I had been studying a thought since quite a few days. But to be confronted with it in reality was to feel it. And it hit me hard, very hard.
The picture on the left was taken in the YFE rally on 28th May at Azaad maidan.
Look closely.
There is a dark dirty boy in dark dirty clothes, holding a dark dirty sack. He was picking up used plastic water glasses. I was listening to a very inspiring speech when my eyes caught him and I felt someone squeezed my heart inside!
Here we are, so-called liberated minds, in thousands, demanding what is rightfully ours, and in another adjacent world this boy exists, unaware of the word 'right'.
I feel anger...intense anger, which diffuses into a feeling of helplessness.
You can reserve a seat in UG colleges for HSC passed children. You can reserve a seat in PG courses for doctors, engineers and other graduates. You can reserve a seat in a firm for a minimally qualified candidate. You may call them backward.
Where is his seat? Or is he too forward to deserve a seat?
HE is backward in every sense of the word. Economically, socially, emotionally, spiritually... For heaven's sake! He doesn't even know that he has a RIGHT to be educated!
Why? Not because of his past sins. Only because of his family background which is as rotten as the crap he carries on his back.
Are you pro-reservation for him?
Its so hard on my conscience to see those pro-reservation people declaring openly how greedy they are in the disguise of supporting reservations for the other remaining 'backwards' of their castes. This is the backward India you Goddamn pretenders! Do you care?
Truth is, nobody cares. Pro, anti, neutral... Nobody cares. We are all greedy, corrupt, twisted souls and this world needs an enormous dose of humanity...
It saddens me...