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The rescue of a 25-yr-old woman last month has once again brought focus on a centuries-old practice that has morphed into a social evil whose victims suffer deeply.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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Most hilarious part of this whole argument by Yogendra is: On one side he says he we don’t know the count on the other side he says general category is 20%. If you know the count of general category then you already know count of OBC. While making his argument he chooses assumptions that suits him.
P.S: I am not ‘for’ or ‘against’ the reservation. I am just analyzing this article purely on factual basis. I simply want to highlight that the author has a bias just like everyone.
Caste base census is a regressive demand coming from Yogendra Yadav. When we got independence our goal was to develop into casteless secular society. We preferred psedo secularism by ignoring Art.44 of constitution. Now comes from intellectuals like Yadav for caste identity which is so demeaning. All identities should go except Indian identity and all benefits from government should be based on economic criteria. Caste based politics have ruined the social fabric and it shouldn’t be further torn by conceeding the demands of Yogendra Yadav. Sports and military are the two wings where merit is the only criteria and we could see what those wings acheived. So many Yadavs are there in cricket team. Latest bowling hero Mohammad from Hyderabad is there because of his merit and not on minority quota. We lost enough of Hargobind Khoranas, Satya Nadella, indira Nooyi, Sundar Pitchiahs to the merit recognising America. Please put an end a mirage called social justice through caste recognition. Yogendra Yadav’s suggestion is a worse remedy and lead to further fragmentation of society as every caste leader will fliat his own party as is seen in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The first few lines which posit the Brahmanas as the ruling caste is something of an obsolete cliche. Or was Yadav talking about the US a Judges and Generals tend to do? I couldn’t get past this line to swallow Yadav’s fellow OBC, Modi as PM.
Reservation exists because social discrimination exists. If social discrimination is done away with , reservations would no longer be needed.
If you look at all yhe comments posted before bashing this article you will find that most of them are from upper castes. So, they are leaving no stones unturned to justify the doing away of reservation. The fact that only the upper castes are able to write here is further evidence that only they have emjoyed the privileges of education and therefore while constituting only 20 percent of the population they enjoy 80 percent of the positions in this country. This country needs 80 percent reservation where minprities should also be included in order to do away with the venom of brahmanism.
I am a dalit Hindu, we have many issues but don’t ever give lesson as a Muslim on Brahminism. Should I start teaching you about ethics of your Prophet? You guys were allowed to stay even after partition in hope that you will embrace secularism but your begging for reservations as minority shows your communalism. Go to Pakistan and Bangladesh and fight for minority rights of Dalit Hindus remaining there. After Jinnah there will never be communal reservations for you people in India.
Becoming relevant is the only aim of some activists. It is a given that anybody who has the progress of the Nation and its people in focus in all their activities should be encouraged to do so, as most of us get caught up in our own things and it is too late by the time we realise we can do some things for others too.
The motivation for such social service is wholly and truly reflected in the intend. When the intend is only to bring down Governments, the acts and utterances of such activists becomes suspect. For instance I do not see such activists continually exhort the public to follow traffic rules or in these times to follow appropriate COVID behaviour. If this were done by such “popular” activists, death and hardships of a lot of Indians could have been avoided. It would have helped to hold up the economy too.
Tailpiece: I have my complete respect and support for activism. If only they were channeled usefully!!!
Quota and votebank politics has got to a level where it is no longer possible to pander to a votebank without harming another votebank. OBC enumeration will only fracture this even further and cause more problems to the politicians than resolve any issues at ground level. The only way for the politicians as well as India as a whole to dig ourselves out of this hole, is to change the narrative and inspire pride in our individual capabilities and competence. We need a narrative which makes it a matter of pride and assertion of equality for every individual to give up reservation for themselves and their families. This should be accompanied by corresponding reduction in total reservation available. Then hopefully in the next 70 years we can become a meritocratic society
On a rather interesting note upper castes have reservations for thousands of years. Only Brahmins could go to school etc. It’s unfair to compare India with USA because American whites are more humane compared to so called upper castes.
In reality American whites had a knack of advertising on newspaper “the negro named —–is scheduled to be hanged at —-at 4.00PM in the afternoon. All interested are asked to be present. – Ku Klux Klan.”
The idea that other castes were not allowed to read is simply a lie. Anyone could read and write in ancient India, only scriptures were not allowed for lower castes…which are useless anyway, My advice is- get a book from 5th standard and really read its content. A proper education will set you free.
Ramayana and Mahabharata were written by OBC/SC writers, Valmiki and Ved Vyasa. Kalidasa was a shepherd (an OBC again) as per folklore.
So your claims get nailed just like that.
Finally, Yogendra Yadav turns into a full fledged castist politician, that India doesn’t needs.
Congratulations
From the perspective of academic writing, the article starts as communist write-up, moves to typical Brahmin bashing and then attempt to justify further caste division based reservation. Let’s say if 65% are labelled as OBC, 50% as SC/ST, then mathematically there is no general class. This whole reservation based on caste is political instrument. We want to unit country and some journalists are bent upon dividing it further. Now please tell us, how many Brahmin held key position in government in last 30 years? When you get to facts, such article falls apart. Please find some productive topic to write upon. We are sick and tired of this old caste story and the brahminical conspiracy theory.
What the author has missed due to the biased nature of his writing is that an OBC count might actually reveal the improvement in status of lot of OBCs in the middle ranks and dent the reservation politics. A failed logic from a failed leader
I thought he was a farm leader. Now he seems to be an OBC leader.
I believe the real reason for the govt’s actions is to not provide Mr. Yadav with another reason to sit on a dharna.
Constitution calls for affirmative action for social and educationally backward class NOT caste. SC must review it’s judgement wherein it accepted caste and class as synonym. Thereafter, criteria to define other backward class should be decided. Criteria based class definition will be caste neutral and stop the mad rush of more and more caste as OBC just to corner the benefits meant for real needy. Obviously, criteria based class will be dynamic and number will change every year and hence a separate online register should be made so that just like aadhar people can directly get themselves registered as OBC and renew every year so that those advanced to general category can be removed.
How long will you keep on thrusting all governmental failure on general caste. Today generation upper caste is a myth. Take any minor upper caste kid and ask him to name 10 caste in the country, I bet he won’t be able to name even 5. But you want to keep the devide and keep on bashing upper caste. Today’s upper caste is cleaning roads, selling chat pakodi at stalls , I Don’t consider any work as small but you still want to portray them as ruling class when the reality is opposite.
Today a general class candidate gets a govt. Job at the average age of 30 yrs whereas so-called lower caste candidate gets at 23 and on top of it so called lower caste gets promotions in jobs too.
If you just want to wipe out so-called upper caste from the face of India just say it. Don’t give unrealistic and illogical arguments.
Some people are ‘caste-less’ because they are more ‘educated’ and progressive in their mindsets. In that sense they are really ‘privileged’. Author is an Indian advocate of cancel culture.
The caste cencus will lead to more identity based politics and that is simply what this failed politician cum intellectual wants. But the people of India do not want it, neither are they sold to the lie that India is ruled by Brahmins or upper caste. India is mostly ruled by middle class many of whom have caste reservations. There is more social mobility in this country than the author of this article would acknowledge.
It’s very big conspiracy ignoring the basic human rights of OBCs by the dominant upper castes who remain in political and judiciary also.OBCs are cruelly degraded and divided to meet their selfish goals.It’s really not a democracy,in fact a demon cracy.
Mr. Yadav, I have millionaire OBC friends all around me. A few park their swanky cars in front of my house and I cant afford that. It is irony that people like you are not letting India rise above the caste system. And still wants to focus more on castes by including in census and your dirty politics. Brahmins are not ruling country now. OBCs are ruling the country. That is a fact. I can show you thousands of brahmins who are unable to get 2 times meal in India. Please stop reminding people of their caste. Let affirmative actions be based upon economic status instead of social status.
I wonder ask why use a pre classified OBC category, rather ask exact caste. With a clear acceptance of not disclosed / casteless / unknown to responder as an option. This would help to reclassify all Indians properly into caste and link assets, education according to caste groups. I am sure data mining of electronically entered data would help to get answers in fair amount of time. This would help to:
1. Realign caste categories on recent and relevant data
2. Assess whether subcategories can be made for more equitable distribution.
3. Know what proportion of Indians do not have castes (let us assume some of them are upper castes, but people should have an option of choose if they have a caste, and what religion they follow)
4. It mismatch is there in caste and religious following, then we have deeper understanding of how religions in India have caste orders (theoretically such a thing should be absent)
5. Allow provision to automatically generate verifiable caste certificates online based upon the census enumeration.
Some practical issues
What if parents have been from different castes – the child is of which caste (simply paternal? that is simply anti feminist)
Whether options of caste should be pre built or open ended (it is likely that some castes are left out by brahminical or cozily empowered other caste beauraucrats, so give an option of all other castes to be enumerated as well)
Whether the numerical data be closed or open to everyone to take a look. Transparency mandates everyone should have access to the data, inferences may differ.
These cheap and sold out writers want to increase the reservation quota but they never talk about the consequences of these policies on the real deserved talents, never gonna speak about increasing the no of seats in every sector but can freely speak about the so called “Cruel ruling of Brahmins ” though accepting the fact at the same time that even if brahmins are just 20%, but are still carrying on cruelty on others. I mean can you believe that a minority group is being cruel on the majority community which is about 80% according to them. Can there be a better joke than this??
Britishers in India were minority (population wise).
Anyway, you gotta know the definition of the word minority first. Population is just one of the many aspects that are used to determine whether a group is minority or not.
In democracy, majority group always prevails, but not in aristocracy, dictatorship or imperialism. Powerful rules. And electoral democracy, by design, bestows power in majority, which often, but not always, coincides with the largest section of society of a particular caste, religion, race, colour, language etc.
And majority/ minority classification is fundamentally related to pure number according to the above mentioned criteria.
In US and UK, race is self-declaratory. People there are not going around with ‘race’ certificates nor they receive any kind of special treatment when it comes to govt. jobs and education.
“The US, like most multi-racial societies, enumerates race in its census. Britain does it for immigrants by their origin.”
Yogendra Yadav you are far worse than any of the governments you are talking about.
Why not ask people to update/mention their caste in their adhar cards. We will have realtime data about cast/religion about population. No need to wait 10 years for that.
The problem is the Phds. in this country are mostly cut paste artists. So quote “Swedish political scientist Göran Therborn with the title “State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism”. and try to hammer a square peg in a round hole by giving it a spin “What Does the Ruling Caste Do When It Rules? State Apparatuses and State Power under Brahminism in a Constitutional Democracy.”
The lack of originality is the hallmark of the majority of Indian intellegencia in non-objective fields. Brahman bashing sells so write about it. The majority rulers since independence have been non-brahmins, but the bashing goes on.
They can’t the quote some thing more relevant from our old scriptures possibly for the fear that the originators could be brahmin and of course the cut-paste will ne be easy .
What happened to the agitation of the rich farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western UP? Their great leader, Shri Yogendra Yadav seems to abandoned them in the summer heat. He is now moved on to teaching this government how to spell “liberal”, OBC in 2021 census etc.
Umm it is called working on a few things simultaneously… but perhaps that is a bit too much for your pea sized brain to comprehend..which is only used to focusing on one thing at a time…
Stop becoming personal against people who write..try to engage the article instead.
I don’r see he or his party with the stolen name “Swaraj” is doing anything to help them. He has abandoned them when their protests lost steam and is trying to stay relevant.
Whether the so called upper caste is 20% and how much they own is not the real issue. The fact is that the “affirmative action” is a farce played out on all of us and now hijacked by all political parties. As the writer claims that it will give us a far higher number of OBCs, it may also give us another reality that the 3rd generation beneficiaries of “affirmative action” either dont deserve it anymore or its not helping them any way. But political parties want reservations which is the worst joke on deserving talent, irrespective of the caste. For someone like Yogendra Yadav to ignore this basic fact proves, he too, is now just another politician like them all, making arguments to meet his political ends.
Yes please count the castes, but OBCs can’t be counted because so many castes clamour for OBC status but are not included in it, you know this better – I recall Jats, Marathas, Gujjars etc.
After counting castes, stop generation to generation reservation, define creamy layer realistically at income less than Rs 2.0 lakh per annum for family to get the benefit of reservation.
Do you think SC/ST and OBC elites are ready for these changes?
Creamy layer as 2 lakhs when EWS is 8 lakhs? Such a hypocrite.
Understand reservation. Reservation is to provide fair representation to all sections. A brahmin doctor will not attend to a dalit. If a daily is a doctor he will care for his people. By having doctors in all sections, each sections health need is taken care. This is the principle of reservation.
Currently upper castes control 80% of the beurocracy which they have retained control by sucking up to the mughals and british.
Till when can readers at this website allow Mr Yogendra Yadav to masquerade as an independent coloumnist? Mr yadav is a failed politician. He is anti-bjp in his ideology. Everything that he writes is tainted by his ideological bias towards BJP and RSS. At this website non partisan coloumns are needed. This kind of politicking by a failed politician is unacceptable.
I think he is a paid columnist. This to say he pays to The Print for his columns to get printed. Why else, as a non employee, he has the maximum number of articles printed here?
How is this anti bjp…..did you even read the article….or are you just butt hurt because your Supreme leaders name was mentioned without accompanying the now seemingly mandatory accompaniments of brown nosing …
Most hilarious part of this whole argument by Yogendra is: On one side he says he we don’t know the count on the other side he says general category is 20%. If you know the count of general category then you already know count of OBC. While making his argument he chooses assumptions that suits him.
P.S: I am not ‘for’ or ‘against’ the reservation. I am just analyzing this article purely on factual basis. I simply want to highlight that the author has a bias just like everyone.
Caste base census is a regressive demand coming from Yogendra Yadav. When we got independence our goal was to develop into casteless secular society. We preferred psedo secularism by ignoring Art.44 of constitution. Now comes from intellectuals like Yadav for caste identity which is so demeaning. All identities should go except Indian identity and all benefits from government should be based on economic criteria. Caste based politics have ruined the social fabric and it shouldn’t be further torn by conceeding the demands of Yogendra Yadav. Sports and military are the two wings where merit is the only criteria and we could see what those wings acheived. So many Yadavs are there in cricket team. Latest bowling hero Mohammad from Hyderabad is there because of his merit and not on minority quota. We lost enough of Hargobind Khoranas, Satya Nadella, indira Nooyi, Sundar Pitchiahs to the merit recognising America. Please put an end a mirage called social justice through caste recognition. Yogendra Yadav’s suggestion is a worse remedy and lead to further fragmentation of society as every caste leader will fliat his own party as is seen in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The first few lines which posit the Brahmanas as the ruling caste is something of an obsolete cliche. Or was Yadav talking about the US a Judges and Generals tend to do? I couldn’t get past this line to swallow Yadav’s fellow OBC, Modi as PM.
Reservation exists because social discrimination exists. If social discrimination is done away with , reservations would no longer be needed.
If you look at all yhe comments posted before bashing this article you will find that most of them are from upper castes. So, they are leaving no stones unturned to justify the doing away of reservation. The fact that only the upper castes are able to write here is further evidence that only they have emjoyed the privileges of education and therefore while constituting only 20 percent of the population they enjoy 80 percent of the positions in this country. This country needs 80 percent reservation where minprities should also be included in order to do away with the venom of brahmanism.
I am a dalit Hindu, we have many issues but don’t ever give lesson as a Muslim on Brahminism. Should I start teaching you about ethics of your Prophet? You guys were allowed to stay even after partition in hope that you will embrace secularism but your begging for reservations as minority shows your communalism. Go to Pakistan and Bangladesh and fight for minority rights of Dalit Hindus remaining there. After Jinnah there will never be communal reservations for you people in India.
Becoming relevant is the only aim of some activists. It is a given that anybody who has the progress of the Nation and its people in focus in all their activities should be encouraged to do so, as most of us get caught up in our own things and it is too late by the time we realise we can do some things for others too.
The motivation for such social service is wholly and truly reflected in the intend. When the intend is only to bring down Governments, the acts and utterances of such activists becomes suspect. For instance I do not see such activists continually exhort the public to follow traffic rules or in these times to follow appropriate COVID behaviour. If this were done by such “popular” activists, death and hardships of a lot of Indians could have been avoided. It would have helped to hold up the economy too.
Tailpiece: I have my complete respect and support for activism. If only they were channeled usefully!!!
Yogendra Yadav is just brilliant!!!
I am just speechless after reading his seamless opinion.
Quota and votebank politics has got to a level where it is no longer possible to pander to a votebank without harming another votebank. OBC enumeration will only fracture this even further and cause more problems to the politicians than resolve any issues at ground level. The only way for the politicians as well as India as a whole to dig ourselves out of this hole, is to change the narrative and inspire pride in our individual capabilities and competence. We need a narrative which makes it a matter of pride and assertion of equality for every individual to give up reservation for themselves and their families. This should be accompanied by corresponding reduction in total reservation available. Then hopefully in the next 70 years we can become a meritocratic society
I love this. Exactly what should be done but no, people would rather carry crutches when they can run
Do yadav caste who eat all 27 percent obc quota will settle for 3 percentage quota if it’s population found to be 3 percent in census
On a rather interesting note upper castes have reservations for thousands of years. Only Brahmins could go to school etc. It’s unfair to compare India with USA because American whites are more humane compared to so called upper castes.
In reality American whites had a knack of advertising on newspaper “the negro named —–is scheduled to be hanged at —-at 4.00PM in the afternoon. All interested are asked to be present. – Ku Klux Klan.”
The idea that other castes were not allowed to read is simply a lie. Anyone could read and write in ancient India, only scriptures were not allowed for lower castes…which are useless anyway, My advice is- get a book from 5th standard and really read its content. A proper education will set you free.
Ramayana and Mahabharata were written by OBC/SC writers, Valmiki and Ved Vyasa. Kalidasa was a shepherd (an OBC again) as per folklore.
So your claims get nailed just like that.
Finally, Yogendra Yadav turns into a full fledged castist politician, that India doesn’t needs.
Congratulations
Let us first count the illegals in this country as part of census, for that O am sure this guy will not agree.
From the perspective of academic writing, the article starts as communist write-up, moves to typical Brahmin bashing and then attempt to justify further caste division based reservation. Let’s say if 65% are labelled as OBC, 50% as SC/ST, then mathematically there is no general class. This whole reservation based on caste is political instrument. We want to unit country and some journalists are bent upon dividing it further. Now please tell us, how many Brahmin held key position in government in last 30 years? When you get to facts, such article falls apart. Please find some productive topic to write upon. We are sick and tired of this old caste story and the brahminical conspiracy theory.
Failed logic by a failed politician. A caste census including OBCs might actually reveal that many of them don’t need affirmative action anymore
What the author has missed due to the biased nature of his writing is that an OBC count might actually reveal the improvement in status of lot of OBCs in the middle ranks and dent the reservation politics. A failed logic from a failed leader
Looks like brain washed communist, who is programmed to think one way.
I thought he was a farm leader. Now he seems to be an OBC leader.
I believe the real reason for the govt’s actions is to not provide Mr. Yadav with another reason to sit on a dharna.
Constitution calls for affirmative action for social and educationally backward class NOT caste. SC must review it’s judgement wherein it accepted caste and class as synonym. Thereafter, criteria to define other backward class should be decided. Criteria based class definition will be caste neutral and stop the mad rush of more and more caste as OBC just to corner the benefits meant for real needy. Obviously, criteria based class will be dynamic and number will change every year and hence a separate online register should be made so that just like aadhar people can directly get themselves registered as OBC and renew every year so that those advanced to general category can be removed.
How long will you keep on thrusting all governmental failure on general caste. Today generation upper caste is a myth. Take any minor upper caste kid and ask him to name 10 caste in the country, I bet he won’t be able to name even 5. But you want to keep the devide and keep on bashing upper caste. Today’s upper caste is cleaning roads, selling chat pakodi at stalls , I Don’t consider any work as small but you still want to portray them as ruling class when the reality is opposite.
Today a general class candidate gets a govt. Job at the average age of 30 yrs whereas so-called lower caste candidate gets at 23 and on top of it so called lower caste gets promotions in jobs too.
If you just want to wipe out so-called upper caste from the face of India just say it. Don’t give unrealistic and illogical arguments.
Some people are ‘caste-less’ because they are more ‘educated’ and progressive in their mindsets. In that sense they are really ‘privileged’. Author is an Indian advocate of cancel culture.
The caste cencus will lead to more identity based politics and that is simply what this failed politician cum intellectual wants. But the people of India do not want it, neither are they sold to the lie that India is ruled by Brahmins or upper caste. India is mostly ruled by middle class many of whom have caste reservations. There is more social mobility in this country than the author of this article would acknowledge.
It’s very big conspiracy ignoring the basic human rights of OBCs by the dominant upper castes who remain in political and judiciary also.OBCs are cruelly degraded and divided to meet their selfish goals.It’s really not a democracy,in fact a demon cracy.
Mr. Yadav, I have millionaire OBC friends all around me. A few park their swanky cars in front of my house and I cant afford that. It is irony that people like you are not letting India rise above the caste system. And still wants to focus more on castes by including in census and your dirty politics. Brahmins are not ruling country now. OBCs are ruling the country. That is a fact. I can show you thousands of brahmins who are unable to get 2 times meal in India. Please stop reminding people of their caste. Let affirmative actions be based upon economic status instead of social status.
First thing Hindus should do is to boycott this Yogendra Yadav , physically and morally, please some body do it .
I wonder ask why use a pre classified OBC category, rather ask exact caste. With a clear acceptance of not disclosed / casteless / unknown to responder as an option. This would help to reclassify all Indians properly into caste and link assets, education according to caste groups. I am sure data mining of electronically entered data would help to get answers in fair amount of time. This would help to:
1. Realign caste categories on recent and relevant data
2. Assess whether subcategories can be made for more equitable distribution.
3. Know what proportion of Indians do not have castes (let us assume some of them are upper castes, but people should have an option of choose if they have a caste, and what religion they follow)
4. It mismatch is there in caste and religious following, then we have deeper understanding of how religions in India have caste orders (theoretically such a thing should be absent)
5. Allow provision to automatically generate verifiable caste certificates online based upon the census enumeration.
Some practical issues
What if parents have been from different castes – the child is of which caste (simply paternal? that is simply anti feminist)
Whether options of caste should be pre built or open ended (it is likely that some castes are left out by brahminical or cozily empowered other caste beauraucrats, so give an option of all other castes to be enumerated as well)
Whether the numerical data be closed or open to everyone to take a look. Transparency mandates everyone should have access to the data, inferences may differ.
These cheap and sold out writers want to increase the reservation quota but they never talk about the consequences of these policies on the real deserved talents, never gonna speak about increasing the no of seats in every sector but can freely speak about the so called “Cruel ruling of Brahmins ” though accepting the fact at the same time that even if brahmins are just 20%, but are still carrying on cruelty on others. I mean can you believe that a minority group is being cruel on the majority community which is about 80% according to them. Can there be a better joke than this??
Britishers in India were minority (population wise).
Anyway, you gotta know the definition of the word minority first. Population is just one of the many aspects that are used to determine whether a group is minority or not.
In democracy, majority group always prevails, but not in aristocracy, dictatorship or imperialism. Powerful rules. And electoral democracy, by design, bestows power in majority, which often, but not always, coincides with the largest section of society of a particular caste, religion, race, colour, language etc.
And majority/ minority classification is fundamentally related to pure number according to the above mentioned criteria.
In US and UK, race is self-declaratory. People there are not going around with ‘race’ certificates nor they receive any kind of special treatment when it comes to govt. jobs and education.
“The US, like most multi-racial societies, enumerates race in its census. Britain does it for immigrants by their origin.”
Yogendra Yadav you are far worse than any of the governments you are talking about.
Discredited Aandolanjeevi, Zhola wallah, champagne sipping socialist naxal.
Hey man , what happened to farmers protests ? You left that now trying to cobble up another protests in the name of caste?
Why not ask people to update/mention their caste in their adhar cards. We will have realtime data about cast/religion about population. No need to wait 10 years for that.
The problem is the Phds. in this country are mostly cut paste artists. So quote “Swedish political scientist Göran Therborn with the title “State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism”. and try to hammer a square peg in a round hole by giving it a spin “What Does the Ruling Caste Do When It Rules? State Apparatuses and State Power under Brahminism in a Constitutional Democracy.”
The lack of originality is the hallmark of the majority of Indian intellegencia in non-objective fields. Brahman bashing sells so write about it. The majority rulers since independence have been non-brahmins, but the bashing goes on.
They can’t the quote some thing more relevant from our old scriptures possibly for the fear that the originators could be brahmin and of course the cut-paste will ne be easy .
100% right . JNU is example
What happened to the agitation of the rich farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Western UP? Their great leader, Shri Yogendra Yadav seems to abandoned them in the summer heat. He is now moved on to teaching this government how to spell “liberal”, OBC in 2021 census etc.
Umm it is called working on a few things simultaneously… but perhaps that is a bit too much for your pea sized brain to comprehend..which is only used to focusing on one thing at a time…
Stop becoming personal against people who write..try to engage the article instead.
I don’r see he or his party with the stolen name “Swaraj” is doing anything to help them. He has abandoned them when their protests lost steam and is trying to stay relevant.
Whether the so called upper caste is 20% and how much they own is not the real issue. The fact is that the “affirmative action” is a farce played out on all of us and now hijacked by all political parties. As the writer claims that it will give us a far higher number of OBCs, it may also give us another reality that the 3rd generation beneficiaries of “affirmative action” either dont deserve it anymore or its not helping them any way. But political parties want reservations which is the worst joke on deserving talent, irrespective of the caste. For someone like Yogendra Yadav to ignore this basic fact proves, he too, is now just another politician like them all, making arguments to meet his political ends.
hey i thought he was a farm leader
Yes please count the castes, but OBCs can’t be counted because so many castes clamour for OBC status but are not included in it, you know this better – I recall Jats, Marathas, Gujjars etc.
After counting castes, stop generation to generation reservation, define creamy layer realistically at income less than Rs 2.0 lakh per annum for family to get the benefit of reservation.
Do you think SC/ST and OBC elites are ready for these changes?
Creamy layer as 2 lakhs when EWS is 8 lakhs? Such a hypocrite.
Understand reservation. Reservation is to provide fair representation to all sections. A brahmin doctor will not attend to a dalit. If a daily is a doctor he will care for his people. By having doctors in all sections, each sections health need is taken care. This is the principle of reservation.
Currently upper castes control 80% of the beurocracy which they have retained control by sucking up to the mughals and british.
Till when can readers at this website allow Mr Yogendra Yadav to masquerade as an independent coloumnist? Mr yadav is a failed politician. He is anti-bjp in his ideology. Everything that he writes is tainted by his ideological bias towards BJP and RSS. At this website non partisan coloumns are needed. This kind of politicking by a failed politician is unacceptable.
I think he is a paid columnist. This to say he pays to The Print for his columns to get printed. Why else, as a non employee, he has the maximum number of articles printed here?
How is this anti bjp…..did you even read the article….or are you just butt hurt because your Supreme leaders name was mentioned without accompanying the now seemingly mandatory accompaniments of brown nosing …