Wipro chairman Mr. Azim prem ji's comment on reservation
Wipro chairman Mr. Azim prem ji's comment on reservation: Good one.. read on....* * I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC /ST like that. Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an SC/ST/OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by a SC/ST/OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An SC/ST/OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century. We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our SC/ST/OBC player. Bowlers should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an SC/ST/OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal. Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an SC/ST/OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters. There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians (that can really help the country.. ) Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country..) Let's be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward... Let's show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let's be proud of being an INDIAN.. May the good breed of politicians long live.. *
The above article is attributed to Mr. Azim Premji, a great man no wonder, it has been hugely popular in social networking sites over the past few months, enthusiastically shared and commented upon by 50.5 % of the population ( you know what i mean, after all we are in the land of 49.5 % reservation ) and ignored by rest of the population. After being a silent spectator to this drama, i have decided to dissect the article and the issue for good.
The popularity of the article arises from the fact that its witty and hypocritical and it glorifies the supposed ( no way i'm not taking sides yet ) injustice to the unreserved classes. The analogy with cricket too helps as we are a country where cricketers have alternating statuses of demigods and demons, almost everyone will have a connect with it. What more it ends with a patriotic sign off and the sarcastic political remarks add on too, absolute brilliance I say !! On the other hand conceptually i feel the article is farce, it only shows one side of the reservation coin and conveniently leaves the other.
You can't understand when you are feed from a tv screen, you can't see the things that I can see.
Truth is a powerful weapon, both its presence and absence can wreak havoc, I intend to explore the truth now. Lets take Mr. Premji's example, it would appear the rules thus tampered in a game of cricket would mean utter injustice to other players but the example fails to consider other facts outside the rules. What if the players were randomly picked and had no control in which team (read caste) they would placed into. What if for centuries some teams we made to sit outside the boundaries and just watch the game and do nothing else or even worse they weren't even allowed into the stadiums, and what if the these teams lost even before they played, as they weren't allowed even to play with higher teams.
Lets leave the past lets come back to the independent cricketing times (Independent India) when there were no longer any restrictions according to the laws at least. Even then there was still gross injustice as all the practice pitches belonged to the so called higher teams, no entry !! The higher team players had a economic head start, even if the not so lucky players some how trained and excelled in ill equipped government pitches, when it came to the time for national selection( read power and opportunities), they were back stabbed again and again as most of the board members were "different" from them. But one thing was true, players from these teams had numbers and votes on their side, some visionary cricketers came up with tweaked rules to help them establish themselves to an equal level with the other teams in few years. Hence, the new rules were made and implemented. Initially the response was slow so the time frame was extended and then the rules became part of the game so reversion proposals would mean sacking of the board (read electoral defeat). Those days the rules were for a minority,around 20% of the teams, so the others really did not care, they still had lot of influence and men in the right places, they could beat those lesser teams any day any where even with the law protecting the others.
Enter the new era of cricketing, players in the cities no longer knew what it meant to play in the olden days, they were free and modern, all encompassing at least outwardly due to the fear of recuperation from the society. But, various dispirited practices still went on in rural pitches away from the eye of the rules. Even still it was fair enough and every one was happy, at least a majority of them. But the National Board is never happy, because it has get re-elected and for that it has to do something different every time, this time around it decided to pull out some old ( read 20 yr old ) statistical record of semi backward teams and decided to to create new rules for 27% of them O_o . The new category of teams were ecstatic and before the others could react the resolution was passed. Slowly, as the new rules were implemented, the unreserved (like the term :P ) felt the cringe, but, that is what the resolution aimed at right to empower the weak we need to disarm the strong??, or else whats the point ?? but any way they started revolting and creating a mess, but unfortunately for them their long established political influence could not help them this time and they were soon lulled into silence. But, the young players could not remain silent, not when they had Facebook accounts, they were going to "voice their views" and bring down this undemocratic Board using "likes". Some teams felt they too must be treated backward and demanded reservation, there is still lot of agitation on these issues. This is the real scenario of the example given by Mr. Premji now you can assess the true picture.
When this article came up, the young unreserved junta gleefully shared it, each with a snug sarcastically outraged comment, which they don't mean to intend ( i'm sure !! ). The very fact that these guys are able to share the post makes them a minority in the country and it reflects upon the opportunities and advantages they possess, so i ask them to stop crying and buckle up to face the truth. Reservation is a fact and you have to face it !! I remind each one of the ill informed fools out there that a reservation candidate does not mean in any way under trained or brain dead candidate, its a wrong perception unfortunately that even the most educated people have. One more myth is that reservation candidates are stealing the jobs and seats of unreserved classes, it not true they are just being protected so that their jobs and seats aren't stolen.
It may be true that my views may not have a political, social or even ethical insight but I know one thing that works in this world and that is karma, and its a bitch ( sorry for the expletive used it as using such language is the in thing after Delhi Belly). I tell you all unreserved cry babies out there, your fore fathers got away with all theirs deeds and injustices, you should bear their burden now and suffer after all you did inherit their wealth and prestige without complaint. I feel that that reservation for the backward classes should and am sure will be continued in the future. Long live Reservation \m/, Long live India !!
P.S. : I remember one day,I was young still naive,I went to play cricket on the terrace of my friend's house, we had a nice game ,some fun time and good laughs too. Tired from the game, I asked him for a glass of water, he hesitantly went down stairs but after a while came back empty handed. The reason he gave me is still etched in my mind," my grand mom says that offering you water will destroy the purity of the household and i ought too take a bath now". I need no other reason to support any action to show these people their place under the sun, and however unjustified and screwed up the plan may be, I'm in !!
Comments invited ... and no offense to Mr. Premji, he is an inspiration for me too !!
I also eagerly await the release of Prakash Jha's film on the same subject.
