Comments on: The verdict on reservations and its implications http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/ The Education of an Opinionated Mind Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:03:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kaangeya http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117698 kaangeya Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:01:19 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117698 With the extension of the post-graduation practical training period from 12 months to 29 months and the near certainty of an immigrant friendly McCain winning in November this year, it may be the right time for good students to leave India immediately after high school. Let the shysters like Paul Dinakaran and his Karunya "University", Arjun Singh and his factotums, and Anbumani Ramadoss and his wreckers run Indian institutions into the ground. In the meanwhile apologists like TA Abinandanan at IISc and UK Anand at IIT-B can spin and delude themselves all they want. India won't be the first modern nation state to have squandered the opportunity to progress twice over (the 1st was the misguided "socialist" dispensation announced at Avadi in 1955, and the 2nd one now). Mexico, Central and South America all had thrown off the colonial yoke early in the 19th century but took the better part of two centuries to achieve some stability. Liberia too has been through a full circle and is now clawing back into sanity under President Johnson-Sirleaf. Let's hope either Mayavati or Modi becomes PM in the not too distant future. Or else all bets are off. With the extension of the post-graduation practical training period from 12 months to 29 months and the near certainty of an immigrant friendly McCain winning in November this year, it may be the right time for good students to leave India immediately after high school. Let the shysters like Paul Dinakaran and his Karunya “University”, Arjun Singh and his factotums, and Anbumani Ramadoss and his wreckers run Indian institutions into the ground. In the meanwhile apologists like TA Abinandanan at IISc and UK Anand at IIT-B can spin and delude themselves all they want. India won’t be the first modern nation state to have squandered the opportunity to progress twice over (the 1st was the misguided “socialist” dispensation announced at Avadi in 1955, and the 2nd one now). Mexico, Central and South America all had thrown off the colonial yoke early in the 19th century but took the better part of two centuries to achieve some stability. Liberia too has been through a full circle and is now clawing back into sanity under President Johnson-Sirleaf. Let’s hope either Mayavati or Modi becomes PM in the not too distant future. Or else all bets are off.

]]> By: Rishabh http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117677 Rishabh Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:11:45 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117677 Important point is that who will review it. If govt then ...... Important point is that who will review it.
If govt then ……

]]> By: The Rational Fool http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117671 The Rational Fool Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:13:21 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117671 Nitin: There are no quantitative limits on the number of student visas to the US as far as I know. So, pack your bags and leave, kids, if you expect to miss the cut off by 0.01! Act now, the way things are going on in India, the dollar won't be falling against the rupee for too long. I have been intending to write Hillary, McCain, and Obama for a while - like some other articles that I have been intending to write for a while ;) - about this as a solution to the aging problem in the US. Perhaps, this will spur me to get on it now :) Nitin:

There are no quantitative limits on the number of student visas to the US as far as I know. So, pack your bags and leave, kids, if you expect to miss the cut off by 0.01! Act now, the way things are going on in India, the dollar won’t be falling against the rupee for too long.

I have been intending to write Hillary, McCain, and Obama for a while – like some other articles that I have been intending to write for a while ;) – about this as a solution to the aging problem in the US. Perhaps, this will spur me to get on it now :)

]]> By: Nitin http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117658 Nitin Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:42:45 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117658 Dear Rational Fool, If the United States knows how to smell an opportunity, it will now increase the number of visas. Dear Rational Fool,

If the United States knows how to smell an opportunity, it will now increase the number of visas.

]]> By: The Rational Fool http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117641 The Rational Fool Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:28:47 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117641 Make "reservations meaningful"? How can anyone make an oxymoron meaningful? The 5-year review is silly at best. Why would a mere five years of reservation in select institutions of learning change whatever that's supposed to be the result of thousands of years of caste based discrimination? Hell, it's not even sufficient for a new generation to emerge from those who benefited from the caste based reservation. The reviews will simply encourage political shenanigans every five years. Perhaps doles to septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians, bureaucrats, and judges in the infinite sequence of review committees at the tax payers' expense, nothing more, nothing less! Make “reservations meaningful”? How can anyone make an oxymoron meaningful? The 5-year review is silly at best. Why would a mere five years of reservation in select institutions of learning change whatever that’s supposed to be the result of thousands of years of caste based discrimination? Hell, it’s not even sufficient for a new generation to emerge from those who benefited from the caste based reservation. The reviews will simply encourage political shenanigans every five years. Perhaps doles to septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians, bureaucrats, and judges in the infinite sequence of review committees at the tax payers’ expense, nothing more, nothing less!

]]> By: » SC Verdict on OBC Reservations - Battle drawn War to be won - Blogger News Network http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117618 » SC Verdict on OBC Reservations - Battle drawn War to be won - Blogger News Network Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:49:43 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117618 [...] drawn War to be won Posted on April 10th, 2008 by yossarin in India News Read 2 times. Ninad and Nitin have written pieces on the verdict itself. Offstumped focuses this post on the larger War on Social [...] [...] drawn War to be won Posted on April 10th, 2008 by yossarin in India News Read 2 times. Ninad and Nitin have written pieces on the verdict itself. Offstumped focuses this post on the larger War on Social [...]

]]> By: » SC Verdict on OBC Reservations - Battle drawn War yet to be won | Offstumped http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117617 » SC Verdict on OBC Reservations - Battle drawn War yet to be won | Offstumped Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:43:21 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117617 [...] and Nitin have written pieces on the verdict itself. Offstumped focuses this post on the larger War on Social [...] [...] and Nitin have written pieces on the verdict itself. Offstumped focuses this post on the larger War on Social [...]

]]> By: Ashutosh http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/comment-page-1/#comment-117614 Ashutosh Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:44:29 +0000 http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/04/10/the-verdict-on-reservations-and-its-implications/#comment-117614 The scope for review is indeed encouraging...if it can be done honestly and cogently. The scope for review is indeed encouraging…if it can be done honestly and cogently.

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