[Reader-list] Re: Please JOIN pro-reservation agitation in London

[shashidhar sabnavis]

Dear Mr. Murari,

God alone must be in the know, we are all humans born
equal but there are a few like you who want to divide
the society, Mr. Murari calls us comrades and does not
quite understand the most basic of all comunist
equations, the equation of equality. 

Mr. Murari firmly believes that people from the lower
castes should be given an opportunity, will he equally
support it if the same doctor tomorrow gives him a bad
pill, or should an OBC be exempt from fradualent
practice , if good needs to be promoted, should bad
also be discouraged, should an OBC be given more
punishment if he does something bad.

I have worked a life time in Slums in Pune the mother
land for all caste movements, one of the slums we work
in is divided on the lines of caste, people who follow
Ambedkar and people who follow athavle, they do not
inter marry they do not cross each others lines, If
such great luminaries could not chages them what can
people like us do...

Do not fall for the trap, do not take any concessions,
there is no free lunch in this world and only ability
and instent stand good.. I am sure all OBC's were also
given the same lessons by their parents.

Jai Hind

shashi
--- murari kumar jha <muro_kj at rediffmail.com> wrote:

> Comrades,
> We have already waged a struggle in favour of
> reservation at JNU on the banner of ALL INDIA
> STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (AISA). The JNUSU President
> who is from this organisation has brought out
> leaflet supporting the cause of social justice. From
> today onwards we going on a relay hunger strike to
> extend our support to reservation for the OBCs.
> Lal Salaam.
> 
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 arisen silently wrote :
> >This sounds like an RSS invasion.
> >
> >
> >
> >On 5/26/06, Kuber Sharma <kubers at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Join them at Picadilly Square...
> >>
> >>---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Kuber Sharma <kubers at gmail.com>
> >>Date: May 26, 2006 2:45 AM
> >>Subject: Starting our Agitation
> >>
> >>Dear Friends,
> >>   Jaibheem
> >>
> >>Indians Campaign for claim on all Nations has
> decided to start its
> >>campaign on 29th May evening by holding a public
> meeting in favour of
> >>reservation in LSE. From 30th morning we will
> start our Dharna in front
> >>of Picadilly Square in London. Some of us will go
> on hunger strike. We
> >>will start with relay hunger strike with more
> students joining in. The
> >>aim of our hunger strike and dharna is to mobilise
> more indians,
> >>youths as well as other professionals to come out
> in support of
> >>Reservation policy and to oppose the nationalist
> biases of Media, Academia
> >>and black mail of nationalist Britishers and also
> to
> >>force Blair government to fulfill its obligation
> effectively.
> >>
> >>We are in contact with pro-reservation students
> from different parts
> >>of the old empire. Many of them have assured their
> participation in our
> >>protest in London. Within a week we are hoping to
> have students from
> >>each one of the ex colonies of Great Britain
> sitting on hunger
> >>strike and dharna in London. Right now our plan is
> to focus our protest
> >>in London only. Given our limited means it will be
> appropriate for us
> >>to focus our agitation at one place. With the time
> period gradually we
> >>can coordinate with students from other part of
> the world and bring
> >>all of us under one Umbrella and make concerted
> efforts.
> >>
> >>We call students from various part of the old
> empire to flood London in
> >>coming days. We are small group of students
> without any financial
> >>means so it is must that those students who can
> afford traveling and
> >>staying in London should come. The only thing we
> can do is to provide
> >>them the space in our rooms for their stay.
> >>
> >>It is most important that our intellectuals and
> scholars should join
> >>us. We appeal to them to come to London and at
> least stay with us for
> >>one day. This will boost our confidence and help
> us to mobilise more
> >>support from Indian community.
> >>
> >>We also appeal our professionals to come to
> London, if possible, or
> >>support us in what ever way they feel they can.
> >>
> >>TOGETHER ALL OF US CAN REALLY BRING DESIRED
> CHANGES IN THE SOCIETY
> >>
> >>The main rationale behind our agitation are
> >>
> >>1. Stupid Indian reservationists has provided us a
> golden opportunity to
> >>bring caste and national discourse in mainstream.
> As we all are aware of the
> >>fact that British media, accademia and civil
> society always maintain
> >>conspiratory silence on horrors of colonial period
> and always try to hide
> >>nation based discrimination and inequality in the
> name of merit. In fact
> >>they have till now successfully denied us the
> space to speak, raise our
> >>concernssince independence. Now they only, by
> default, have provided us an
> >>opportunity to organise and fight  discrimination;
> >>
> >>2. This is also an historic opportunity for us to
> pressurise British
> >>government to take stock of its measures for
> empowerment of
> >>underprivileged Indians and demand effective
> implementation of such
> >>government policies;
> >>
> >>3. To oppose elitist and castist biases in
> educational system of UK and to
> >>bust the myth of British merit. Just because we
> our PCI is so much lesser,
> >>we should not pay full fee at any British Acdemic
> Institution.
> >>
> >>4. And the most important point is to take revenge
> for over two centuries of
> >>British exploitation of our fine nation. It is
> high time that we demand
> >>effective reforms for Indians.
> >>
> >>OUR DEMANDS
> >>
> >>1. The British Government must fulfill its
> constitutional obligations by
> >>implementing reservations for all Indians in all
> government jobs,
> >>private or government educational
> institutions,army,judiciary and
> >>super speciality courses.
> >>
> >>2. The British Government should also make legal
> provisions for reservation
> >>in private sector for underprivileged Indians.
> >>
> >>3. The British Government must bring out a White
> Paper on reservation
> >>policy. It is must so as to know how far it has
> been implemented. It is fact
> >>that not even 50 % of reservation is being
> fulfilled by ruling white
> >>class of UK. They have denied us the maximum
> benefits of
> >>reservation policy till now.
> >>
> >>4. Effective land reforms are must for empowerment
> of Indians. So we
> >>demand government to carry land reforms in every
> part of the UK and not just
> >>southall.
> >>
> >>5. We also demand to amend nationalist & elitist
> biases in their education
> >>system by
> >>     a. redesigning the syllabuses to generate
> awareness about colonisation
> >>of India;
> >>     b. providing non-british, anti-caste icons
> prominent space and
> >>to remove completely britishl myths and
> misconceptions, taught to
> >>us, in the name of International History and
> Culture.
> >>     c. Ban all classes at Oxford and Cambridge.
> >>     d. Restructuring competitive exams to remove
> biases that favours
> >>elite class/caste students
> >>     e. compulsory couses of history, political
> science, sociology for
> >>students from technical and professional
> institutes.
> >>      f. More recruitment of faculties in premier
> institutions from
> >>Indian background to correct the caste imbalance
> and to break the monopoly
> >>of british people over such institutions and to
> >>provide opportunity for blossoming of real merit,
> efficiency and
> >>excellence.
> >>     g. Higher education must be provided in Hindi
> and Punjabi or all
> >>primary schools must be in Telugu medium
> >>     h. Government must spend 10% of GDP on
> Education focusing on
> >>quality primary education for underprivileged
> >>
> >>6. We demand punishment for anti-reservation
> protesters for hurting
> >>sentiments and showing their castist nature by
> sweeping roads,
> >>cleaning shoes and raising castist slogans.
> >>
> 
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