Yesterday I had a chance to meet with India. Shockingly this India was far more different than The India which is being shown and marketed abroad. The metro dwellers see India as a country where there are unlimited opportunities. India where democracy is followed religiously and all political parties swear by it. Every political party claim to be the true representative of the the down trodden, lesser privileged, helpless Indians. Parliament is seen as a temple of democracy and revered as a very sacred place by all those who believe in the saying of government for the people, by the people and of the people. It is supposed that priests sitting in the parliament are the best representative of the 130 crore people of India who elected them by a very rigorous procedure and spending billions of rupees.
Alas, the reality is just opposite to the ideal picture. Yesterday I had some plumbing job work at my place and i got a chance to interact with the laborers. One of them a young boy of 20 years of age, with shabby hair from Patna, a school dropout. He studied till in 9th standard. Very hard working boy with a good physique and good etiquette to talk.
High IQ of a labour was surprising for me. When he chatted with me he unfolded that he was topper in his class till ninth standard and had to discontinue studies because his family could not support him. He is living in Ludhiana for the past seven years and was unable to visit his native place for the past four years as he was supporting the family by working at Ludhiana. He cannot afford to leave the work, as two brothers and mother at home need his earning to feed themselves. But he was still kicking the life with full glow in his eyes. He was so meticulous in his working and seeing his stamina of work i wondered that why he is not a sport person or an army personnel. Either way he could have been an asset.
Second person a bit more sophisticated was graduate (BSc.) with non medical back ground. There was uncertainty written on his face. He looked dejected and a failed person although he was just 30 years of age. Falling prices of sponge iron made him unemployed because the Iron foundry at Bhuvneshwar in Oddisa, was shut down. Now he has started plumbing at Ludhiana. When i talked to him he told that he was married early and his daughter was studying in +2 at Rourkela in a CBSE school. The girl is bright in studies and got 90% marks in matric in ICSE school. Now she has taken medical stream and want to become doctor. She is scoring around 80% in +1. This person has no money to pay fee for her daughter but yet arranging money by taking loans. Here i will like to mention that he is from general category. This person told me that he is literally out of money, but trying to work hard to fulfill the dream of his daughter. He worked at Hyderabad and other places but money is hard to come by. He is struggling and said in despair that he could not do anything in his life. He was science graduate yet forced to do plumbing.
The political bosses in India claim that they will lay their lives to save reservation, then i ask them question that who will stand for these meritorious and deserving students ? If only the caste and creed will decide the future of India ? If yes than i must say there is no future of India. I donot want reservation for me and my Kids. I want equal opportunity for these rural kids, who are as bright or better than the urbanites. If the energy of these kids is channelized, i am sure that India will become the Global Guru in true sense. But if we keep in killing the talent in the gas chamber of reservation, there is really no future of India.
Jai Hind
Alas, the reality is just opposite to the ideal picture. Yesterday I had some plumbing job work at my place and i got a chance to interact with the laborers. One of them a young boy of 20 years of age, with shabby hair from Patna, a school dropout. He studied till in 9th standard. Very hard working boy with a good physique and good etiquette to talk.
High IQ of a labour was surprising for me. When he chatted with me he unfolded that he was topper in his class till ninth standard and had to discontinue studies because his family could not support him. He is living in Ludhiana for the past seven years and was unable to visit his native place for the past four years as he was supporting the family by working at Ludhiana. He cannot afford to leave the work, as two brothers and mother at home need his earning to feed themselves. But he was still kicking the life with full glow in his eyes. He was so meticulous in his working and seeing his stamina of work i wondered that why he is not a sport person or an army personnel. Either way he could have been an asset.
Second person a bit more sophisticated was graduate (BSc.) with non medical back ground. There was uncertainty written on his face. He looked dejected and a failed person although he was just 30 years of age. Falling prices of sponge iron made him unemployed because the Iron foundry at Bhuvneshwar in Oddisa, was shut down. Now he has started plumbing at Ludhiana. When i talked to him he told that he was married early and his daughter was studying in +2 at Rourkela in a CBSE school. The girl is bright in studies and got 90% marks in matric in ICSE school. Now she has taken medical stream and want to become doctor. She is scoring around 80% in +1. This person has no money to pay fee for her daughter but yet arranging money by taking loans. Here i will like to mention that he is from general category. This person told me that he is literally out of money, but trying to work hard to fulfill the dream of his daughter. He worked at Hyderabad and other places but money is hard to come by. He is struggling and said in despair that he could not do anything in his life. He was science graduate yet forced to do plumbing.
The political bosses in India claim that they will lay their lives to save reservation, then i ask them question that who will stand for these meritorious and deserving students ? If only the caste and creed will decide the future of India ? If yes than i must say there is no future of India. I donot want reservation for me and my Kids. I want equal opportunity for these rural kids, who are as bright or better than the urbanites. If the energy of these kids is channelized, i am sure that India will become the Global Guru in true sense. But if we keep in killing the talent in the gas chamber of reservation, there is really no future of India.
Jai Hind
