Back to pavilion!!!

Hello people!

Umm......Once a defaulter, always a defaulter....is what you all must be thinking!!! But then let me not make apologising for my absence a standard statement in all my blogs......if the past month is anything to go by.......I've totally transformed into the typical irregular blogger!!!! But what the heck.....I'd rather give you guys food for thought than irate nonsense!!!! So now on, I'll only blog when I have something meaningful to blog in!!!!! Let's see how often that is, shall we??!!!

So, as the prominent heading pronounces......I'm back to pavilion, to dear old Mumbai, home sweet home!!! Feels great to be back and can't wait for college to reopen, to meet friends, to freak out and in the little time that all the fun leaves out, to study!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, its back to routine from Monday!!

Meanwhile, a topic that's been plaguing India at large since the past few months is the reservation issue..........enough has been said and discussed about it and, obviously, I'm against it, too.......its a pity really that true merit and intelligence is now going to be of lesser value or importance in comparison to one's caste. Its a shame that in a country which is taking gigantic strides towards development and modernisation, such orthodox practices still exist.....and to quote a line that came to me through email..........has to be one of the most profound quotes in this regard, "We must be the only country in the world where people fight to be called backward!!!!!!!!!!!"

How ironic that on one hand we speak of collaborating with the whole world on ambitious projects, on the other, we are unable to give due respect to the deserving in our own country. How ironic that on the one hand we speak of employment problems and mass unemployment, on the other we reserve seats for people who are either not interested in serving the nation or not bothered or simply not capable. How ironic that in a country that boasts of Unity in Diversity (I could personally never digest this one!!), there are such wide disparities being made on the basis of caste. Unbelievable!!!!!

No doubt, there might be capable individuals in all categories, all castes......but when it comes to educational institutions, all people who strive to get in put in so much of effort and yet, the most deserving people may get left out for the simple reason that they do not belong to SC/ST/OBC......how unfair!!!!!!

What inspired me to write about the reservation problem in my blog was not only the problem in itself, which is of course one of the inspirations but there's this sms that I got from a friend that asked to check up a particular blog dedicated to the cause and I did just that.......and what did I find??? A blog that's truly inspiring, in-your-face and utterly sincere.....truly living up to their name YFE or Youth for Equality...........I hope to be able to be part of their efforts.....not yet joined their signature campaign or any such thing but thought that the least I could do was to dedicate a bit of my blog to their cause......which in reality is my cause, too....and probably yours too.....and by large, the cause of majority of the nation!!!

So friends, check out the blog http://www.yfemumbai.blogspot.com/ and let me know what you think of it....And please do try to do your bit....send mails, smses, post it on your blog or simply forward the link of the YFE blog to all your pals........it's the least contribution we can make for a cause that's of as much consequence to us as it is for the people who are dying for it....Let's just hope for the best!!!!

Umm......well, this is it for today!!!! Later now!

Till next time..............Tally-ho!!!