05-25-2006, 09:40 PM
http://us.rediff.com/news/2006/may/25spec1...?q=tp&file=.htm
I didnt have (perhaps still dont) the maturity and thought processes that these kids have while being in the 6th semester. Bhagwan kare all kids in Bharat are like this..
These kids have setup a blog - check it out.
http://youthforequality.blogspot.com/
http://www.youth4equality.org/
From the above rediff interview..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vishal: As part of the delegation I have met (Union ministers) Oscar Fernandes, P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee. My colleagues have met Arjun Singh in early April.
It was not a very good meeting. <b>Arjun Singh was not ready to discuss the issue at all. He told us we should postpone the agitation because the assembly election was on. </b>After the election he said publicly that the decision on reservation was not reversible.
That ten minute meeting was not a meeting at all. The media was present, we were there and he was sitting opposite us. He said something that meant nothing. When we meet deans, bureaucrats or seniors, they are open and talk about what all is possible. But politicians are tied up. They never open their hearts.
After meeting so many of them I agree with what people generally say that politicians are heartless people. It is not that they lack arguments but they are stubborn people. They call us anti-reservationists and say we are not ready to think about other people but unfortunately politicians are not ready to think about us.
Mr Chidambaram said personally he would agree with our 'Creamy Layerwala funda' (rich and powerful amongst the backward castes) but then he said MGR (the late chief minister M G Ramachandran) in Tamil Nadu thought about the creamy layer issue for one year but could not arrive at how to define the creamy layer!
Yes, we do think it is not easy to define the creamy layer, although we keep talking about it. <b>Chidambaram said South India has prospered with 70 per cent reservation and this reservation have been there for more than 80 years.</b>
<b>So I asked him: 'Sir, if it has there for long, why are you continuing with it because by this time society must have been uplifted?'</b> He just said let the Tamil parties and assembly decide how to go on.
Pranab Mukherjee didn't talk much when we met him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Don't try to put the tag of anti-quotawallahs on us. If I, as a poor student, need money, books, clothes and infrastructure to study further why is the government not coming forward? Why have quota on basis of caste? Why?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I didnt have (perhaps still dont) the maturity and thought processes that these kids have while being in the 6th semester. Bhagwan kare all kids in Bharat are like this..
These kids have setup a blog - check it out.
http://youthforequality.blogspot.com/
http://www.youth4equality.org/
From the above rediff interview..
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vishal: As part of the delegation I have met (Union ministers) Oscar Fernandes, P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee. My colleagues have met Arjun Singh in early April.
It was not a very good meeting. <b>Arjun Singh was not ready to discuss the issue at all. He told us we should postpone the agitation because the assembly election was on. </b>After the election he said publicly that the decision on reservation was not reversible.
That ten minute meeting was not a meeting at all. The media was present, we were there and he was sitting opposite us. He said something that meant nothing. When we meet deans, bureaucrats or seniors, they are open and talk about what all is possible. But politicians are tied up. They never open their hearts.
After meeting so many of them I agree with what people generally say that politicians are heartless people. It is not that they lack arguments but they are stubborn people. They call us anti-reservationists and say we are not ready to think about other people but unfortunately politicians are not ready to think about us.
Mr Chidambaram said personally he would agree with our 'Creamy Layerwala funda' (rich and powerful amongst the backward castes) but then he said MGR (the late chief minister M G Ramachandran) in Tamil Nadu thought about the creamy layer issue for one year but could not arrive at how to define the creamy layer!
Yes, we do think it is not easy to define the creamy layer, although we keep talking about it. <b>Chidambaram said South India has prospered with 70 per cent reservation and this reservation have been there for more than 80 years.</b>
<b>So I asked him: 'Sir, if it has there for long, why are you continuing with it because by this time society must have been uplifted?'</b> He just said let the Tamil parties and assembly decide how to go on.
Pranab Mukherjee didn't talk much when we met him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Don't try to put the tag of anti-quotawallahs on us. If I, as a poor student, need money, books, clothes and infrastructure to study further why is the government not coming forward? Why have quota on basis of caste? Why?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->