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Re: Our 'lust' to educate the poor (and spare the rich!)
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What is the issue? Is it catcthing the people on wrong foot? And if that
being so what is the ultimate goal?I would not indulge in anything that does
not lead to a GAIN. Even if it is for crying out aloud,I would say that
there is no reason to lose hope. One can yet do it.And as regards to
communist way of doing it,well there is nothing that I can say simply
because I feel that communism is equivalent to a crime on humanity. I say
this because the quint essential which is an Individual does not exist in
Marx's work
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From: Dr. Sanjeev Sabhlok <sabhlok@yahoo.com>
To: <debate@indiapolicy.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Our 'lust' to educate the poor (and spare the rich!)
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> From: Vamsi Musunuru <vamsi@siliconcorp.com>
> >
> > As for the "poor" people, they can't buy things
> because they don't
> have
> > jobs. So, remove the obstacles for creating jobs.
>
> > Isn't the Government not out to take advantage of
> the poor
> > through > corruption, etc.? Then, where is the
> check on its power?
>
> v. well said. In this subdivision where I work now as
> Observer, 27 -
> obviously poor - naxalite (Maoist) supporters have
> been jailed till tomorrow
> after the elections, who were potential disrupters of
> the elections. The
> cause of their boycotting elections is very obvious.
> You and I too, would,
> if you lived the way these folks do.
>
> If a top political leader is only arrested (not even
> jailed) the entire
> country trembles. Remember Indira Gandhi in 1977 (or
> was it 1978?)? The
> powerful do not get jailed easily. 100 top lawyers run
> to their rescue. They
> are given 6 hours to pack up their suitcases and given
> a VIP rest house with
> airconditioners as jail. The poor are picked up like
> goats and animals and
> herded in the back of a truck and dumped into wretched
> jails on the
> slightest suspicion. And shot like ducks in a shooting
> competition.
>
> Compel the corrupt and powerful to be honest, if you
> advocates of compulsion
> dare! I demand the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT to honest
> leadership. Please put it
> into the Constitution and enforce it if you have the
> guts!!!!!
>
> Why chase after the blood of the poorest of the poor?
> Why do you torture the
> poor in the name of improving them, and spare the
> rascals and corrupt?
> Simply because they are your brethren, living in big
> houses in big cities
> and the poor are anonymous fools who apparently do not
> know what is best for
> them? HOW very convenient!
>
> I know that most of you do not know the implications
> of your argument, but
> this is what it amounts to: sheletering the rich, the
> rascals and the
> corrupt, and torturing the poorest of the poor. In
> your 'hunger' to provide
> half-baked education to the poor, you forget the CAUSE
> of this poverty.
>
> Given this reality -- of the poorest of the poor being
> jailed - mostly on
> unsustaiable charges - and frequently tortured /
> extorted of their little
> savings, with their wives mistreated and children left
> orphans -- WHY would
> I ever support compulsion on poor parents for
> education? I would rather
> compel every political leader to publish his/ her
> property returns and tax
> statements, would rather pay teachers who work in
> remote areas Rs. 50,000 a
> month, and teachers in Calcutta and Delhi Rs. zero per
> month, and so on. You
> get my point?
>
> I HATE this business of troubling the poor whose lives
> are already a burden
> of misery untold. Come with me to the villages and get
> a reality check on
> the problems of the poor.
>
> And btw, WHERE is the exact law on compulsion that I
> asked for, weeks ago?
> Please tell me precisely WHAT any of you mean by
> compulsion. How will I
> implement it tomorrow if I were in charge of Education
> in my state? Just
> like Universal Civil Code, this is so much shallow
> rhetoric without any
> substance.
>
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