It is always nice to share a little something of your life with the people around you. It makes you get the overload off of you and, in some cases is also beneficial for the people around you. Gives a little perspective.
Equality - it is an abstract term. It is as intangible as air or a thought, but just because of that, it does not mean that it doesn't exist. It most definitely exists - but some have to snatch it away from the hands of the wealthy while some receive it as a gift of their existence, as a pity offering.
Equality indicates a state wherein no human being is different from the other or can remain indifferent about the other. The entire human history is a witness of the level of struggle and perseverance that mankind had to adhere to in order to maintain the EQUALITY among the regular people. There were revolts against the superior powers and the monarchs in order to re-establish the ideas of equality in the kingdoms. When people decided to bring about the equality to the commoners, no building, no empire, no government could restrain them. It was some inevitable occurrence that no one could contain and no one could orchestrate. That is the power that a determined human stand could ever hold.
People died fighting for equality. However, initially this fight was for bringing the lower strata of the society into level with the higher strata and today - it is the other way around. Look, no one can deny the fact that the so-called poor and backward people of the Indian society have taken ill-advantage of the reservations given to them by the government. On my part, I won't even say 'ill-advantage', because that would be wrong. They have taken an advantage similar to that.
I am studying to be an engineer. The fees that I, as an open candidate pay, is Rs. 1,08,000. And the SC/ST/OBC people in my college pay Rs. 14,000 only for the same course. I would like to point this fact out, particularly. Why this inequality? Why?
Now, I am pursuing a prestigious course, so I don't mind the fees. But if I am paying such a huge amount, shouldn't someone pursuing the same course, with the same merits as mine, pay roughly the same amount? Or, shouldn't there be some kind of scholarship exam for the reserved category, on the merits of which the handful reserved ones can reduce their fee amount?
These are some of the things that have always bothered me. And I thought of sharing them with you. Isn't it a bit maddening? Where is the equality then? Are we still supposed to fight for it while the poor people get away with it?
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