Jagatheesan Chandrasekharan
People all over the country see political and a
broad-basing
of the BSP party organisation as it was Dr B.R. Ambedkar who in 1954
advocated splitting of bigger states into smaller units.The previous
Mayawati government had got a controversial resolution
passed in the State Assembly on splitting Uttar Pradesh into four
smaller states as Purvanchal, Bundelkhand, Awadh Pradesh and Pashchimanchal. Mayawati
said when her party was in power, she had created new divisions, zones,
districts and tehsils so that better administration could be provided
to the people of the state, which is the most populous state in the
country. Purely from an administrative point of view, a state of over 200
million people, 72 districts, over 800 blocks… It’s just not
governable.”It is unfortunate that the
central government kept it pending since then, but with Telangana
becoming a reality, BSP demands that on the principle of one
language-one state, the Centre, besides reorganising larger states,
should also complete the process of division of Uttar Pradesh into four
states,
besides (formation of) Gorkhakland and Vidarbha,” she said. Size does
make a difference. For political reasons, the Congress
party has been averse to splitting bigger states into smaller ones and
pointlessly dragging feet on such demands as is happening in Andhra
Pradesh. Earlier the Uttarakhand movement was unnecessarily prolonged
for years.”When this population is divided between four states, development will increase,” she said.
It is most unfortunate that some people like ugly pagals
nipun jain (rewari),Ashok Prabhu (Margao,Goa.),Optimus (Chennai) ,
shishir
(usa),mishratuhin (delhi),Indian (india),rightening face patriot
(india),Mahendra Gaur (Jaipur) ,arora v (uk) ,Ranjit Mishra (Brahmapur)
,mehulshroff (Mumbai) ,Seng Kally () ,Ceej (Pune) ,Praveen Kumar Dubey
(mumbai) Sudheer (Bangalore) ,misery Ramsubramani Harihara Iyer () ,mad
(India) ,PS! (Bharat) ,Easwar Venkatraman (Mumbai) ,stupid Akash behera
(Uttarpradesh),begging bowl Baby Mohan (Bangalore) ,fool anil sharma
(Mumbai) , separate country Sumit Kumar (Gurgaon) ,looting.rober, goonda
flemingo2008 () ,Goat Buffalo vikatasiromani (Location) ,Indian,
Mexico,vashal,Rajesh,Mangalore,Dubai /Udupi, Rammohan Kamath,Anil
Misquith, Abu Dhabi,Dinesh Poojary, Kundapura/Bengaluru,CYRIL
MASCARENHAS, KIREM/MIRA ROAD/DUBAI,Raj_Talkray, Telangana,R.Bhandarkar,
M’lore,ashley, Muscat,James, Abu Dhabi,Ismail Shaikh,
Moodbidri/Dubai,Manda Budhi, Kudla,Krishna, Mangalore,Adi, Kinnigoli/Old
Hyderabad,Amin Bhoja, Patte / Riyadh,HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain,Aloka
Nath, Bengaluru,Kicked out Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai, Rajesh Shetty,
Mlore-Shj,Ismail Shaikh, Moodbidri/Dubai,Dinesh Poojary,
Kundapura/Bengaluru,rahul jaiswal,brajesh narayan, s300,sam,suresh
kamat, chirag ranjan, pradeep kumar,optimus,anupmanu,sandeep
shah,rsm,asimc, venkateshwar, skumar became mad as soon as Mayawati an
untouchable made some sensible statement. This is because of the age old
traditional hatred, anger, jealousy and evil thoughts propagated by RSS
and BJP against non RSS/BJP crooked leaders. They must become broad
minded like the people of US who elected Obama for the second time. If
it happens here to make Mayawati as PM then mental asylums may not be
required so that they could lead a sane life by shedding hatred.
Over Rs 33 lakh seized from biker in poll-bound Karnataka
Jagatheesan Chandrasekharan - Bangalore
Names with photo of the man and the local industrialist must be published by the fearless media for LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.
VOICE OF SARVA SAMAJ SADBHAVAN
நீங்கள் நேர்மையானவராக இருந்தால் இதையும் உங்கள் விவாதத்தில் சேர்த்துக்கொள்ளவேண்டும்:
கோவில் மண்டபங்கள்: கடவுள் மறுப்பாளர்களுக்கு தடை சரியா?
மேல்கோட்டையில் ராமானுஜர் தாழ்த்தப்படவர்களைஎல்லாம் ஐயெங்கார்களாக மாற்றினார். அவர்களுக்கும் இத்தடையா? இந்த கர்மத்ற்குத்தான் எல்லோரும் புத்த மதத்திற்கு திரும்பி விட வேண்டும்.
பிரதமர் பதவிக்கு ராகுல் காந்தி சரியான தேர்வு: மன்மோகன் சிங்
மயாவதியையா பிரதமர் ஆகா வேண்டும் என கூறுவார் ?
Ratnesh Katulkar
Varnanam brahmano guru! Meaning: among all the varnas only the Brahmin can be appointed as a teacher.
This dictum is followed in Indian society from time immemorial. But in
contrast to this principle there has been frequent mention of a
non-brahmin teacher called Shukracharya, the guru of the Rakshasas, in
the Vedas and Puranas. Interestingly, there was a time when India earned
the title of vishwa-guru (’the teacher of the
world’). Needless to mention that the credit for this honour goes to
another famous non-brahmin teacher, the Buddha, under the influence of
whose philosophy India had built universities of international repute,
such as Nalanda, Vikramshila, Odantpuri, Vallabhi etc., which attracted a
large number of foreign students. Yet in popular knowledge, ancient
Indian teachers and education are synonymous with the Brahmins.
The long list of famous Gurus -
Dronacharya, Vasisth, Kripacharya, Manu and Gautam – circulated by mainstream culture consists of only Brahmins.
These names are popular in Indian tales, myths, religious scriptures
and to an extent are even considered history. However, one cannot call
this as caste based reservation, because these gurus earned their
position owing to their so-called ‘merit’. The Brahmins’ complete
domination of teaching was of course not without any reason. The
teaching profession is directly related with knowledge which is the key
to human development and progress; in such a situation it is natural
that the Brahmins restricted the teaching positions to themselves alone.
Allowing non-brahmins to teach would lead to the collapse of their
sacred fourfold societal division: so, how could they accept others as teachers?
In
modern India too, there has been no significant change in the
situation: like their ancestors Shukracharya and the Buddha, the Phule
couple - Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule - and Dr Ambedkar too spent
their whole lives for the sake of the poor and despised masses and
successfully educated them about their rights and created awareness. But
the ‘mainstream’ of Indian society does not see these leaders as
synonymous with Teachers’ Day. Instead, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s
name is reserved for this great day and why not? He is a great
philosopher of international repute and as a teacher, he also resembles,
in some ways, the ideal vedic guru Dronacharya - who is still honored
and remembered by Hindus for
cutting off the thumb of his tribal student Eklavya to maintain the
merit of his favorite student Arjuna.
It
is true that Radhakrishnan didn’t cut off the thumb of any of his
students but he did commit intellectual theft of a student’s work. Very
few people know that Radhakrishnan’s famous work ‘Indian Philosophy’ is
largely plagiarized from the PhD thesis of Jadunath Sinha (please read: ‘Subcontinental plagiarism‘ by Idrees Bakhtiar in the Dawn; also published in other South Asian media),
one of his students. However, when Sinha came to know about this theft,
unlike Eklavya, he didn’t follow the path of sacrifice and instead
filed a case in court against his teacher. It is another matter that
owing to Radhakrishnan’s influential position, the case was disposed of
without causing much trouble to him. But how can truth be totally
extinguished? It ultimately turned out that Radhakrishnan was not so
lucky after all because most
of the chapters of Sinha’s thesis had already been published in other
magazines prior to the publication of Indian Philosophy.
Thus it was well proved, without the need of any court’s intervention,
that Radhakrishnan’s most magnificent and glorious work was nothing but
an intellectual theft.
Even
today, there are many teachers in India who have earned their names in
the academic world by plagiarizing the works of their students, like
Radhakrishnan, and there are many more teachers who due to caste,
religion and gender biases, like Dronacharya, force their students
either to leave their education before completion, or even to commit
suicide.
One
needs to recount only the tragic case of Jaspreet Singh, a Dalit-Sikh
student of Chandigarh’s Government Medical College, to illustrate what
kind of deleterious effect such biased teachers could have on their
students’ lives. On March 27, 2008, after a long period of harassment,
Jaspreet ended his life by hanging himself in the hostel library as his
casteist teacher deliberately failed him in his MBBBS final examination.
It
is not in Chandigarh alone, but all over India, particularly in premier
educational institutions such as IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and other central
universities, that you will find frequent occurrence of suicides by
Dalit and Tribal students every year. In recent months, on the
complaints of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students of
Safdarjung Medical College, New Delhi, about the casteism prevalent in
their campus, a committee was appointed by the National Commission for
Scheduled Castes (NCSC) under the chairmanship of Prof. Mungekar.
Among
the many important findings of the committee was the ugly revelation
that the teachers in the college were allotting marks to students on the
basis of caste. In Jaspreet’s case too, when his papers were rechecked
by an expert committee, it was found that he had passed in all the
subjects! But unfortunately, by the time he was vindicated, he had
already lost the battle of his life.
This
is not the case of higher education alone; school education is not much
different. Reports of students being beaten so severely, by teachers,
that some of them even lost their lives frequently appear in the media.
Recently, there was a news report about a girl student being forced to
drink her own urine by her teacher in Shantiniketan near Kolkata. There
are many schools in rural India where dalit students are forced to clean
toilets and sweep classrooms. But so strange is Indian culture that it
grants the status of god to the teacher and anoints a guru who committed
theft of his student’s work as an ideal teacher!
However,
one good news is that now a section of people have started raising
their voice against this mainstream culture and are challenging the
celebration of Teachers’ Day on the birthday of Dr Radhakrishnan. This
year, a large number of Dalit, Tribal and other backward people gathered
at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, to commemorate January 3rd, the birthday
of Savitribai Phule, as Education Day. As Dr Ambedkar once said: ‘what is wrongly settled must not be accepted as tradition but must be resettled’.
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Ratnesh Katulkar works in the Department of Dalit studies at Indian Social Institute (ISI), New Delhi.
Cartoons by Unnamati Syama Sundar.
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