Archive for February 5, 2009

Blog Hacked - Old Posts Posted Again

I have re-posted some of my old entries as my blog was hacked and some posts deleted because someone didn’t like a post of mine.
Some of you may  get new ping backs because of this. Apologies for that.
The blog was hacked because of a security hole in Wordpress. I have upgraded to the latest one [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: blogging  No Comments

OBC Reservations - Supreme Court Verdict

The Supreme court has stayed the implementation of the OBC reservation in its current form.
The Court ruled that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation.
I personally see this as being a good thing in the light of the recent developments. This means [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: Creamy Layer, Reservations  No Comments

Victim Of A Scam… Almost!

One fine day I get a call from my bank that a certain person was trying to en cash a suspicious check issued from my account to him. When I confirmed that I had not issued any check the bank stopped the check from clearing. It seems the person had got the check as a [...]

February 5, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Shameful Police and Public

 

Watching this incident make my heart churn. I have witnessed such incident before as well, where a thief has been brutally beaten by the public. I don’t understand why he needs to be beaten to death when he has been overpowered and his hands tied behind his back?
And what about the police? Are they human? [...]

February 5, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: India  No Comments

7 Teachers beat an 11 Year old for not doing homework

Here is another case of corporal punishment. I think it is high time some serious action was taken against the schools and erring teachers.
IBN Reports
A sixth standard student of the Vinod English High School in Bangalore, Sangeetha was physically tortured by seven of her teachers on Thursday.
The teachers said that Sangeetha hadn’t done her homework [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: Education, corporal punishment  No Comments

If This Is Not Slavery, What Is?

Times Of India reports
Seven Dalits — Bideshi Nayak, Ramachandra, Sudama, Nilakantha, Sakhi, Sanju and Puspalata Nayak — were ostracised from Goruala village near Puri for refusing to beat drums in a temple — a practice that their forefathers had been doing for ages.
Though about three months have passed since they were ostracised, there seems [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: Caste, Caste System  No Comments

It’s turn of upper caste to suffer

IBN reports
While Salve had strong opposition to the Central Educational Institution (Reservation for Admission) Act, 2006, senior advocate K Parasaran, appearing for the Tamil Nadu Government said: “They (upper caste) dominated for centuries and now they should suffer.”
Is that the idea behind reservations? Retribution? Dumb advocate doesn’t know why reservations are there in the first [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: Caste, Caste System  No Comments

Insulting A Child Is Also Corporal Punishment

ExpressIndia Link
Making a student kneel down or stand for hours and pinching or slapping him or her could land teachers in trouble as all acts involving insult or humiliation to the child could soon be banned in schools.
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NCPCR Chairperson Shantha Sinha has written to all chief secretaries recommending that there should be no gradations [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: corporal punishment  No Comments

Happy Independence day - India at 60

Happy Independence day!!!
India has completed 60 years of independence and has achieved a lot in those 60 years. Still a lot remains to be done and as always I am hopeful that things will only get better from this point onwards. I wish India a bright, independent, prosperous and most importantly a peaceful future to [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: India  No Comments

What Is Wrong With Our Teachers?

Right after the news of death of a student because of teacher atrocity comes the report of electrocuting and beating kids to punish them for their “own good”. There is this other teacher who paraded a kid naked for taking a dip in the school tank. At least this one got one year jail. [...]

February 5, 2009   Posted in: corporal punishment  No Comments