MNS thugs vandalise my college

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
If you're going to tell me that I need to play a PC strategy game in order to understand this obscure point on Indian politics, my mocking laughter will still be ringing in your ears several days from now.

Well I have to admit that playing Europa Universalis and Victoria has taught me more factual information about the history of many obscure regions of the world, than school ever did.

[Darius871]

The Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista is vandalizing in India now? I thought they were defunct...

[aneeshm]

A few decades back, a lot of South Indians were migrating to Mumbai and other places in Maharashtra, because that's where the jobs were.

The Shiv Sena as a party came into its own at that time, by demanding that "Maharashtra and Mumbai should be for Marathi people". They engaged in rioting, tried to intimidate whom they called "outsiders", and in general were (and still are) a major nuisance. They received a lot of support from the locals, because of the "They took er jobs!" factor, and the fact that lot of the locals resented the Southies.

Fast forward to now. The MNS breaks off from the Shiv Sena, but has essentially the same ideology. They demand that 90% of seats in colleges should be reserved for people from Maharashtra. They were protesting against the "system", claiming that it favoured "North Indians" (who have become the new invaders, now that the South Indian menace is gone).

The system is pretty well-known here. 60% (or 70%, I forget which) is for people from Maharashtra, 15% for candidates from all over India (that's where I fit in), and around 20% or so "discretionary" admissions, in which they basically milk parents desperate for a seat in a good institute for exorbitant amounts of "donation" money. Often, the donations can to up to three or four times the total cost of the education - and then they have to pay fees, too. The government fixes the fees for all the students getting in on merit.

The system works, as people like me end up getting a subsidised education at the cost of the unworthy. And because of the fact that the government fixes the fees, they have to recover the money from somewhere.



Now these MNS thugs weren't happy with the 60% already for locals, so they go on a rampage, beat up office staff, wreck the office, and trash a few labs.


I am as Marathi as they come, and I find this totally ridiculous. First of all, there shouldn't be any reservation for locals - or, for that matter, anyone - at all, it should all be pure merit. Secondly, isn't 60% enough? Thirdly, WHAT THE HELL?

[SlowwHand]

Notherners causing problems. Sounds familiar.

[Asher]

All I know is the people in India who live in the south don't know how to use bathrooms.

[Darius871]

Yep, they just crap in the streets and eat nan all day.

[Lancer]

It's great that Indians are racist against their own race. That just solves so many problems.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by aneeshm

Now these MNS thugs weren't happy with the 60% already for locals, so they go on a rampage, beat up office staff, wreck the office, and trash a few labs.

So I asssume the labs they trashed would be mainly used by their own people anyway?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Darius871
Yep, they just crap in the streets and eat nan all day.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Notherners causing problems. Sounds familiar.

No doubt the Southerners are pissed that the northerners won't obey the Fugitive Slave Laws.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Lancer
It's great that Indians are racist against their own race. That just solves so many problems.

Yeah, I feel better now. At least our dumb American xenophobes only hate on actual foreigners stealing their jobs.

[SlowwHand]

Yeah. See? There's a lot of difference.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Maniac
Well I have to admit that playing Europa Universalis and Victoria has taught me more factual information about the history of many obscure regions of the world, than school ever did.

Yes, yes, I 'd say that qualifies you for perpetual belittlement.