We don't need no Reservations!

Yes we've heard a lot of stuff about the anti-reservation thing, so I'll keep this very short.

We've seen so many things about protesters getting lathi-charged, rumors of an AIIMS medico dying and media not covering it, and SMSs, mails, petitions flowing everywhere..... with the media lapping it up.. (doing a good job of spreading the agenda too, thankfully)
Arjun Singh has really become the most hated person by most Indians below 30 years.

There are jokes flying around about Manmohan Singh sending a team of Indians to the moon, which has a horde of reserved category people and 'probably' one astronaut.
There are T-shirts and banners with different slogans.
One goes: 'I am leaving for the US. I was disowned by my own country'.
Another: 'If you are asleep, wake up. If you are dead, become a politician'.

There is a surprising amount of resentment in the voice of the youngsters who appear on TV speaking against reservations. There is this latent mass-anger which is waiting to erupt. Maybe some of it comes from within, some of it comes on borrowed emotions (of manufactured protests), some due to the recent Rang-De-Basanti hangover... But the point is - there is genuine and collective rage against this animal called Reservation all across the youth of India. And that is good.

There is this small bit of Anti-Reservation-ism within each one of us. Some proactively go ahead and demonstrate something, while most of the others (would include me) just sit back and discuss how bad it is for the country and then its back to our Projects @ Office.

Just today we tried doing our little bit though. Many of the folks in our company celebrated 'Black Day' today. So Black clothes it was, and black wrist-bands - all to show that we were together for the cause. So what if we had already passed out of the reservation imbroglio a few years back and now conveniently enjoying our salaries.

There was this silent protest march arranged outside our campus in the evening. As luck would have it, I had my 'onsite call' at that time and couldn't attend. Funny how some things like work pressures can always drive us away from some other priorities in life!

Will India progress as well if we have the Quota system implemented? I'm sure we all have our reservations.....