Comments on: VP Singh is Dead

By: amit

amit — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:32:13 +0000

I look upon him as a man who widened the already existing chasm between the various sections of our society. Any toddler would have seen the aftereffects of the decision he was making but somehow he chose to ignore them.
I wish politicians like him and many more would have never existed. Atleast we would have lived peacefully.

By: shankara

shankara — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:14:18 +0000

GOOD THE B**T**D DIED !ONE SECULARIST DEAD EQUALS 100 DEAD ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!
MAY THE SECULARIST ENJOY WITH 6 VIRGINS IN HEAVEN!

By: amreekandesi

amreekandesi — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:52:29 +0000

Doc – He was, but one of the so many blots that we have had. Now that he is dead, i wouldnt say more, like Prerna said.

Shefaly – You raised several important points in your comment. Of course, not all blame for the reservation related issues can be put on just one person. There were many events leading to how things eventually shaped up. I also believe that reservation by itself was not evil, but how it was used by Indian politicans and people (case in point the recent drama by Gujjars) that led to a lot of ill will.

BTW, noticed the phrase ‘burden of the accident of birth’. Interesting expression!

By: prerna

prerna — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:42:24 +0000

I second Rambodoc’s views. Infact I would like to use harsher language but one should not use bad language for a dead man so I will keep quiet.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:36:19 +0000

AD:

It is all too well for us to blame politicians in the 1980s and the 1990s while not casting any judgement over those in the 1960s who chose to ignore Dr Ambedkar’s warning that if reservations continued beyond 15 years after independence, they would irreparably damage India. Perhaps that is too far from our minds! People like VP Singh did nothing water and nurture a poison ivy planted many years ago for petty vote politics.

If we wish to be fair in interpreting events, and in preventing/ eradicating ills that plague us, then we need to take into account the entire spatial and temporal context and history.

My friends and I lost half a semester in engineering due to Mandal Commission protests but just as something is a statistic to those far away, it wasn’t the case here. Some of my best friends in college and since then are OBC women. Most of them had the high ranks and the choice to reject the reservation seats and they did. But come Mandal Commission, and some people from the so-called upper classes chose to throw abuse and blame at the same girls. If this is upper class behaviour, I would rather be a sweeper in my next birth! Needless to say most left India immediately after, never to return. Their enviably stellar career trajectories, sans the burden of the accident of birth, over which they had no control, are a testimony to what we lose by tarring all with the same brush… I am proud to have known them and to be humble in the knowledge that their life always has been harder than I can ever imagine.

By: Poonam

Poonam — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:13:15 +0000

yes, one man whose reservation policies I have come to loathe. Sadly, this has been breeding ground to reserve jobs on basis of region, religion and also gender other than caste.

I noticed his death but decided not to pay attention to him.

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By: Rambodoc

Rambodoc — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:19:08 +0000

And, if I may so, one of the great blots on the political landscape of India. A man who dressed the worst motives in moralistic robes.