ExpertDabbler

Got this as a mail fwd from my friend Sathish Kumar:)

..”I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely
support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let’s start
the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent
reservation for muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket
rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be
reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be
considered as a six and a six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8
runs. An OBC player scoring 60 runs should be declared as a century.

We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like
Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers
should bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any
delivery above this speed should be made illegal.

Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an
OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters”

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How many of you guys watch programmes like “Comedy Time”?
If not, please watch Sharath Kumar’s interview in Jaya TV sometime. It was hilarious. It’s staggering to know his “reasonable” expectations.
For example he expects Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanidhi Maran and co, to inform him and ask his opinion when they decided to buy “Dinakaran”. Why? Because was associated with that newspaper in his earlier days
Going by his logic if some MNC comes and acquires any of my previous employers .. maybe they should send out a notice to all the present and previous employees of the to-be acquired company stating their intention to acquire!!! Let me stop here before it turns to something unbelievably bizzare…

Those who had watched his programme would know and realize the number of times he referred to his community… “En samoogam.. en nadar samoogam” was his oft used refrain. To my knowledge nobody has raised any objections to this. Fine. But just imagine what would’ve happened if the same was uttered by some brahmin community guy or for that matter any numerically small, politically powerless community person. The tamil blogosphere would have gone mourning for weeks. He would be branded as “jaadhi veriyan” and other such unprintable words would be thrown all around.

It’s not as if Sharath movies are watched only by members of his community. He is a film star and that’s his sole USP. And his films are being watched by all and sundry. If that’s the case where is the need to claim as if he is representing the people of his community in a public forum like television?

This does not mean I am a brahmin by birth nor do I support some arcane brahmin elitist notions some people have. We’ve seen enough junks like that.

It just goes to show that any community, which has been at the receiving end for thousands of years, when it attains a threshold of growth and gains an upper hand economically and consequently socially, perpetrates all biases and prejudices it has experienced and gets away with it. It’s a cycle.

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