Caste reservation is one of the fundaments of Indian education system and there are many glaring cases of foul play against the general caste students. It is not always merit that reigns supreme but the sympathy you derive from the autocratic government for belonging to the backward classes helps you win half the battle. Trying to track down the sole problem of Indian education system is like wild goose chasing because the whole set-up is porous and there’s a frailty in our dissent. Here are a few examples of the struggles that a general caste student is put through in an engineering college amidst the badgering of caste reservation:

While the caste reservation eats the part of the general category, you always have to play the second fiddle to those belonging to backward classes when it comes to selection.

No matter how much more a general caste student mugs-up ad scores better, a caste certificate is always there smirking at him.

A general category student can’t afford to be mediocre because he will have to settle for less but a reservation category student will always get away with averageness.

A reservation category student is entitled to the privileges because of his birth and he gets addicted to all the freebies which incapacitate them to work hard. Whereas, a general category student is left sleep eluded over semesters and decent jobs in campus interviews.

The threat is only swelling as everyday new communities are claiming to be socially/economically subdued and vying for a share of reservation.

It is a dungeon which only leads to frustration for a general category student while a solicitous setting for a caste student who will achieve free supplies of facilities and relax.

A general caste student has to bear with the injustice of unfair competition even if we know that what will happen to our civilization if an Engineer who passed with 50% marks builds a bridge in later years.

A general caste student has to pay for what atrocities their forefathers have committed which is equal to the instance of World War 2 when whole Germany had to bear the brunt of the foolhardiness a part of Germany has shown. Hitler, being a smart ruler, transmitted their anger to evacuate the oppressing forces.

The general caste students are more prone to suffer from anxiety and depression just before the exam, studies say.

A general category student, especially an Engineering student is put through sleepless nights when he is supposed to enjoy and cherish his college life.

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Every society needs laws, rules and regulations for cultivating and governing a civilized mass.

However, irrespective of how well thought and researched any legal convention is, at times laws and social conventions might feel like just a burden or rather an imposition.

This is not to say, we need to do away with law-making and lawful societies altogether, but rather to instill or probably restore the thought that what feels right in your heart, mind and soul shouldn’t need legal nod of yes!

Same-sex Relationships:

Illogical norms in the society are just enough to kill the souls and happiness of homosexuals every day. So, at least the laws should be in their favour, to legally protect them from people with sickening mentality.

Age Parameters:

If you are a man in India, you can vote from 18 years onwards, get married after you turn 21 but you can indulge in alcohol consumption only after you turn 25. Does. Not. Make. Sense. And same goes for you if you are a woman, except you are deemed fit for tying the knot two years before your male counterparts!

Reservations:

The only cases where reservation is justified are the ones that guarantee opportunity to talent, skill and aptitude. It’s heartbreaking to see undeserving ‘reserved for’ people conveniently getting ahead on professional or academic front while the deserving ‘general’ counterparts figure ways to do the same.

Protests:

Though there is no act that dismisses ‘peaceful gathering of people without arms to express protest over anything’, yet often such groups are targeted upon by ruling politicians in the name of ‘threat to social harmony’.

Prostitution:

Sex workers have no identity, not by their choice but by law. Their lives, already filled with innumerous social stigmas, are devoid of any legal protection, more or less. Their profession often comes in the way if they try to claim even the most basic human rights.

Countless Taxes:

If you go out to dine, your restaurant bill will comprise not only the bill for the food you ordered but also VAT, Service Tax and often Service Charge. This is just one example of different kind of taxes that are levied on a regular basis on the citizens. The list of taxes is long, and we would find it justifiable only if the money, taken from us, reflected in the country’s development and not the luxuries of politicians.

Many other laws related to adultery, divorce, powers of security groups, etc, are equally illogical and suppressing. The problem is not just with the laws, that are visibly outdated, but also with the ones that are so unclear that they are often twisted and wrongly used. Adding to them are the hate-worthy social conventions in our largely patriarchal society that curbs people’s right to just be.

India, our motherland, is an independent country but the sad legal conventions do not let us to feel so. Untill we do away with them, we won’t be truly free.

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