Funny as it may sound, I had a good laugh at the e-mail which George has denounced.
Goorge has not got the right vibrations of the email nor the mental state of the author. It is called frustration. Reservations must be looked upon as a simple way of establishing vote-banks. I have always admired our finance minister Chidambaram. He has been televised as suscribing to resevations in higher educational institutions. And he says that the quality of education cannot and will not suffer. That seats must be increased. How very honourable. At this juncture let me relate the story of some years ago of the Madras IIT. It seems that a parliamentary commission was set up to investigate why more student do not clear the entrance tests in IITs. When this commission members were intervewing the IIT director , and when he was asked the above question, he replied saying that the lower educational institutions should be upgraded to a higher standard if more students must clear the IIT entrance exams. When a member of the commission queried as to why the standard of the IIT entrance tests cannot be lowered so that more students can pass, the director laughed and said it was impossible. Before one could say jack robbins, this member of the commission caught hold of the tie of the director and roughed him up. I fully endorse Kapil Sibal's derision of the reservation policy of Arjun Singh, his own cabinet colleague. At best Arun Singh should be roughed-up like the director of Madras IIT was. The best policy is to do away with reservations. If the fathers of the Indian Constitution had given just 10 years to eradicate castes in the country, what went wrong??? Not the Vote-Banking system?? Today's interview on NDTV of the Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Desmukh by Karan Thapar of BBCs Hardtalk fame was devastating for Desmukh. He was made a laughing stalk on the Vidharba farmer's suicide deaths and Thane district's child malnutrition deaths. There was no holding back for Karan here. It was a real roughing up that Desmukh got. He should be ashamed of himself. A chief minister must not go unprepared to face Karan Thapar. Likewise Karan should interview Arjun Singh. I am sure he will get what he deserves in a long time. The best policy to wind-up reservations - WHICH MUST BE WOULD UP ONCE AND FOR ALL is: 1. Revamp the primary/secondary school systems to part knowledge rather than make the students cram stupid lessons which are forgotten in no time.. 2. Give financial boost to the OBC/ST/SC and other backward classes to give them equal opportunity. i.e subsidise the bright brains. 3. Judge all on equal footing without lowering any standards. Rather the standards should be raised from time to time. 4. Select the OBC/SC/ST candidates first to give credence to their lower social standing. ( strike out the money angle in selection) Just like helping the farmers to save them from committing suicide, help the OBC/ST/SCs what have you to better facilities in lower education with all those thousands of crores that are going down the drains and you certainly do not need RESERVATIONS All said and done, I fully appreciate the humour in which the email in question has been written. I congratulate the author. And George must read the email again after observing what I have said above. floriano goasuraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@goanet.org> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:49 AM Subject: [Goanet] Re: The debate on reservations > The email below is one of the stupidest recently on Goanet. There ought to be a special category > reserved for dumb emails and the email below tops the list. If people don't have anything > intelligent to say about an issue, valuable bandwidth should not be wasted. Even as humour it > fails miserably and reads like a veiled attempt to further discriminate against marginalized > groups while trying to be funny. > > Regards, > George _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)