the strike black mail!
Of late there have been so many strikes in our country...by unions, by individuals, by organisations...
Madame Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan's on an indefinite hunger strike for the cause of the displacement of the people of Narmada valley due to the dam surrection..
SBI staff union and the ancillaries were on a 5 day strike.
And now an internet forward is doing the rounds. read on.
" Usually don't forward stuff. But this one's worth it. *** One of us have shown courage. Protest against 49.5% reservation in colleges-AMIT KUMAR GARG, 2nd Year Aero IITB on indefinitely long hunger strike. & if still not heard AMIT will exercise self immolation (burn himself) in front of Main Building IITB. Wake up my friends and contribute by forwarding this message "
Wake up?? hello??!!! What do we wake up to? Some guy getting all furious about the Govt's decisions and trying out all nautanki of a hunger strike? Alright. I must confess we are all furious. But I really dont think a hunger strike is a solution in any which way! And our guy has threatened self immolation if not "heard". I think self immolation is the worst form of coercion, and that itself is a crime.
Ms. Medha Patkar is one one of the most revered and proactive women in India, today. She has been a constant activist of the NBA and has worked for the cause giving her all into it. She has been working for the cause of the people along the Narmada valley selflessly and we all appreciate her motives. But when she called an indefinite hunger strike, it came as a blow. No, am not against a hunger strike as such, but my question is why should she be the only one doing it? Its not for her that she's fighting the govt regarding the narmada issue, but all the people who've been displaced because of govt action. I stongly feel that this could have been a revolution of sorts, had she enrolled all the people she was working for along the narmada. Fine, she'll go on a hunger strike, but her people are going to eat to their hearts' content? This in no way is going to affect the govt lemme tell u. Okay madam is on a hunger strike. So what?
When are we going to wake upto her? When she dies of hunger?
Similar is the case of ourman from IITB fasting indefinitely for the cause against reservations. We all are upset about it, and with due respects all the sc/bc/obc quota, we do believe, we must have an equal opportunity in any field and such reservatiions are clearly defying the same.
This IITB guy, being young and having that kind of energy, could have enrolled scores of his peers into his concern, and it could have been a major transformation of a protest into a revolution. And such things as self-immolation are the worst examples of black mail and coercion and only show how weak we could get if the demands are not met.
If one feels so strongly about an issue and nothing is being done about it, do it yourself. Not black mailing the authorities in ways such as this, but by creating an awareness and by snow-balling it into a major revolution that enrols even the authorities that we question today.
Madame Medha Patkar of the Narmada Bachao Andolan's on an indefinite hunger strike for the cause of the displacement of the people of Narmada valley due to the dam surrection..
SBI staff union and the ancillaries were on a 5 day strike.
And now an internet forward is doing the rounds. read on.
" Usually don't forward stuff. But this one's worth it. *** One of us have shown courage. Protest against 49.5% reservation in colleges-AMIT KUMAR GARG, 2nd Year Aero IITB on indefinitely long hunger strike. & if still not heard AMIT will exercise self immolation (burn himself) in front of Main Building IITB. Wake up my friends and contribute by forwarding this message "
Wake up?? hello??!!! What do we wake up to? Some guy getting all furious about the Govt's decisions and trying out all nautanki of a hunger strike? Alright. I must confess we are all furious. But I really dont think a hunger strike is a solution in any which way! And our guy has threatened self immolation if not "heard". I think self immolation is the worst form of coercion, and that itself is a crime.
Ms. Medha Patkar is one one of the most revered and proactive women in India, today. She has been a constant activist of the NBA and has worked for the cause giving her all into it. She has been working for the cause of the people along the Narmada valley selflessly and we all appreciate her motives. But when she called an indefinite hunger strike, it came as a blow. No, am not against a hunger strike as such, but my question is why should she be the only one doing it? Its not for her that she's fighting the govt regarding the narmada issue, but all the people who've been displaced because of govt action. I stongly feel that this could have been a revolution of sorts, had she enrolled all the people she was working for along the narmada. Fine, she'll go on a hunger strike, but her people are going to eat to their hearts' content? This in no way is going to affect the govt lemme tell u. Okay madam is on a hunger strike. So what?
When are we going to wake upto her? When she dies of hunger?
Similar is the case of ourman from IITB fasting indefinitely for the cause against reservations. We all are upset about it, and with due respects all the sc/bc/obc quota, we do believe, we must have an equal opportunity in any field and such reservatiions are clearly defying the same.
This IITB guy, being young and having that kind of energy, could have enrolled scores of his peers into his concern, and it could have been a major transformation of a protest into a revolution. And such things as self-immolation are the worst examples of black mail and coercion and only show how weak we could get if the demands are not met.
If one feels so strongly about an issue and nothing is being done about it, do it yourself. Not black mailing the authorities in ways such as this, but by creating an awareness and by snow-balling it into a major revolution that enrols even the authorities that we question today.
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for info's sake...we had a protest march in campus a few days back on the reservation issue. had a very good turnout considering the fact tht we are all lazy bums and had to walk almost 6 kms for that :D
The reservation controversy has caught the entire nation in a fix.Many people are protesting against the whole isuue in the manner know to them,for instance recently in mumbai people living in a certain building switched off their lights for 20mins to protest aginst the whole issue.does it make any sense or any difference to the people concerned.lets not be sentimental and look at the issue in the lager perspective and take the message to the people.
The whole issue is being projected in such a manner that the upper castes are against the dalits or the obc's,whereas exactly the opposite is the truth
The significant point to be projected to make this a more meaningful campgain is to carry the following message :
each and every individual is fully capable of achieving success and doing the necessary tasks to accomplish their goals,be it upper caste or dalit or obc or whatever it is.
U just cant recognise a person which caste he is ,just by seeing him.
Everyone has the capability to perform,except that if chances rather than oppurtunities are given easily then the need to put the requisite effort gets diminished and then as a result, the person putting in the required effort is not rewarded.
It is generally human tendency to opt for the easy option ,so if things are given on a platter nobody would work hard for getting there.
So let us all join hands in the best possible manner and create opportunities and not chances (chance is a matter of luck)especially for the children of this nation in the field of primary education ,so that they turn to out to be better citizens.
Regards
Chaitanya
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