Its hardly 5 days since I left my work, my friends and Chennai , and  I was worried about my next course of action… And its hardly 5 days and now here I am sitting in my room, enjoying homely food, being proud that I have finally become a true keralite.  Still confused at this statement ? – well for once, now I am educated, jobless, sitting at home doing nothing but eat-sleep-eat, and I am still confident of making it big sometime in the near future. What else can qualify me for an authentic “mallu” category. – May be a “mundu” and some “shouting-slogans” will be icing on the cake….In last 5 days I suddenly felt like I missed a lot of action being in a boring, workaholic, growth-oriented TamilNadu. Well let me explain more:-

 As soon as I switched on the TV after reaching home , I thought 3rd world war has started. But it took me 20 seconds to read that it was just a protest in Kerala against the new textbooks for class VII in kerala state syllabus, as some people thought it was influenced by communist ideas. There is always a reason for every Indian to be on the streets. But the mallus show the maximum emotion and excitement. Some books and effigies were burnt and losses were less than Rs. 2lakh. Considering the number of people on streets ( Enough to fill Saravana stores), Its surprising that nobody was injured and everybody enjoyed it. Of course you need to do something when you are job less. And any idea why most of the mallu’s living in Kerala are jobless? I think ,  One main reason being that many don’t have work, and the reason for no work being that all the factory owners ran away due to strikes and more strikes means no-more work. Didn’t you get the crux ??? well its a vicious circle encircling Kerala for about 50years. So now some people have found a new alternative to circumvent this problem, ie to work outside Kerala. (I too fell in that category until last week).  Finally I realised that 90% of the protesters were actually protesting against their own class VII results (which many would have flunked) and expressing emotions which they couldn’t for the past 10-15 years . Soon I started flipping channels.

 

Soon I was in Rajasthan.  So its not a big deal whether you are in Rajasthan or Kerala. In Rajasthan,  a section of people are ACTUALLY protesting so that government will bring their caste in to the “economically backward section” – EBC.  C’mon guys, the leader of this so group came in a private chopper, took the state under ransom for about a week and finally got the benefit of  reservation for his group. But at 69% reservation, its not a big deal after all, if you do the math right. Now that almost every caste in Rajasthan is under some reservation or the other, it all eventually breaks down to literally no reservation situation. I am now wondering what will happen to the agnostics and atheists etc. May be the remaining 31% will go to them soon.

 

But seriously these people are missing the bigger picture. As long as you depend on reservation, you will never be competitive. When will the government learn this fundamental rule ? The government is not tackling the larger issue and by giving immediate solutions like this, they are only making the matter worse. 

And as I change more channels – WOW ,  a new protest in Punjab … truly , This is also one reason why everyone from Jammu to Kerala is a true INDIAN. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS:  Just for the records (and for the curious souls out there ), I was not fired. I had to quit to pursure my passion.