Last time when I had been to my home town, the then railway minister was in the nearby town. The minister hailed from the Indian State Bihar. I heard my folks saying that he was there to lead his people into a virgin territory, which has not been forayed by migrant Biharis.
Few days later, I was listening to a talk show on our TV channel; the topic was 'Why Kerala, even after being the most literate state is not able to produce considerable number of IAS and IPS?". Many opinionated that civil service is a stream that is highly dominated by North Indian IAS/IPS kids (children of IAS/IPS parents). Surely this proves that favoritism is so predominantly existent in the Indian Job circuit. After all how can these Biharis/UPites who are believed to not even have the basic infrastructures and educational standards available to other pass the civil service exams with flying colors. It looked eminent that maybe Biharis and UP Babu's who are already on service were propagating favoritism.
Often our opinions and beliefs are based on what we are made to believe. Often it has huge influence on how we perceive or receive something prima facia. Years passed, I was now interacting with people from different walks of life and cultures. During my college days, I happened to study with highly committed Biharis who were at least 3-5 years senior to me sharing the same class room. They were studious and highly committed, though I wouldn't call them scholars. But, still in terms of their efforts they were commendable. I also came across Biharis and UPites who devote years into preparation of civil services. I personally have friends who have that level of conviction. Only then, I realized that Biharis and UPites have high regards for Civil Service and UPSC exams. They put in the most to achieve these targets.
To beat them in these arenas, we would need that level of conviction and dedication. Civil Service, UPSC and Railways are dominated by them, only because they yearn for it and work really hard for it. Rather than complaining that they are eating up jobs, we should counter them with same level of conviction and hard work.
Rather than instigating ill feelings among people, the so called thinkers and leaders of the society should build competitive spirits in people. Parents should teach their children to be sportive rather than pestering them with wrong attitudes.
Those who have read my previous post would wonder why am i being so critical one time and then defensive. Actually, i admire UPites and Biharis for what they nuture within themselve. To spare your 2-3 years for a such a cause is really appreciable, especially when you can easily chase more achievable and greener career options like IT Sector available. We all Indian should take this as a good example and foster our young minds with such ambitions.
Now regarding the question posed at the talk show. I feel the following line by some respectable thinker justifies it which goes like this...."Being Literate doesnt mean being educated".
I believe Literacy is just one milestone towards achieving the ultimate goal of being Educated. It should be noted that most Biharis/UPites are trying to be Educated and thats what we all should learn for a better future of our country.
By beating someone up i dont mean literally....but what i mean is we should give them some hard punching competition.
A line from my Favourite movie "Rang De Basanti" goes...No country is perfect, It has to be made Perfect.We all should strive for the same!
About the Title of this post...Please forgive me for it as i am too naive, i know its a Yellow Journalistic attitude. I am just trying to make everyone read!!.
Aneesh... I really admire your this post... But i really would like to add some more here.
ReplyDeleteWe should not judge whether a state or community is educated or not based on the number of IAS/IPS candidates it has given to this county. What makes this country educate is the literary. Perhaps the most literate state is not in the race of being IAS or IPS. They have some other way to serve this country. Even when I was in Surat, all the major industry has the staff from South India. Regardless of the techinal staff or higher management. They are showing their talent in this way instead of being IAS/IPS. And this is also a nice way to serve the country batter.
And when you admit that the most of IAS and IPS officers are from North India is also becaused of the other factors (The scandal, get the exam papers before exam being conducted due to internal source).. lot of hidden things are there, about what we are not aware.
I am not sure about the point that the above commentator is trying to make. Why we are trying to generalise things against a whole section of India. There are few good and bad things in everybody of us. Can you confidently say that you have never done anything wrong in your life...without attaching few excuses?
ReplyDeleteThe more we drive ourselves towards the line of thought that the previous commentator, we are going to end up destroying everything which we have acheived till date (which isn't much anyways). I agree that every community of india have different inclination about how they wanna contribute few want to get into Army, few in MNCs, few in Research and few in Public Sectors...but that's their choice.
Satyam chief isn't a North Indian but he also did such a huge scam..so nobody is perfect and everybody will try to justify their act.
What we can do is to keep our generation away from such mentality to make a better future for our country, if we get involved in this line of thought then there won't be any future. We have killed each other in the name of religion and cast so far now it will become Regionlism which will add fuel to the fire and the only thing you can out of it will be a future which would be just Ashes.