Introspecting Aloud

Just one single news article (Hindu.com) today upset me to no end.

• Call by multiple parties for a caste based census in 2011. This has not been allowed for the last few decades for the simple reason that it leads to caste based policy, which till a few years back was something people had uniformly been against. Now it is already a state policy.
• The idea behind the census is to justify inclusion of creamy layer into the reservation. This is even after the government has already increased the inclusion criteria to someone with a salary of about Rs. 40,000/month. BTW, BSP thought that was not enough, and increased it further to Rs. 5 lakh/annum.
• There is a demand of reservation not only in education and jobs in the private sector, but also in the media.

This, however, was a jaw dropping revelation.

Extending support to the Telangana statehood movement, Ramadoss said his party had always supported the idea of carving out small states from bigger ones.

Right. Break up the entire country into pieces. And while you are at it, why don’t you break up J&K into J and K, and put this subcontinent out of it’s misery?