Other day i was watching this movie, very relevant subject nicely put through. I just started to wonder the same person who talks about rights of female population, many times is not treating some one oppressed in other form fairly and is very happy to continue to do same. Many times we are doing same in some other for to which we oppose in one form. Lets say some lady from rich class may be very vocal about female rights but may not view the basic human rights of poor in same way. I can help but mention similar irony represented in movie "Matru ki bijli ka mandola" Anushka Sharma giving instruction to her help to clean thoroughly in order to prepare room for artists from Africa and says they are also human.
Oppression doesn't have a gender, class or caste. The same low caste person who is oppressed by other caste people goes to his house beats his wife black and blue and the same lady while acting as mother in law breaks limbs of her daughter in law. The upper caste person who had beaten the other person may go to police station and get manhandled for nothing. Big issue is when we are in position of advantage its very difficult to see the oppression, with this thought i remember one hindi poem which describes this thought very aptly: that we should not ask about taste of iron to blacksmith but to horse who has to carry it in his mouth. These people talking about reservation on social media are like blacksmith talking about taste of iron. Some other day i was reading one social media share that till day Lion doesn't learn to right/tell story, hunters will have all the glory. So these people who still have the upper hand in society will only see the evil of reservation and see it as discrimination. Reservation in India may not reaped optimum fruits so far, because i still see someone from SC who used to be very brilliant student helping his father with construction by carrying bricks building my house and in the end not able to reach where he could have reached if he was son of someone little better off. I still remember people of my grandfather's generation challenging their grandchildren's manhood which allows the people from other caste to sit along side them. So reservation has failed and it need to more effective but not in same way as shared by few on social media, it needs tweaks to be more effective to reach its goal, it needs changes, it needs debate in order to get desired results but until then I am happy to have little flawed one rather than none.
