Bane of Indian Society

The Bane of our Indian Society:Quota system.

This morning, I was shocked to read the headlines in the newspaper, it read, “Central Government to move forward with implementing 27% quota for OBC from June 2007”.
The politicians had come up with yet another horrendous scheme to garner the minority vote bank. The worst thing of all, the central government decided to implement the decision in spite of the students all over India condemning it unanimously.

The only aim behind this quota is to garner minority votes. If IIM’s and IIT’s are forced to allocate about 27% of their seats, then they will lose their value and the image of the institutions will be tarnished forever. The next reason is that even if OBC students enter IIT or IIM via quota system, most of them will struggle to pass the exams due to the high quality education system in these prestigious institutions. Even if the students do manage to scrap through, they will always be considered inferior. The only way that can impoverish the poor is by providing them adequate facilities like food , shelter, education, and jobs, not by quotas. You can only teach a person to eat, you cannot spoon-feed him.

I have personally seen a few of my friends who belong to lower castes and still object reservation (I hate the caste system, but am forced to use this word for this blog). They are brilliant in studies and excel in their respective fields, the irony is that my friends have refused scholarships as they lessen their desire to excel and tarnish their self-esteem. I feel proud of my friends (Chaitanya, Masthanaiyyah and Kanniayappan), three cheers to you all!

Implementation of this quota will bring about misery and agony to all, brilliant students will lose their chance to study in IIT and IIM, and this will result in Brain Drain (immigration of talent to other countries). Other students will intentionally target the Students who enter via this quota. The students who enter via quota may find it very hard to adapt them to the high quality syllabus, which might lead to failure in academics. The worst thing is that MNC’s may not recognize IIT or IIM due to quota implementation and so the other talented students might lose precious job opportunities.

It has been more than 25 years since the Mandal commission set up the quota system, but the system had failed miserably and even today 60% of the minorities are lagging behind the poverty line. This clearly indicates the failure of the quota system. The only way to empower minorities is to make them self-reliant and provide adequate facilities like proper school education, food, and shelter. Granting quotas will make them lazy and kill their killer instincts.

I wish that our Prime Minister would stop being a puppet and handle the issue with an iron will by chucking out Arjun singh and his supporters from the cabinet.

The only thing I can do is blog, while those who have power are fiddling with it and talented youngsters suffering for those idiotic decisions I would be happy if quotas were based on Economical and educational backgrounds rather than caste based, if quotas were based on a person’s financial background or his academic performance, we are bound to find many Abdul Kalams, C.V. Ramans, Chandarasekhars, and M.S. Swaminathans.

I know that I can do nothing about this issue, but I wanted to blog this to vent out my frustration like many others, hope you agree.

Come back to me

Come back to me dear,

You are so far, yet near.

You are the best part of my life

I wish you would be my wife.

Its been six years since we met

And you haven’t loved me back yet.

I am sorry dear, because I am no poet

To express my love with great poems.

All I know is that I love you

And my feelings are very true

Even if you hate me, and don’t want to see my face

Just lie that you love me, and show some grace.

All I want is to be with you,

I want to laugh when you laugh,

And cry when you cry,

Without you I will definitely die.

I may not be a perfect man,

But I definitely ,I will show you that I can.

Come to me, my darling, be my better half

Even if I cry, I will make you laugh.

For others, you are just a pretty girl, but to me , you are my life.

I just want you to be my loving wife.

So , don’t say no and make me sad.

Without you, my life is bad.

Don’t think that I will forget you, no never!

Because I will remember you for ever and ever.

Even if you ignore me, I will love you.

Because I love you as if you are god.

SO do me a favor, either accept my love

Or kill me, but don’t torture me.

I don’t want to lose you, and if I do

That will be the time when I die.

And even if I live, I will be a zombie

Whose life has been plundered.

So, come back to me , my future wife.

Because I will treat you as my life and not just as a wife.

Dreams of a common man

The Marina Beach.

The city of Chennai has many spots where people can go and enjoy, but there is only one place, where the rich, poor, and middle class people all go and enjoy in their own ways. It is the Marina beach, it is not only famous for being the second largest beach in the world, but it has got many other specialties, ,which no other beach in the world has. Marina is surrounded by many important places.


One is the Vivekananda house (the place where swami Vivekananda stayed during his stay in Chennai in 1902).
The next one is the Santhome church, which was built about 400 years ago and is of both significant and religious importance.
The third is the University of Madras building which is located just opposite to the beach. The fourth is the presence of the samadhis( memorials ) of two former chief ministers of TamilNadu ( Mr M.G Ramachandran and C.N. Annadurai). The other notable worth mentioning are the Marina swimming pool and the Aquarium located nearby.
If these are not enough, you have the Sri Parthasarathy temple, which is just located 1 m away from the beach. The temple is a thousand years old and is one of the most visited Vishnu temples.
If people love books, then you can find many of them in Pycrofts road,Triplicane or thiruvallikeni (near to the beach).

There are about 2 colleges near to the beach , one is the Queen Mary’s college ,which was the first womans’ college in Chennai, and the next one is the Presidency college ,which is rich in heritage and about 150 years old( DR Radhakrishnan studied here)

The speciality of Marina does not end here, she caters to the needs of all visitors and makes all people happy no matter who they are and where they come from.

Marina is home to several thousands of fisherman and woman. Most of the fisherman live In the nearby slums, but a small minority build their huts in the beach itself and live there facing the hot sun. The fisherman live as a joint community spending nearly 70% of their life in the sea, it is pathetic to see that they still suffer from poverty due to lack of attention, their only hope is the sea, which is their mother.

In the evenings, especially in the weekends, scores of people , poor and middle class come to the beach in thousands, everywhere you turn around , you can see a lot of scenes like 1) a poor man buying sundal (boiled gram) and murukku for his wife and kids
2) A man and a woman (mostly lovers) sitting in a remote corner and chatting to each other (no one know what they chat about).
3) Kids playing various games throwing all types of things and catching them.
4) The upper class people who come in cars and they spend the day buying ice creams, cool drinks etc for their family and sometimes you can see individuals boozing.
5) The famous Bajji shops that are making hot business selling all types of Bajjis and bondas. Not to forget the sundal wallah’s who sell sundal and murukku.
6) The chat shops, sugarcane shops, and the shops that sell fancy items made of shells etc making good business.
7) The group of college students, school students, and even elders playing cricket in the Beach lane.

There are hundreds of things that I would like to say more, but I cant because of the space constraint. No matter how shabby or dirty the Marina beach is, but it is still a wonder.

The biggest speciality of the Marina beach is that no matter who you are and what you are, once you go to her, you will never be disappointed, because Marina is like a mother and she takes care of the needs of all her children(us), that is why she is the queen of beaches.