Reservation based on Castes / religions in India..

This is currently the talk of every town/village in India (my country). I really did not want to discuss this in my blog here but then I do not have any other blog dedicated for this kind of subject.
I have never really understood the caste/religion based reservation system in todays scenario. Few questions really comes to my mind when I read about all this.

How much sense it really make to have this kind of reservervation system now? This systems was introduced 50-60 years ago. It really made sense at that point of time since our society was really divided based on all this crap and an upliftment was required. But again it was meant for only next 30 years. It was not scraped afterwards because of our great politicans.

When Mr. Arjun Singh (whoever he is, am not sure) came out with this idea, did he make any kind of study/analysis before? why does not he present the number/analysis to the whole nation about his study. At least, I will be really happy to buy his ideas if he has concrete numbers with him which show that its really required. In God we trust, rest of us have to present the numbers to prove the point.

What kind of purpose it serve? A person is characterised by his persona not by caste or religion or any geographical boundry he belongs to. Also a caste / religion does not necessarily represent the economic status of a person. I agree that even in today's world, the society in some places of my country is really divided based on all this crap. But then there are lot of people who do not believe in all this and do not want anybody to believe either. Then why our politicians want to create a bigger divide in our society based on all this? just to keep their chair safe.

What kind of system we need? I know that in my country lot of of people are below poverty line. Their kids, instead of studying or getting the quality education, goes to work. Why not our politicians think about them? They are the people who need help irrespective of their caste/religions/region. May be we need a free education system in place for them or may be even reservation. Since having a free quality education is a distant dream as of now.

I recently read an article where Lalu mentioned about having a reservation for upper caste people. He is the maan!! Infact the right man to lead the nation!! ha ha :) kidding.

One of my friend Vivek has written an article about this. You can read it here .

what makes a politician ?

I have been watching the primaries in US . Specially the democratic ones. It was a pretty good race. Sometimes the squabbling, between the two made me wonder, are politicians different at different places in the world? Can Lalu or Chandra babu, win primaries in US. Can Clinton or Obama win elections in India? Is there a fundamental difference between them? If a good and determined man ( a non politician) ever takes the highest office, can he change the course of the nation? So in shortwhat makes a politician?