The Castists or The Elitists
His words:
Let us for a moment pause to reflect what it is that for which we would like to be remembered by the future generations. Will we be remembered for how many churches our generation has added, will we be remembered for how many mosques our generation has added, will we be remembered for how many temples our generation has added or will we be remembered for how many gurudwaras our generation has added? No, not at all. We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with our civilizations heritage."
He further added these beautiful lines to his speech
“Oh Almighty, create thoughts and actions in the minds of the people of my nation, so that they live united.
Light the minds of the religious leaders of my country to evolve a bridge among religions with Compassion and Love.
Embed the thought 'Nation is bigger than the individual or party' in the minds of the leaders.
May God, bless my people to work and transform the country into a prosperous nation in a decade."
Clearly testifying the fact the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is really a visionary in the truest of sense. I can only hope that our politicians assimilate a modicum of “Wisdom” (Buddhi) from this great man.
Looking at the current Quota Quandary one sees The Indian society as clearly bifurcated into two extremely opposite factions, they are The Castists and The Elitists. The Castists backed by the politicians, the pro-reservationists and The Elitists backed by the youth-for-equality, the pro-merit and anti-quota supporters. Both the groups shouting out loud to prove their point and more importantly trying to prove the other wrong. The one thing, which worries me the most at this time, is the Hatred of each group towards the other, which can be easily seen in thousands of blogs, protests and debates taking place all over the country.
It is just a reminder to all of us that the need of the hour are Compassion and Love, the realization that Nation is bigger than the individual or party. I can only hope that both the groups instead of expressing vehement anger, come out with benign solutions which take the nations interests into consideration and not their own. I hope that rather than thinking on the lines of “what’s good for me” we will think on the lines of “what’s good for us”. The idea that “WE” are the center of the universe was found to be flawed many hundreds of years ago!!.
7 comments:
Heah Heah! :)
good one naidu !
It will be great for us to bring these thoughts into action.
As Far as thoughts are concerned,they are just the byproduct of so many factors.
Once we control those factors,everything will be at its deserving position.
Like shuks says these thoughts need to be brought into action...
Looks like u've given this ample thought and are working for an united India.
Oh, btw I forgot the date u were writing GRE, to go for a Maters in the United States..
:P :P
well written bhadwe!!
but you havn't given your opinion and what is the solution that you think of..you have nicely downplayed it by saying we should come out with a solution that should please 'US' and that is in the interest of NATION..though this looks very pleasnt, i think it's easy to say than done..it's always hard( i say almost impossible) to have an ideal solution..if there existed one i'm sure there wouldn't have been so much debate..so what i think is both "The Castist and The Elitist" are wrong for different reasons..The Castists are of course wrong for known reasons of dividing the society and nourishing castism in the country and repeating the same mistake our ancestors committed long time back...But the big thing is to prove that The elitists are also wrong..superficially it looks they are logical and reasonble but is is fact that indian society is divided in casts and some casts are weaker and socially and economically backward than others..you talk of merit when everyone gets equal opportunity of basic education and other needs...though i belong to upward community i think we need to have some reservation for the economically backward but not on the basis of casts..but again the question arises who is economically backward? how do we determine this? the no. is more in backward casts but you cann't deny there is also considerable no. of economically backward in upper casts too..so i think it's better too have a legal, factual economic survey rather than cast survey..i'm sure this is not the ideal solution..it has lots of difficultis..but may be it;s one of the solutions
Well said naidu... But what i feel is this is what we have been learning since our childhood. Everyone of us has this written in some corner of r minds. These words compassion n love n nation being greater n "us" rather than "me" are all feel-good stuff. However the call of the hour is to actuate them.
Hope this post of urs is ur honest attempt to personify these thoughts. Love n compassion for all... even for 'friends of others' :P ...
nice blog naidu!!
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