On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Deepak Shenoy <[email protected]> wrote: > This I agree with. We should do away with ECNR (which is supposed to > protect us from ourselves) and allow people to defect, leave, return > etc. at will. We shouldn't though make it possible for those branded > "talented" to be better mobile than others. What applies to one must > apply to all. (Except those with parole violations etc. of course)
Making the process more efficient does not increase the level of injustice or inequality in society. How is turning up at $rich-nation-embassy and standing in line for half a day or paying someone to hold your spot from 4AM in the morning and getting frisked before getting interrogated by a bored white guy any more equal? No smelly non-English speaking poor bastard of an Indian will even stand a chance of clearing the embassy gate anyway, so where is the equality? India might as well drop the hypocrisy and come clean that the population is unequal and having wealth makes one the new upper caste Brahmin in the capitalistic age. So far I've heard either the "oh my, but we are an equal society" refrain, or utter distrust in the Indian government's ability to even administer a tiered citizenship. The former is a fig leaf, since as I said our society is unequal, let's get over it. And the latter is merely an implementation problem; there are definitely ways around this. More job opportunities for the private sector to own and administer this problem surely - after all the private sector solves everything better and faster, yes?
