indiandoc
05-15-2006, 09:56 PM
This is to inform you about the current situation regarding the reservation issue in INDIA
The facts: Seven hundred medical students, disturbed
by certain issues, express their desire to meet the
first citizen of the country, proceed peacefully
towards the Prime Minister's office, are manhandled,
tear gassed and brutally assaulted by the law
enforcers of the city. Some are detained in police
stations, and some land up in emergency room of
hospitals seeking treatment for injuries. The PMO
choses to remain silent. The residents and the
students join hands and declare strike. The media
takes the issue in a luke-warm fashion and plays the
devil's advocate, projecting the striking doctors as
the root cause of the patients' suffering. Peacefully
protesting doctors in Mumbai were brutally
lathicharged infront of the Governor's house. Some
media channels highlighted the atrocities. The Police
officials accused the students of damaging property
and dismissed the issue as minor commotion. Friends,
welcome to Democrazy!
Are medical students of the top five medical colleges
of the country, arguably some of the best brains that
the country has in the current generation? Is it
justified to treat them as common men? If yes, then
like everyone demands their rights and voices their
opinion in form of strikes, violence and hooliganism,
so they are justified in their desire to make their
voice heard. If no, then was the brutal handling of
the youth justified? Please consider they are not even
full grown adults. A medical student is only 17 when
he joins college. What message do you convey to these
children when you assault them brutally, tear gas them
or hit them with water canons? And for what objective?
Is our Prime Minister so unapproachable to the best
minds of the nation for an issue which concerns them?
How does the current government then try to identify
with the masses of the nation? Is our political think
tank so far away from the common man that to meet the
PM our students need to face physical and mental
humiliation? If the medical students are not our
masses, then who is the common man?
More than 24 hours have passed after the students
tried to meet the PM and were chased and beaten away.
Yet the PM remains silent. No statement has been
issued by the PM office regarding the issue raised or
the sad turn of events. Is our Prime Minister,
incapable, apathetic, indifferent or a mute spectator?
Does he await orders from other sources, (divine
intervention) to open his mouth and speak? Like the
HRD minister, the PMO would probably offer an apology
for the misbehavior meted out to the students at the
hands of the law enforcing agencies when the office
opens on Monday. Has this become a mockery? First you
slap an individual and then two days later, sweetly
apologize and then request to forget and forgive. The
doctors are expected to attend to emergencies on
weekends, but the PMO has no emergencies. It remains
silent over the weekend. Of course it is probably a
matter too trivial to respond on. Or is the PM waiting
for directives on what he has to say. It is also
possible that the speechwriter has taken ill and is
not finding any doctor who will attend to him. The HRD
Minister had comfortably said that he was unaware that
students wanted to meet him, and expressed his sorrow
that police had mistreated them. A similar answer
could be expected from the PM and the Governor of
Mumbai. If their information system is so defunct that
they don't get a message from outside their gates for
24 hours, what are they sitting in office for and how
are they managing the entire country?
The media focuses attention on suffering patients
outside hospitals. The core issue has largely been
cold-shouldered. The double standards adopted by the
media are clearly evident, and they wait to capture
the most emotional story to catch the prime slot for
maximum viewership. God forbid if there is mortality
outside the hospital, be sure that you will catch the
eventuality on the news channels with the
sensationalization even before the calamity has
actually occurred.
The patient suffering seems to be the sole
responsibility of the doctors who are on strike. They
have moral, physical and emotional responsibility of
all the suffering caused. The silence from the PM
office is shattering. There is not even a word from
the Prime Minister. Is he following what has long been
our foreign policy, `watching the situation closely'?
Or is this something right out of our gynecology
textbooks, `watchful expectancy'? This is sheer
mockery of the highest office in the country.
Is the faculty of medical colleges and hospitals,
merely supportive or is willing to become an active
participant in the whole issue? Where are the nurses,
and the hospital attendants? What is their role in the
issue and are they supportive or participant? The pool
officers, research staff and the residents of Hospital
administration, are you not doctors? Do you not wish
to favor or support the reservation agitation? Why is
there such deafening silence from the IITs, IIMs and
other intelligentsia of the country? Does the
reservation issue not affect you or bother you? United
we stand divided we fall.
We are creating all the fuss when the certificate for
your reserved status can be obtained in INR 1000 from
any government office in Chandigarh as the news
channels reported. Why don't we all approach such
agents and get ourselves the certificate and thereby
become eligible for the reserved quota?
We are a society that is sitting on a live fuse. Angry
scuffles have become common following minor road
accidents and have given birth to the phenomenon of
`Road Rage'. It will not be a surprise if `Rang de
Basanti' does not remain a mere movie to be watched in
theaters, and the PMO has a serious situation to deal
with if the current one is not serious enough to
provoke comment.
If you really feel for your country then spread the word to all Indians you know by forwarding the following msg addressed to the Prime Minister of India
To,
The Prime Minister
I am by birth a rightful citizen of this sovereign democratic country
whom I call Mother INDIA, the largest democracy in the whole world.
By the constitution of my country I & my other fellow citizens have
equal rights but from the last fifty years there had been different
treatment for different sections of the society. At the time of
independence there was poverty every where & large section of society
was underprivileged. At that time Gandhi ji's idea of reservation in
jobs was alright but continuing it for the last 55 yrs is ridiculous.
No amount of spoon feeding can make any body independent. You make
your child to stand on his own feet to walk. You don't give him
crèches to walk. It is alright to help the down trodden to let them
stand on their feet, to make them independent by giving them free
primary or secondary education, giving subsidy in food, clothes,
giving them loans to establish their own business but making
reservation in higher education, high profile jobs which one does not
deserve, is making our own country weak. We already have taken too
much of time to reach to this level in world order & by these
policies we may take another fifty years to become super power. These
wrong policies of the Congress Govt. like license, quota system have
already taken its toll & by bringing undeserving persons in the
institutions which we are proud of would bring down the country
prestige in the world. Some of the short sighted politicians already
have squandered the country for so long for their personal gains but
now we are not going to let them do it any more. We are the tax
payers of the country & this country is ours also. We are already
paying some amount from our every single penny of hard earned money
through various taxes & we are ready to pay more even, but there
should be no more reservations in the job or higher educational
institutions. Enough is enough. For your own selfish gains you have
divided the country on caste & religion and now bringing more
reservations in every sphere of life you are making this divide more
severe. Our children who are working so hard to reach to a level are
heart broken when they see some one at that level who does not
deserve it. Such rude shock some times becomes unbearable & they
commit suicide or become mental patient. We can't see this any more
helplessly. I would request the Supreme courts to stop this
reservation policy & help the country to achieve some dignity &
status in the world as soon as possible.
The facts: Seven hundred medical students, disturbed
by certain issues, express their desire to meet the
first citizen of the country, proceed peacefully
towards the Prime Minister's office, are manhandled,
tear gassed and brutally assaulted by the law
enforcers of the city. Some are detained in police
stations, and some land up in emergency room of
hospitals seeking treatment for injuries. The PMO
choses to remain silent. The residents and the
students join hands and declare strike. The media
takes the issue in a luke-warm fashion and plays the
devil's advocate, projecting the striking doctors as
the root cause of the patients' suffering. Peacefully
protesting doctors in Mumbai were brutally
lathicharged infront of the Governor's house. Some
media channels highlighted the atrocities. The Police
officials accused the students of damaging property
and dismissed the issue as minor commotion. Friends,
welcome to Democrazy!
Are medical students of the top five medical colleges
of the country, arguably some of the best brains that
the country has in the current generation? Is it
justified to treat them as common men? If yes, then
like everyone demands their rights and voices their
opinion in form of strikes, violence and hooliganism,
so they are justified in their desire to make their
voice heard. If no, then was the brutal handling of
the youth justified? Please consider they are not even
full grown adults. A medical student is only 17 when
he joins college. What message do you convey to these
children when you assault them brutally, tear gas them
or hit them with water canons? And for what objective?
Is our Prime Minister so unapproachable to the best
minds of the nation for an issue which concerns them?
How does the current government then try to identify
with the masses of the nation? Is our political think
tank so far away from the common man that to meet the
PM our students need to face physical and mental
humiliation? If the medical students are not our
masses, then who is the common man?
More than 24 hours have passed after the students
tried to meet the PM and were chased and beaten away.
Yet the PM remains silent. No statement has been
issued by the PM office regarding the issue raised or
the sad turn of events. Is our Prime Minister,
incapable, apathetic, indifferent or a mute spectator?
Does he await orders from other sources, (divine
intervention) to open his mouth and speak? Like the
HRD minister, the PMO would probably offer an apology
for the misbehavior meted out to the students at the
hands of the law enforcing agencies when the office
opens on Monday. Has this become a mockery? First you
slap an individual and then two days later, sweetly
apologize and then request to forget and forgive. The
doctors are expected to attend to emergencies on
weekends, but the PMO has no emergencies. It remains
silent over the weekend. Of course it is probably a
matter too trivial to respond on. Or is the PM waiting
for directives on what he has to say. It is also
possible that the speechwriter has taken ill and is
not finding any doctor who will attend to him. The HRD
Minister had comfortably said that he was unaware that
students wanted to meet him, and expressed his sorrow
that police had mistreated them. A similar answer
could be expected from the PM and the Governor of
Mumbai. If their information system is so defunct that
they don't get a message from outside their gates for
24 hours, what are they sitting in office for and how
are they managing the entire country?
The media focuses attention on suffering patients
outside hospitals. The core issue has largely been
cold-shouldered. The double standards adopted by the
media are clearly evident, and they wait to capture
the most emotional story to catch the prime slot for
maximum viewership. God forbid if there is mortality
outside the hospital, be sure that you will catch the
eventuality on the news channels with the
sensationalization even before the calamity has
actually occurred.
The patient suffering seems to be the sole
responsibility of the doctors who are on strike. They
have moral, physical and emotional responsibility of
all the suffering caused. The silence from the PM
office is shattering. There is not even a word from
the Prime Minister. Is he following what has long been
our foreign policy, `watching the situation closely'?
Or is this something right out of our gynecology
textbooks, `watchful expectancy'? This is sheer
mockery of the highest office in the country.
Is the faculty of medical colleges and hospitals,
merely supportive or is willing to become an active
participant in the whole issue? Where are the nurses,
and the hospital attendants? What is their role in the
issue and are they supportive or participant? The pool
officers, research staff and the residents of Hospital
administration, are you not doctors? Do you not wish
to favor or support the reservation agitation? Why is
there such deafening silence from the IITs, IIMs and
other intelligentsia of the country? Does the
reservation issue not affect you or bother you? United
we stand divided we fall.
We are creating all the fuss when the certificate for
your reserved status can be obtained in INR 1000 from
any government office in Chandigarh as the news
channels reported. Why don't we all approach such
agents and get ourselves the certificate and thereby
become eligible for the reserved quota?
We are a society that is sitting on a live fuse. Angry
scuffles have become common following minor road
accidents and have given birth to the phenomenon of
`Road Rage'. It will not be a surprise if `Rang de
Basanti' does not remain a mere movie to be watched in
theaters, and the PMO has a serious situation to deal
with if the current one is not serious enough to
provoke comment.
If you really feel for your country then spread the word to all Indians you know by forwarding the following msg addressed to the Prime Minister of India
To,
The Prime Minister
I am by birth a rightful citizen of this sovereign democratic country
whom I call Mother INDIA, the largest democracy in the whole world.
By the constitution of my country I & my other fellow citizens have
equal rights but from the last fifty years there had been different
treatment for different sections of the society. At the time of
independence there was poverty every where & large section of society
was underprivileged. At that time Gandhi ji's idea of reservation in
jobs was alright but continuing it for the last 55 yrs is ridiculous.
No amount of spoon feeding can make any body independent. You make
your child to stand on his own feet to walk. You don't give him
crèches to walk. It is alright to help the down trodden to let them
stand on their feet, to make them independent by giving them free
primary or secondary education, giving subsidy in food, clothes,
giving them loans to establish their own business but making
reservation in higher education, high profile jobs which one does not
deserve, is making our own country weak. We already have taken too
much of time to reach to this level in world order & by these
policies we may take another fifty years to become super power. These
wrong policies of the Congress Govt. like license, quota system have
already taken its toll & by bringing undeserving persons in the
institutions which we are proud of would bring down the country
prestige in the world. Some of the short sighted politicians already
have squandered the country for so long for their personal gains but
now we are not going to let them do it any more. We are the tax
payers of the country & this country is ours also. We are already
paying some amount from our every single penny of hard earned money
through various taxes & we are ready to pay more even, but there
should be no more reservations in the job or higher educational
institutions. Enough is enough. For your own selfish gains you have
divided the country on caste & religion and now bringing more
reservations in every sphere of life you are making this divide more
severe. Our children who are working so hard to reach to a level are
heart broken when they see some one at that level who does not
deserve it. Such rude shock some times becomes unbearable & they
commit suicide or become mental patient. We can't see this any more
helplessly. I would request the Supreme courts to stop this
reservation policy & help the country to achieve some dignity &
status in the world as soon as possible.