Out of the two topics I really wanted to write on, I chose the one which is more relevant to the stage of life I am in, The reservation issue in India.
India has been witnessing the worse form of politics lately, education and training of talented youths no longer seems to be the primary motive of the government, rather vote gaining tactics are suppressing genuine talent. Reservation policy is nothing but a dirty way to ensure votes in the party's favor, an open exploitation of the fact that a considerable population of India is classified as SC's, ST's and OBC's. I don't advocate keeping these classes as such and not helping them gain quality education so that eventually they may enter the main stream, actually I feel that reservation till secondary level is a fantastic idea, let me say that again with impact, TILL SECONDARY LEVEL. Why I say that? The logic behind this is that the current system gives the under-reservation classes absolutely no reason to work hard, it gives them no incentive at all. They know that even if they fail in metric, they have assured job under the reservation policy. The result, a poorly qualified workforce. The same is the case in higher education scene, people who are not really worth getting into such institutions are getting admission and the already lacking number of seats in IIT's and IIM's go further down for the bright students who are unlucky to not to be born in a SC family. I call this killing talent just because we did not do something which should have been done earlier, reservation would have been more explainable if it would have been just after independence, because people had the will but not the opportunity, but now this is nothing but giving opportunity to such people who have no will, are poorly qualified and will have no significant effect on the ailing skilled workforce scene in India. Rather than giving these people everything on a silver platter, the concentration should be on the young population of India, on providing them good education, reserving seats for them at primary level, so that they can compete with everyone for entrance in higher education institutes on the basis of their competence and and not on the basis of the family they are born in. If this happens my friend would not have to say "India main kuch nahi rakha hai, yahan sab reserved hai, IIT ke sapne sapne hi reh jayenge."(There is nothing left in India, everything is being reserved, dream of getting in IIT would remain a dream.)
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