Reservation Debate

Below is my mail to Prof Yogendra Yadav of DU..i really appreciate the conversations we have.


Hi Sir,

I would like to touch upon this subject we have been discussing again, in the the aftermath of the court's descision.

I have mixed feelings with the judgement of the Honourable Supreme Court, on one hand am happy that i
t has simulated a chance to discuss the effectiveness of reservations,
questioned the validity of the data used to distribute the previlages and
also held that these can not be continued for ever and people can not be allowed to clamour and compete to be be labelled backkword.
But i am also feeling ashamed that the judiciary has to cross its limits to show light to the Legislature and the Executive. The continious inability of the legislature as well as the executive to bring in a coordinated and effective process to alieveate the prevailing situations is the real reason i think.

I went back to the question as to why people like me oppose reservations, well i think most of us do not object to them PER SE ...... we are not totally against any kind of social justice but the following should be considered:
One form of extremism does not justify another form of extremism, i mean an allegation that Bhramins have held the socirty to rule for hundreds of years as an argument does not give the rest of the castes to repeat the same mistakes.
I find the observations by Mt chandrbhan very inetresting that the so called OBC's are more responsible for the repression of SC and ST's. This aspect should also be debated and taken into consideration.
and finally I DO SUPPORT THE SOCIAL INDEX based affirmative action, which should take into consideration other parameters apart form caste , such as economic condition, the accesibility of education, rural and urban phenomenons etc.
W eprobably need a middle path on this, as its not right that the political parties tread teh path to vote bank politics and the real needy still remains largely untouched by reform process.
I oppose this reservation still in its current format, but i support the format suggested by Prof Deshpande and you.
But i still do not understand why your voices are not so loud agianst the current format. I appreciate that you have proposed a different index based format as opposed to the current one.
I do not intend to argue, i belibe you and I have had a very nice subjective discussion on the above topic .....and I remain grateful to you for taking time to reply to my mails.

Cheers
Kartik

Aee Naiii Cholbe ...Bhuddada!!! Ekla Chalo.

Can anyone guess as to which state opposes Industrialisation........yeps.....guessed it right its Bengal and who wants it Industrialised ......this one is tough cause the left supporting Industrialisation is like Young GUYS giving up booze and girls :)

Bengal was once more Industrialised than Malaysia, and the came the CPI/M , elite Delhi university educated, scotch drinking bhadralok communists. They put in place a system on Sickle and Hammer and well all growth was cut by the Sickle and all Capital Hammered...whats left is a dirty Howrah famous for Sonagachi ..the biggest brothel in India.
Anyhow, the fortune of wheel turned and Salvation was attained by the Marxist chief Minister Buddhadeb ......and he wanted rapid industrialisation. But then this is India ...if one takes 30 Yrs to make people used to Sickle and Hammer, how does he expect to repeal the same in 3 months.
Aee Naiii Cholbe ...Bhuddada!!! Ekla Chalo!!! :)

Protectionism in a Flat World - Indian Paradox

Such is India, that every day I see a paradox somewhere and reassure myself that diversity can exist in unity and destruction does in some way lead to creation .....

• Any guess as to who wants to oppose OUTSOURCING of jobs in India ........HOLY COW ....the Bank Employees!!! I am stumped, India is a country which steals about 65% of all outsourced white collar jobs and well if am right, about 20% of the engineers produced by India would have a parent working in some public sector Bank in India ....well i know that this is the so called upper and lower middle class (Fringe UMC..la Arjun Singh) and most of them have utilised their foresight and money as an investment on their making India's engineers ......who in turn snatch jobs all around and mint Dollars...and now ...the same parents are opposing outsourcing of the Bank Jobs to private companies ......Protectionism in a Flat World :)

Is indian growth story for real!!!

I read a lot of newspaper online ...well one of the reasons i had a lesser FFF ( Female Fan Following) :)

Recently, it seems my interest with Indian economics is growing too, weird for someone of my kind, I used to be live am a romantic :)

Reading the views of the left,right, centre right, centre left, liberal ..so on and so forth these days, has thrown a real question ...."Is the Indian Growth Story for Real"???

I think yes, actually Yes is the answer and probably we are going the right way albeit a bit slow , too slow probably but well may be that's also a boon in disguise.

Lets not compare ourselves to Norway for we are too big in size and dimension..

Not the USA coz, we are a lot younger and evolving yet ..

Not China coz we are far more DEMOCRATIC

Not Indonesia coz we are far more Secular

Not the UK coz we are less Imperial

Not the South Americans, coz we are not a Soccer or Cofee Economy :)

Not the Arabs, coz we have more method to our madness :P

Not the French, coz we are less confused..

Not the Germans coz we are lazier

Not the Japs coz we are less disciplined

NOt the Koreans coz we are less liberal economy

We are India, We are different we need out own time and sense:)

My Name - Demistified!!

I thought i would start my first Blog by -- Demistifying my name!!

Yah, i have to do this coz am tired with all the explaining i have to do everytime :) so its simple now, next time someone wants to knwo what my FULL name is , i ll give this blog URL. haha

My name is Ayalasomayajula Kartikey ...ooops!! sorry this is what my parents thought it ll look like actually. I am a south indian hence, the "Ayalasomayajula" part was meant to be my last name and "kartikey" was meant to be the first name.

Background for those interested is that "Ayala" means Five in sanskrit i suppose and "Somayajula" is someone who has performed five yagnas. So, seems like someone in my blood line performed 5 yagnas....!!!! I dunno if it helped India though :P


Thanks Dad!! for not putting the hateful "h" in my name........please guys ...i dnt like my first name with the customary SOUTH INDIAN "H"....

Anyway, i was brought up in Bhubaneswar, hence the Udiya Public there couldnt understand the significance of such a complicated name, so in High School, ....SADLY my last name was broken into two parts with some additional manioulations to the above name :)

So, this is what my name became after High School :

Last Name: Ayalh
Middle Name: Somayajula
First Name: Kartik

I decided to live with it, as in India its a pain in the right places to get your name changed and I thought may be industrialisation and liberalisation would make sure there are no more contours added to my name.

But, well When was India considered simple, Its strange, and hence, in north India people write their last names "Last" and First names "First", and south has to do its opposite ... I never could actually find out the advantages of this practice....

anyway this compounded my agony with the name and some BABU in the passport Office decided to give a twist and interchange my first and middle names ....SO i had a new name ...

First Name: Somayajula
Middle Name: Kartikay
Last Name: Ayalh

I dunno who uses which part of it though ...all my freinds call me "Kartik" yessss simple Kar+Tik and there is no damn "H" also :)))))

but i do find it weird when someone calles me SOMAYAJULA, i dont recognise myself, might take time to get used to it :)