From: prem@cs.montana.edu (M.P.Premkumar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Please be accurate to avoid flame wars.
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:15:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Aug18.201541.15194
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717

In article <1992Aug18.193607.4673@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> raghu@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Raghu B) writes:
>In <Bt6x0K.Cpw@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> crathina@ritchie.uwaterloo.ca (C Rathinavelu) writes:
>
>
>>                 If the admission is based on merit system then I am pretty 
>>sure that only and only city people (Madras,Coimbatore,Trichy,Madurai etc. 
>>they have more/most/enough facilities in education industry) will enjoy this
>>partial system. One should also give some oppotunity to village and labour
>>class people to come up in their life. 
>
>  what do you mean by that the city people have more facilities. We are
>all reading the same book and taking the same test. i can understand
>that the teaching facilites may not be good in schools in villages when
	  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>compared to schools in cities. 

There you go. You yourself pointed it out.

>When the reservation is based on caste,
>how can a so called "forward caste " fellow in villages survive. The
>"forward cast people " in cities itself is facing hell a lot of
>problems. So on what basis should the reservations be made. Most of us
>will agree that it should be based upon the economic basis. That is the
>only agreeable basis on which this reservation system could function
>well. Now comes the question of giving a legal financial information
>like they do in United States and Canada and other Developed countries.
>One has to show his financial health for the year and it should not
> be taken in to account in the next year.

I am against the economic criterion and the reasons are many. I had given my
views on that sometime back in the net. Nobody objected and argued about what
I said and so I think may be I was right.

>
>  
>
>>             Do you think that getting high marks ( as bramins and other 
>>fc people usually do ) in the subjects/studies means you are 100% fit for
>  my dear friend,
>	who said brahmins could excel in subject alone. for your kind
>info., srikkanth is a brahmin. and he was a top class player. you can
>find that the contribution of fc people to the community is thousand
>times greater than others.  I could give you more examples. 

This is absolutely like kozhaiyadi sandai. Please please my dear friends refrain
from personal attacks and blind arguments.

>What can
>we do when brahmins study, it goes to their head because they have a 
>pure soul and heart and i am not responsible for others , if it goes
>above their heads possibly, because they lack concentration. 

Sorry Raghu I don't get what you have said.

>    
>>getting admitted to professional colleges? If it is then that is why our
>>(your) people are not able to shine well in western countries. Pure theoretical
>    my dear friend,
>
>	i am sorry to say that you are once again wrong. what do you
>mean by " your people are not able to shine well in western countries"
>i can bet you that more 75% of the people who excel in western countries
>are brahmins. you can find brahmin anywhere in this world. Any society
>will accept brahmin because he is of no harm to anyone and he does
>things far better than others .

Once again I beg you guys to argue with facts and figures and don't go fighting
with caste bias and hatred.

>
> >knowledge doesn't help for long term. One should also have some practical 
>>knowledge. In my opinion one should not be given admission to any colleges
>>based purely upon ones marks/grades.  
>       what has this practical knowledge got to do with this reservation
>system. Any fellow who is given a training will gain knowledge in no
>time(brahmins) but for others (no time + del(time)).
>>Guindian,
>>C.RATHINAVELU
>
> me too buddy,
>
>	i am also a pround guindian.
>
>				raghu,balasubramanian
>p.s: this article was written in a hurry-burry basis. so bear with wrong
>english of any form.
>
>


Yet another Guindian,
M.P.Premkumar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil