What Keeps Me Worried These Days...

Here is a post I made to the WASHINGTON POST’S POSTGLOBAL discussion forum recently:

N P CHEKKUTTY, CALICUT, INDIA:

What kept me worried this week has been the way the Indian legal system revealed its weaknesses and elitist bias, through a series of judicial orders that went against the oppressed classes in Indian society like the dalits and the tribal population. The court says that the creamy layer, those who have a decent income in these sections, shall be denied access to the government postings through the system of reservation. But the fact is, in educational institutions and government posts, there are often less number of qualified people from these sections to fill the vacancies that belong to them. Now when those who may stand a chance to enter these offices are kept out because they are economically well off, it would mean the Indian administrative system will be filled by the upper caste sections.
Surely a recipe for disaster because already the backward classes are on the brink of revolt. They have taken up arms in many areas.

N P Chekkutty


And there were some responses like the following:

IF YOU ARE TRYING TO PAINT INDIA AS BEING A GOOD PLACE TO BE FROM:
I suggest that you turn your tone to honesty.
as right now you look more primitive than those you attempt to stain with your bile...
at least I shoot at ugliness, you're like a cholera infected child.

(www.newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal)

Interesting, isn't it?