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One day, we may need an “Indian” quota

23 June 2012 375 views 2 Comments

Courtesy my friend RealityCheck (emphasis added); please try and ignore the absurdity of the headline in (as RealityCheck so memorably puts it) “a chest thumping secular country“. From 2 more minority lists put up, cut-offs dip further by Bhavya Dore, Hindustan Times, Mumbai, June 22, 2012, this brief excerpt:

At NM College in Vile Parle, the commerce cut-off for Gujarati minority students fell from 90.91% last year to 89.64% this year.

..At Hinduja College, students who fall in the Sindhi quota will be given walk-in admissions until Friday morning. Earlier this week, cut-offs at Sathaye College in Vile Parle for the in-house quota, St Andrew’s College in Bandra for the Christian minority quota and SIES College in Sion for the South Indian minority quota registered a fall.

Previously, the Sindhi quota cut-off at Jai Hind College and the Christian quota cut-off at St Xavier’s College had also fallen.

I really don’t know whether to laugh or cry..Beyond farcical, isn’t it? I am reminded of Dividing India: one bit at a time

2 Comments »

1. Panna Dey said:

Everyone is a minority in one way or the other. The scheduled tribe and scheduled caste quotas were already there with numerous special facilities for them. And now the trend of minorities! I myself fall under religious minority (Christian)but i dont like the whole thing!

25 June 2012

2. allwyn said:

me too took minority admission as catholic and i am atheist had to give in to parents as its their damn money.

PS: From “dividing india” i’m reminded of one argument that india should never have been one and all states should have been separate countries like small ones there in europe – norway, sweden etc.
Any comments on this?

1 July 2012