Who paid for your free lunches?

August 2, 2006

The Prime Minister is discussing the reservations issue with a group of ministers.. mulling over the Moily report, the news channels tell you. All the channels reporting on the issue ‘inform’ you reservations in central educational institutions are going to cost the government 17,000 crores. No, it’s not the expansion envisaged in these institutions to accommodate upper caste students who might lose seats that requires this ‘investment’ -it’s those damned OBCs…who are going to cost the country this colossal ‘expenditure’.

If the institutions had been expanded, without making any provision for new reservations, I’m sure the media would have found a lot of ‘merit’ in that .. colossal ‘drain’ on resources.

one bc voice

July 17, 2006

The state has blocked my voice. So I tried to infiltrate into the Indian etherwaves through Pakistan, by assuming a new identity (http://pkblogs.com/obcvoice). Would that work? Not everyone likes a proxy warrior. So, I have opened another front (http://onebc.blogsome.com) .

onebc ? Because someone has stolen my identity too. The state ignored the existence of the OBCs for half a century - now, a patriotic blogger has decided I should remain non grata.

I would continue to post as obc voice at blogspot - but I’d be posting as onebc at blogsome.

I’ve managed to retain the title at blogsome..but only just. The title is Obc voice (note that only the first letter is in uppercase..this particular template uses only uppercase letters in the title..but if I switch to a different template, you’ll notice the difference) at blogsome and obc voice (all lowercase) at blogspot.

If obc voice continues to remain stifled, now you know who to tune into - onebc

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