Women’s Quota Bill…. why?
Posted on March 9, 2010
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Yesterday the Congress led UPA government of India, presented the much awaited women ’s reservation bill to reserve the 33 percent seats in parliament for women. Many political parties, which actually does not have a vision or leadership, have already opposed the bill in present format. What format they want no one knows?
While it is shameful that we have such vision less persons in our parliament, I am thinking – do we actually need reservations in a democracy? Democracy is by the people for the people, then, if people want to send women leaders in parliament then women will be there. And if they do not then, what else you can do. I can not understand the need of forcing everyone for one specific decision. Reservation of any kind – be it reservation in education, jobs OR parliament, it should be opposed.
If we want the poor and deprived should participate in, what we call, main stream then we should try to educate them and empower them. If we want women in the parliament then let them prove themselves as good leader. After all in the end, we need good leaders in parliament, how does it matter if one is he OR she.
Making a law to reserve 50% seats for backwards and SC/ST could be a short term solution but then it is equally harmful for the development of the country. Can you believe on a doctor who has got his/her MBBS from quota. A student who can not get even 10-20% marks in the examination, how could you believe him to treat life threatening diseases. Is being from a SC/ST category, enough to save life of a dying person? NO.
The engineer who does not even have enough marks to clear the entrance test, would be able to design bridges that last for centuries. NO.
We can bring up one person by reservation, but then what about millions of others waiting for their turn.
Reservation in its concept is a bad thing, it makes people less competitive. Which results in less qualified and useless people to reach the places, where even toppers are not allowed. It is bad for everyone.
The SC/ST people who know that they will get a job even if they does not get enough marks, they will stop getting proper education.
If a person knows that government will reserve a seat for them, without looking at their eligibility then why would he try to be eligible.
If a person knows that no one can dismiss him from his job because he is an SC/ST then why would he work.
Humans are lazy by nature. They work only when they have fear to lose something.
Reservation of any kind should be avoided, irrespective of the criteria. Even if some one is poor then provide him money. And leave it on him to utilize that to succeed or spoil. If some category of persons are deprived of good schools, then provide them good schools, leave it on them to study and get enough marks to succeed.
Then only we will be able to create a generation, which will be able to reach new horizons, have presence of every cast and religion and which can take India to new heights.
Can you believe that Mayawati has no funds???
Posted on March 6, 2010
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Yesterday came the news that around 60 odd people died in a temple stampede at Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. The ashram is blaming on God, what else we can expect such irresponsible persons, who use people to make their lives and then do not care about their deaths.
But what came as a bigger surprise – when state government i.e. Mayawati government announced that they do not have funds for helping the victims. I was just shocked… and many of you also must have. The chief minister who invested thousands of crores in building mettle statues, stone parks in Lucknow and Noida, does not have 1-2 crores for helping people who actually need help.
The same government is planning to have a dedicated police force to protect those parks and statues which will again demand hundreds of crores. For that she has no shortage of funds and for people who are deeply hurt and are in trouble, she is openly releasing press statements that the government has no funds.
It is just the bad luck of the people in UP, who selected such a party and leader as their chief minister. Shame on her…
Review: My Name is Khan
Posted on February 23, 2010
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I am among the little late watchers of the movie – “My Name is Khan“. Yes, now some of the theaters are finding it hard to get audience to run the show. I went in the SRS Cinemas, Wedding Mall, Sohna Road, Gurgaon. It was Monday afternoon show and you would not believe there were almost 12 people sitting in the theater including children.
The movie is good and very engaging but what it lacks is the Entertainment value. It sticks to its line so strictly that a common audience may find it difficult to enjoy. I think it was filmed keeping in mind the western audiences – from where it picked up its subject. The subject itself is very noble and asks everyone to think about the boundaries that we have created ourselves between humans. The boundary of religion.
As the lead character Rizwan Khan (played by Shahrukh Khan), keeps saying that – “There are only two kind of people in this world. Either Good or Bad. There is no other difference between two people.”
The subject also has a balance while taking sides of specific group. While it blames western countries for treating each Muslim as terrorist, it also shows the – religious Muslims leaders, who motivate them to fight in the name of god, which eventually creates more hatred for them. On one hand it shows the Christians only relief program for drought hit Africa, and on the other hand it shows Muslim religious leaders misinterpreting the holy Kuran to mislead the Muslim youth in the name of “Allah”.
If we leave that core of the story aside – then we have the character of Rizwan, which has a rare disease known as “Autism“, behaves like a child and Shahrukh Khan leaves no stone unturned to make you believe that yes he is the Rizwan Khan, not the super star SRK, as we all know him. Rizwan lives by the teaching of his mother and is an honest, innocent, sincere, lovable and very intelligent.
When FBI agents were investigating Rizwan for his suspected links with terrorists – Osama in specific. He writes to his wife that – “They (FBI) are asking me to tell them about Osama and are angry with me as I do not know anything about him. If I would have imagined that they would ask about Osama then I should have read about him.”
And I can not forget about Kajol, I am her great admirer and I believe that she is the best actress at present in Hindi film industry. While today’s actresses are busy in making their body, looking beautiful and sexy. They should also try to do some acting. Kajol makes a mark in every scene she is in, when ever Kajol is there on screen the screen gets energized.
While watching the movie, if you would not know that this is directed by Karan Johar, you would never believe that it is a Karan Johar movie. He has come a long way since “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai”. It is the first time that Karan has made a movie without drama, plush sets, loud Punjabi music and colorful dresses. I felt too good to get a different movie from a great director we have.
I wish if every person in this world becomes like Rizwan, we will have a much better world as we have now.
Do we really need education reforms?
Posted on February 20, 2010
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The recent Aamir Khan movie 3 Idiots, was said to have created new awareness about the mental pressure we are putting on our students. Which sometimes make them to commit even suicide. The movie advocates that we should reform our education system to give more independence to students, so that they can try reaching new horizons. But is our education system really that bad? OR the issues has something to do with us (the parents) also.
When we hear the news of suicides by students – when they fear failure in exams – then it is not the exam results, but the parents who are responsible for that. The parents put a lot of pressure on their kids that if you do not perform then you will be no one; and this pressure starts from pre-nursery classes.
Why this pressure is there? Because everyone of us wants to see our kids in either IIMs, IITs or Medical Colleges. It is us who do not accept if our child says that he wants to learn music OR play football, cricket or want to do his own business.
The education system may need some reforms with time, but it’s responsibility in student suicides is much less compared to parents expectations.
When blaming our educational institutions we should not forgot that it is this system, which has produced world’s largest number of Doctors, Engineers and Computer professionals.
But then we say that why we do not have inventors or great entrepreneurs. That is because we are too young country for that. We have just got independence 60 years back and we are still finding it hard to put a good system in place [thanks to our vision less leadership].
New inventions come to mind when we have time to think besides our daily needs. The life of an Indian middle class person exhausts in working hard to earn enough money for their survival. When do they get chance to think about innovation? Because if they do then they will have nothing to eat in the evening.
The largest number of our population are farmers and you must have heard news of their suicides every other day.
And we are comparing ourselves with world’s most developed and rich nations. Who have enough money and hence time to try for new innovations and they do not do suicide if that experiment goes bad. They just start another one.
We can not even dream of earning million dollars in our whole life and they spend millions of dollars to develop an idea without worrying whether it will work or not.
This is the difference which prevents us to think out of the box. This is why we tend to follow set paths which gives us at least some confidence that we will be able to earn a good regular income if we do this.
So the time will come when we will also have great innovations and ideas registered with Indian names, but we have to wait for that. We have to wait for right time to come. As they popularly say – “Rome was not built in a day.”
Where is all the greenery?
Posted on February 16, 2010
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When I first came to Noida, in 2003 and reached there via NH24 expressway and then Akshardham Mandir to Noida link road. What impressed me a lot – is the view of greenery everywhere. There were trees on both sides of the road and in the middle divider also. Before that I was living in Lucknow, and at that time also Lucknow was not so green [ forget about present times - now there is absolutely no trees in Lucknow - thanks to "Maya Raj" ].
Then I shifted to Gurgaon due to my job. Then I rarely visited there. But now again I am looking to shift back to Noida and therefore I have to go there for some preview of the flat for rent. And I was shocked to see the Akshardham to Noida link road. The road which once has hundreds of trees, now has NONE!
I was not able to identify, if I am taking the right turn OR I came to some new place. It took me more than 30 minutes to identify the turns. The road which I traveled two times daily for 3 years – that also just 2-3 years back – I was not able to find right way.
And this all is happening in the name of common wealth games, I think.
But whatsoever is the reason, how did they justify cutting hundreds of trees in the name of development. When metro track passed besides the same road they did not touched even a single tree. You may also have seen metro construction work, they try to save every tree which can be saved. But here they rooted all the trees no matter if that was needed or not.
In todays world when we all talk about Global Warming and green lifestyle. Is this we are going to do? When Mayawati does something then we can understand that she is a crazy woman, but what about others. If every one will be crazy like her then this world will become a hell.