Micro-post of the day..
..in which the “Prince” reminds us that regardless of who we want to be known as – and what we achieve, we will always be known by our caste, language, religion etc etc.
Thanks to the “Prince”, I learnt yesterday that Sam Pitroda is from a “backward class” 🙁
This next generation leader and PM-in-making is supposed to represent the “Youth” and promises to lead India into the 21st century. Really?
Sad, embarrassed and ashamed of the crisis in leadership that plagues India.
As a friend remarked, we must be the “only nation in the world to take pride in walking backwards….away from meritocracy into everything from birth, caste, sub-caste, religion etc etc...”
Meanwhile, the steady “division” of India continues…one bit at a time (emphasis added):
Mukherjee also said government was looking at a 50% quota for SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities both in the composition of the Lokpal and the search committee.
Sigh.
young Gandhi also turns to caste to get votes. Sad day for INDIA.
When youth is leaving behind caste, creed and even nationality and trying to make one world, their supposed leader is not able to.
I entirely agree with Shantanu
The anti-national Congress party and its corrupt, communal and casteist leaders are a curse for India.The saddest part is that all the pseudo-secular parties are following suit and divided Indians on the basis of caste and comunity.There is a full-page advertisement in ‘The New Indian Express’of today(20th Dec.2011)by the Mayavati Govt of UP,where all the special benefits given to the so-called minorities have been highlighted.I would like VHP to take up this discrimination against the hindus very seriously and fight for equal rights of the hindus,who have been denied their due for the sake of votebanks by greedy and anti-national politicians.
Now even the debate on the Lokpal bill has gone to reservation for caste and religious minorities. It is really sad that merit is now a four lettered word in India and no one dares to mention it in public.
Dear Shantanu,
To repeat what I (and few others actually, no claim to be original) have been saying for sometime now:
The English say *Votes are Cast but we Indians know Castes are Votes*.
Cheers!!!
Thanx to Shekhar Gupta, I learnt abt the caste of many of our politicians – something in which I’d no interest in 🙁