Reservation Policy - Castration of Merit

The UPA government, with their "Minimum Common Program" is so desperate to remain in power and secure their future in the next Lok Sabha polls by dividing the people of India on basis of merit. It is sad to see a person of stature Dr.Manmohan Singh dancing to the tunes of Sonia and sick ministers who can't even walk and talk properly (prouncing reservation as reJervaSion), but sitting at the helm and deciding about the future of the country. It is shame for a nation to go back to the dark periods after seeing unprecedented economic growth when Dr.Manmohan was the finance minsiter.

India is going to be divided on caste basis and no wonder if upper class and OBC clash on streets one day and fight like dogs. The HRD ministry may then intervene because they will fear that if they don't protect the OBCs who are fighting, they might loose their vote banks

If the Congress and its allies believe that this is done as a justice to the dalits, they are wrong. No genuine dalit is going to get benefitted by this scheme. The "rich" dalit will continue to be richer and poor dalits will continue to be poorer.

If a backward class person doesn't have facilities to study, provide him the infrastructure. Give him a place to live, food to eat, clothes and basic amenities. But please don't compensate on the marks. Our President APJ Kalam and so many innumerable stalwarts that India has produced in various fields didn't come up in life because they used OBC quota. THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL PURELY DUE TO THEIR MERIT.

The next generation will see heaps of useless idiots in top positions in all sections of the society. Imagine few places listed below where it would be interesting to see quota based system coming into force

The top software companies in India like Infosys or Wipro conduct should pick OBC candidates who scored just 10 out of 100 marks in their recruitment test whereas they may have to reject someone who would have scored 80 out of 100 because he is from an upper class and fell short. The same rule will be applicable during interviews - OBC may not take any interview whereas upper class have to go through rigorous 5 round interview

The head of premier investigation agency CBI

The head of ISRO

The Dean of IIMS, directors of IIT and heads of institutions such as AIIMS, JIPMER, XLRI

The Chief Justice of Supreme Court

The top 3 military positions - Army General, Navy Admiral and Airforce commander

WOW! India Shining ! Let the merit based selection go to hell and these kind of reservations lead India into darkness forever and let brain drain flourish pushing the country to 50 years back where it was.

Reservation Policy - Time for some comic relief

Some creative ideas - as a mockery of Reservation policy.

Immortalised in "Deewar" and followed-up with a Graffiti

"Da Vinci Code" in India

The "Da Vinci Code" finally got cleared from the most sacred institution in India - the film censor board aided by the so-called "secular" congress led UPA government at the centre. Our government (to make sure that their Christian vote bank doesn't decrease) put up a drama not to screen this. The comedy or irony is that even the most dominant catholic countries didn't had any such objections. If not for the publicity, the film would have been viewed as just another movie by the people here. Now because of our "secular" government, it would attract more audience who
will come just to see what the heck the controversy is about. The book, when it came out, was lashed at by the Vatican asking people not to read, but seeing the continuing rise in sales, Vatican choose to tone down than helping sales.

Whoever wants to see the movie, please do read the book before you watch. There are so many intricate plot and cryptic information which an individual may not be able to comprehend in the length of the movie. The book is gripping, with each chapter ending with a twist thus compelling the reader to read further. Once you start reading, you would like to keep it down only when you finish.

I came across an interesting link in howstuffworks.com -
How Da Vinci Code doesn't work, which clarifies some of the facts and numbers plotted in the story basically to tell the people not to take the fictional information as fact. This is equally important so that the fictional information is not used to educate or made popular quiz questions !!

Can you see the "TROUSER"?

If you are thinking that the picture below looks like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, you are mistaken. This is an ad for Italian clothing brand STANZA that appeared in the Sunday May 7th edition of Hindu (half-page ad in page 20)



The line below the words 'STANZA' in the picture (on the top left) reads 'Shirts and Trousers'. BUT WHERE IS THE TROUSER HERE? If you can't see the text, just click the picture and it will show up in a big size. You would then be able to see the text as well as a closer look at the model.

The picture reminds me of the story "Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Chsitian Anderson which we all would have studied at some point in our school curriculam. Thank God - they have printed the brand name without which it can be intercepted for various other things. Advertising has come a long way, but still, we have to put up with these kind of highly "abstract" advertisements.

Wonder Kid "Bhudia Singh"

If you haven't heard about the wonder kid Bhudia Singh from the state of Orissa, read the details below to know about the prospective long distance runner who has the potential to make the country proud if shown right direction

He is 4 and half years old when this post is written

He was sold to a private group for a sum of 800 Rs by his mother as she couldn't maintain him with her income

He was observed to posses an appetite for running long-distance by his coach (to whom Bhudia was sold) when he punished him by asking him to run a distance which Bhudia completed without much fuss

He practices everyday running 50 Kms, 25 in the morning and 25 in the evening !!! (more than the distance of marathon which is 42.5 Kms)

He entered into the "Limca Book Records" on May 4, 2006 for running 65 Kms non-stop in 7 hours & 2 minutes

I sincerely hope that the media and agencies don't eagle on him as they do it on budding sportspersons, which actually makes the prospective persons go into a slump in their form because of not being able to sustain the continued exposure to media. Very few manage to keep their foot firm on ground like Viswanathan Anand.

Media (Ads / newspapers) is the two best way to reach the people. But please - allow Bhudia to grow up in his own way and let us not spoil a good future

Brand Sachin: Signs new marketing contract

Oh - Not again. Will this man ever focus on scoring runs than being keen on his advertisement revenues? He had a whooping sum as contract with Worldtel (of late ) for a period of 10 years and moment it ended, he has got into a new one. Read the link http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/246127.html written at Cricinfo.com for more details on this wonderful new venture of Mr.Sachin where he is going to earn few more million dollars

It is true that cricketers need to have other sources of income, as they retire by the age of 40. But what's the problem for someone like Sachin? He can still command a good income by managing a cricket academy. In fact, he owns a restaurant in Mumbai.

Can't he make a big bang style comeback at this Carribean tour which will make the people feel that he is still the best batsman and brand in the world than just keep signing contracts? It is very unfortunate for some one like me to criticise Sachin after being his ardent fan till a couple of years back.