Finished Harry Potter 3 today. For me, the emotional appeal of the book is so high that I can happily ignore the slightly weak storyline towards the end. The whole time machine funda looked a little ill fitted but the thing that bowled me over were the mooney,wormtail, padfoot and prongs. Those are some cool sounding nicks. And I liked them so much that I am seriously considering a change from abhaga :)
The wooden horse of reservation !
One thing common to almost all the front line pro-quota arguments is an image of one affluent, well educated, greedy boy and another of the most underprivileged, oppressed guy you can imagine and as you can very well guess, the first one carries the label upper cast and the other one OBC/SC/ST. Please note the second label, it is not SC/St or OBC. It is SC/ST/OBC. This is an ad that has sold its product like no other. It sells you reservation. In oppressed, it manages to create anger, in well to do upper cast, it manges to create a sense of guilt and they all buy the idea of reservation that would help the underprivileged kid get his due share from the bad guy. And the the get busy, get along with life, bothering little to ask what happened to the poor kid. I don't need to tell you what happened, you already know if you care to think beyond your false sense of having done something. It is the same story that is repeated any number of times everyday on every red light crossing of...
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