Its interesting that at the time when Women got their rights to permanent commission in the Indian Army, the women’ reservation bill had to be discussed on the grounds of equality.

Not that i have anything against women, but it is the mere rational of reservation! Its like wanting to overcome the guilt of  years of injustice., that we almost always go overboard a a society and sow the seeds for another skewed social effect.

If you have read the Mandal commission report, you would appreciate the rationality and subjectivity with which the statements have been forcefully coined and would make you believe that it was indeed the case. just like reservation within bureaucracy was not advised (though practiced) on the justification of progressively diluting quality of high technology / higher education and so on in the mandal commission report, it is important that mere sentiments towards an issue should not be allowed to let us give ourselves, biased rules and diluted futures.

the ideals of empowerment is eclipsing the very foundation of democratic progeny in India. the basic pillars of democracy as said by the constitution: executive, judiciary & legislature should not be diluted by compromised merit and here i do include the current reservations as well.

but here we are one year after the general elections and most ministers have not done anything, and so they want a poll point to fight for and add something to their ‘did do’ list. if our national parties indeed did want reservation for so long, then they should have first practiced it internally.

the single largest misnomer would be that women would support women, and they would preserve their rights and thereby allowing trickling down of things and all the jazz… also the assumption that current India still subjugates women is probably too far stretched for this argument. at the end of the day, the poor bloke like you are me are the ones caught even this time between the fights of the high and strong.

reservation: does anybody really care about you?

i may not be the first to oppose the reservation and be termed as a male chauvinist, but that is fundamentally the reason why many op-posers fail from orating their opinion in fear of, having themselves branded so! needless to say this has become more a political issue as most issues, instead of the argument of building a better society.

level the playing fields! give preference to merit. and in this merit if women get 100% of the seats i don’t think anybody has any problem whatsoever, but we need to have a more widespread debate across the society, and let parties at their own discretion have their own standards and not impose it on lesser mortals like us.

another important observation in our national debates is sometimes the tangential nature that they tend to take sometimes and may even sometimes as someone would have wanted it to! its not a mayawati nor lallu not is it any leader’s issue. the issue needs to taken at the face value of reservation! and not beyond that spectrum.

well if words were wishes! what would i have wanted

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