Reservations ---- have they served their purpose.

Reservations based on caste are unique to India just like Tajmahal. They have been started with the purpose of getting social equality,60 yrs down the lane I personnally think there is a need for introspection . Have the reservations really searved their stated purpose(other than preserving the caste based political parties). I come from a village where there are alot of people (sc and st)who are still in the same conditions in which they were before,their children have not left for any jobs .Then whose children are getting better seats in colleges ?????
Do the children of an IAS officer or of any doctor or engineer need reservations(whatever be their caste)?The only people who need reservations are people who cant send their children to better schools .Give reservations to people in villages and to people in slums,only then India will achieve social equality.Education is a great leveller of caste or class based societies.Just see how europe and usa have broken the class systems in their countries, after second world war.
60 yrs of reservations have improved the lifes of many people the there is still a long way to go .
I think there is a need for audit on reservations.

what patient wants.

We don't care if the doctor we see knows the most, I want the doctor willing to learn or investigate the most
We don't care if the doctor we see has the nicest office, we want the doctor who is nicest while in his office, not just to his patients, to his staff as well.
We don't need a doctor who can talk with authority on everything he knows, we want a doctor who knows what he doesn't know.
We don't need the doctor who can solve everything, we need the doctor who can find someone who can, when help is needed.
We don't need the doctor who will do all the talking, we need a doctor who can listen.
We don't need a doctor who always agrees, but we need a doctor whose opinion I can respect when they do disagree.
Actually these are not my words. I "borrowed " them from " A BUGS LIFE blog by DAYANA.
I copied them so that they will serve as a remainder for me.

Gandhi -- Father of nation or not???

Recently while surfing the net I came across a forum about Mahatma Gandhi, almost half of the people were of view that Gandhi is wrong or all our problems were because of him.
Should he be included as a freedom fighter or not was the topic of discussion.
I think we are all armchair critics purely having beliefs based on propaganda and not on facts. If not with non-violence how else could you bind such varied cultures and beliefs into an idea called INDIA .
At lest for that he should be called Father Of The Nation.