Quotas.

I remember having commented after watching Rang De Basanti, that the two scenes that were too far stretched were the ones where police begins lathi-charge on the mass gathered to ask for an answer from the defense minister and the last scene where the lead characters are attacked in the AIR building, against public opinion. I believed that any government would not be so atrocious against the people it has pledged to serve-and that too the people who stand for the truth.

Past two days happenings have altered, nay, reverted my convictions, after students rallying against quotas in Delhi and Mumbai were lathi-charged. The Mumbai police commissioner gave a statement that no such thing happened. I have no words for him and everyone of the bas***ds sitting in the State Assemblies and the Parliament. No political party has come up and openly opposed the introduction of the quotas. The BJP said it would raise the issue of student atrocities. But why not core issue-that of reservations? Even those politicians from the ruling alliance who I had some respect for, viz., Manmohan Singh & Chidambaram, have been silent-or at the most might have given some inconsequntial statements. But is not "being silent" the purpose and duty for both of them, under Her Majesty SR (Sonia Regina)?

It is good that the students are protesting-they are not taking the bullshit the government (read, in particular, Congress, with a spectacular history of doing this) has been throwing at them. I have hardly ever been so angry, and frustrated. And It is now that I feel very strongly that I should be present there. It is this frustration which is more difficult to bear-to watch all this haappening from a place 180 degrees away from my country and realizing my inability to do anything to prevent it, except for signing online petitions.

tamaso ma jyotirgamaya