378 - MERITOCRACY VS RESERVATION SAGA,

If one thing gets on my nerves more than anything is people born with silver spoons in their mouths talking up "Meritocracy and condemning Reservation"  Will come to that Later right at the end so you know what triggered this article.

India was a beautiful country since Independence until Rajiv Gandhis assassination on 21st May 1991. 1947 to 1991 were 44 golden years of growth for India, I know because I was born in 1946 just after WWII and just before India's Independence. I have lived & seen with my own eyes what India was in the 50's and what it was until the 90's.

The transformation and growth of a nation burdened with a huge illiterate and impoverished population to a country that produced the best engineers, technologists, software specialists, doctors and nurses with a huge Global demand. It is not the Country or the Politicians who deserve the Credit. It is us Indians who deserve the credit and we the Alumni who deserve the credit

These people were sought after by all nations including racial supremacist nations like Australia. Not only that, the demand for Indian Labour force in the middle east was unprecedented.

According to a Ministry of External Affairs report, there are 32 million NRIs and PIOs residing outside India and overseas Indians comprise world's largest overseas diaspora. Every year 2.5 million (25 lakhs) Indians migrate overseas, which is the highest annual number of migrants in the world. A Whooping 32 Million and that is more than the populations of Australia and New Zealand put together. About 3 Million in Saudi Arabia alone

Indians generally take work life a bit easy when in India especially Public servants who know they will get paid whether they worked or not. 

It was not uncommon for Govt Babu's including school teachers & office clerks to sign in and go do a second job some where as a shop keeper to earn some extra money. 

Indians Loved Govt Jobs as it gave security for life and a guaranteed pension until death including a pension for the spouse. 

The same Indians, when they went abroad virtually became  workaholics to impress their white Bosses or the Sheiks of the middle east. 

Of course every businessman likes a work horse and patted and gave these work horses some carrots making them, work harder. 

Yes Indians abroad are intelligent work horses allowing them to rise and become CEOs. CFO's, COO's in MNCs (something that Indians in India do not realise is that Asians are of similar caliber or even better workers than Indians and better in business and making money)

As for the IIT-Success story I don't have to write about it as the world knows India's best Export was IIT Graduates as seen from this 60 Minutes Episode that follows

More than anything in this world, irrespective of caste creed or religion, I must say we had all become INDIANS at Heart during this golden period from 1947 to 1991

The best aspect of my studies at IIT Madras was the "National Integration", having classmates from nooks and corners of India with different mother tongues. All of us bonded as Indians though there was a small minority of Introverts who mixed only with their kind based on language spoken or religious supremacy.

To me as a Loyal Indian by Birth 1947 to 1991 were Golden Years in all aspects and I am especially proud of how the Indian Armed Forces smashed the Pakistan Army and enabled the formation of Bangladesh, as Bengalis Muslims had zilch in Common with the Pashtoons of West Pakistan. 

Hats off to Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw and many classmates of mine who went to NDA became Fighter Pilots and served the Nation in this War.

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His active military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in World War II.

This military success would not have been possible but for India's Iron Lady of a similar mould as British PM Margaret Thatcher PM Indira Gandhi the first female PM of a male dominated, Hindu Majority Country that practiced Sathi, of forcing the wife into the funeral pyre with her dead husband until 1987.

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on December 4, 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.'

Despite the Ban, Villagers say that on September 4, 1987, after her husband's death, Roop Kanwar recited the Gayatri Mantra, dressed up in solah shringaar (16 adornments) while thousands of villagers from Divrala and neighbouring villages took out her shobha yatra throughout the village, and then did sati.

India was perhaps the most misogynistic (Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is hatred or contempt for women or girls. It is a form of sexism used to keep women at a lower social status than men. Women who reject subordination are punished by misogyny.) population ruled by the British and needed stalwarts like Raja Ram Manohar Roy who helped abolish Sati

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I am shocked to read that "Women who committed sati were said to have died chaste, which, people believed, meant she would have good karma and a much better life in her next birth. 

But this justification didn’t work for Brahmin women as they already belonged to the highest caste, so karmically they couldn’t benefit from sati and thus did not have to practise it.

(Cunning Upper Caste Dominance)

This is a sign of meritocracy is it not ?

How Cunning were these upper caste  Hindu's ?

The Same Uppercaste Hindus Complain about Burqas enforced by Islam. I see it as hypocricy

Click hear to Read about the History of Sati

When I migrated to Australia in 1976, The Minute I noticed something nice, my heart would be telling me wouldn't it be nice to have this in India. The Main thing I was drawn to was Law and Order. No One is above the Law in Australia. A High Court judge was sent to jail for a speeding offence he tried to dodge by saying some one else was driving the car despite the speeding camera Photo showing his face. We had a Premier (Chief Minister0 of New South Wales who was forced to resign because he did not disclose that he had received an expensive bottle of wine that cost $3500.

In Contrast law and order in India does not apply to Indians with Money or Power. A Cricketing Super star can crash his Ferrari and blame it of an Old driver of his and the pollice beat a poor man mercilessly for petty stuff, whilst standing arms folded to some Rich man or Corrupt Politician

1991 to 2014:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Good - 

Liberalisation of the Licence Raj

25 years of liberalisation: A glimpse of India’s growth in 14 charts (Click to Read Article)

The Bad:

Failures of Liberalisation 

Seven Failures of Economic Liberalisation

The Ugly:

Pathetic Governance under a PM who was a Rubber Stamp ex Public servant

and CORRUPTION in all CAPITAL letters. There was not one Govt undertaking that was not linked to a scam

UPA report card: 

Nine years, nine scamsUPA report card: Nine years, nine scams

This is just tip of the ice berg. India had become the Nation of Alibaba and 4000 thieves (I say four thousand to include all politicians in central and state govts )

Indians until 1991 were not bothered about Politics and Governance as the average man on the street would say in Tamil   

the 'Raman aandal enna……Ravannan aandal enna' mentality (it does not matter whether the ruler is Rama or Ravana) will not help our people.

By 2014 Indians who did not bother about politics woke up to the reality and became aware that the nation was going down the gurgler and Congress Party needs to be dumped if we had to get rid of the thieves robbing the Country Blind

BJP under Vajpayyee blew their opportunities and I am not sure why as Vajpayee was a REAL NETA.

How Atal Vajpayee Lost No Confidence Motion by One Vote

This is even more interesting

How Atal Bihari Vajpayee ended BJP's untouchability

(This is a must Read article Folks)

26th May 2014: THE NEW YUGA

After the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance won a landslide in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014. 

He became the first Prime Minister born after India's independence from the British Empire in 1947.

India as a Nation was Confused just like I was. One one hand the nation was celebrating the demise of the Congress Party and on the other hand were apprehensive about the BJP leadership. It was not Atal Vajpayee but Narendra Modi who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat during the Gujarat Pogrom in 2002

(Click on Link above to read all about Gujarat Riots)