado, wahan tak pounchna mahatva poorn nahi hai, mahatva hai yaatra ki disha, yadi disha teke, to koi na koi pedi us charam seema tak avashya pounch hi jayegi".

When Translated it reads " Victory is not the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is to lay the foundation for a healthy, new and progressive society and this is the right way of life. Follow this way of life and head towards that goal, reaching there is not important, what is important is the direction in which you head there, if the direction is right, some generation would definitely reach the goal".

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