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@vidya let me tell you one personal experience. It's a sensitive topic, but I cannot but put it as I felt as a 18 yr old that day. It is regarding reservations. It was when I wrote entrance I started hearing abt reservations and realized since I belong to forward community I do not have reservation. Based on my rank I got electrical though I very much wanted electronics and communication.
When I joined college what I saw a girl who was atleast 6000-7000 rank behind me, who had scrapped through intermediate was in electronics. No she didnt come from any poor family. She came from a rich business family who had a driver to drop her to college, while I belonged to upper middle class family and was commuting my bus. I had merit entrance rank in top 2000, more than 85% marks for intermediate still I was asked to go to electrical, while in the name of reservation someone who lacked merit was in electronics. There was enough anger in me to burn the system. I had cried also. But I put that behind me and studied and landed a good job.
System has lot of problems. If you focus on the problem, if you keep on harping I am a victim, you will burn in anger, looking at your shortcomings destroying yourself and others. It is because of something that happened in the past. You cannot change it. Look at the present and what you got.
If you dont get MBBS it is not end of the world. There are other options to study including para medical courses. Fight it out, come to a position where you hold the power to change the system, then you change the system. Get the power. You can always say system is wrong, system did this to me. Fight within the system. Get in the mud and dirty your hands and rise like a lotus bringing positive change. Dont stand at the shore and shout i am a victim, system did this to me.
I can never accept system did this to me because as I said, I have come across live examples of people who had fought within the system. Yes system sucks, but suicide or becoming victim will not change system. It will only become a news item.
That incident did make me research a lot on caste system, reservation policy of India, mandal commission, you can say anything and everything about reservation instead of sitting and complaining about it. Instead today I use the knowledge to help the students who genuinely need the benefit of reservation, but are unaware of it. I would not have been in a position to tell those students about scholarship schemes available for students from backward communities who are in dire need of them. Because reservation benefits does not reach the beneficiary, scholarships dont reach the beneficiary it is taken up by the creamy layer in those communities who does nothing for their brethren who desperately needs that help.
It is not that reservation is bad, it is the way it is implemented causes social inequality as deserving are denied justice.
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