This is Part I of our series on the history of the SC/ST Act and reservations in India on Clear Cut with J. Sai Deepak.
@jsaideepak joins @infinitchy to unpack one of India’s most consequential issues of tracing the history and evolution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.
In the episodes ahead, we’ll dive deeper with facts and data into reservations, misuse, due process, equality before law and other burning legal and social questions.
A lot more coming soon!
Watch Part I ⬇️
https://t.co/SqMX6GNGR5
A Dalit brother is also pointing out how the Constitution is discriminating against people from Savarna (general) castes. And I agree with him. My grandfather was a village headman (mukhiya). Then the government imposed a ban that general category people cannot contest elections, so even today we have not been able to contest elections. Equality 🥀
The entire SC/ST creamy layer argument rests on a flawed assumption: that a substantial section of SC/ST population is affluent enough to have cornered reservation benefits at the expense of genuinely deserving candidates.
The Bihar Caste Census puts a number to this assumption. Only 1.72% of SCs and 2.53% of STs earn above 50,000 per month. That is the upper bound of what anyone could reasonably call a creamy layer, and I am already stretching the definition generously, since the existing OBC creamy layer threshold of 8 lakh per annum translates to roughly 67K per month, well above 50K.
So the creamy layer within SC/ST, by the most liberal reading of available data, is approximately 2% of their population. This largely follows from Bihar census but caste data from Telangana is also similar.
Now consider what actually follows from that number. If the argument is to exclude all Paswans from reservation because 2% among them have done well, that is precisely the logic used against GCs: denying benefits to an entire group because a section of it is affluent. SC/ST communities will recognise this immediately and they will not accept it.
If the narrower plan is to exclude only the creamy layer individuals rather than the whole caste, you have reduced the reserved pool by 2%. The remaining 98% is still eligible, still reserved, and the replacement queue behind them is deep and immediate. Not one additional seat opens for GC candidates. And at 2% turnover per generation, you are mathematically waiting 50 generations before reservation has run its course through the population. That is not reform. That is a rabbit hole with no exit.
This is why my position is straightforward. Abolish all reservations, including EWS reservation, which is constitutionally dubious on its own terms. Replace it with direct economic assistance to those who genuinely need it, regardless of caste. Target poverty, not identity. That is the only argument that is intellectually honest
This is not a soccer stadium. It is a church.
This is not US. This is Chennai, India.
This is an Indian branch of Pentecostal assemblies of God denomination.
Just last year, their US headquarters faced a massive abuse scandal. Around 200 pastors were convicted of raping 500 children. In 2023, their director resigned over sexual abuse and trafficking of minors.
After losing face among US public, they seem to be concentrating their operations in India, which explains the massive foreign funding needed to build this Church. Does India provide safe haven for abusers and pedophiles as they are protected by minority appeasement?
I am still a Hindu Nationalist.
I know more about Hinduism in its manifest aspects than the entire pro reservation brigade put together.
Asking for equal rights is not separatism.
You can call us separatists the day GCs ask for a separate nation.
In 1835:
British recorded 41 lakh students in traditional Indian education systems. These students studied Science, Maths, art, Sanskrit and Urdu.
52% of the students were from communities that are identified as OBC today.
Only 16% were Brahmins.
STOP peddling the myth of 100% Brahmin reservation. That never happened.
IIM Rohtak Director Dheeraj Sharma analyzed Bollywood movies from 1960 to 2010, and according to his report:
- 58% of corrupt politicians had Brahmin surnames.
- 62% of corrupt businessmen had Vaishya surnames.
- 88% of Sikhs were portrayed as laughable characters.
- 74% of Muslims were portrayed as strongly religious and honest.
- 78% of promiscuous women had Christian names.
Pakistan was featured in 20 movies, of which 18 portrayed Pakistanis as welcoming, courteous, open-minded, and courageous, even though this was far removed from reality.
However, Bollywood portrayed India's internal affairs, its society, judicial system, and various castes and religions in an extremely stereotypical and biased manner.
आज का लाइव ऐसा होगा
फिर कभी नहीं जैसा होगा
एट्रोसिटी एक्ट के खोलेंगे धागे
रख कर दलितों को ही आगे
चुन-चुन कर वीडियो लाएँगे
सब तथ्य दिखाए जाएँगे
मंचों के बोल भी आएँगे
हर इमेज सजाए जाएँगे
सवर्णों की भी बेटी होती है
उसकी भी इज्जत होती है
वो राह चलती वेश्या नहीं
मैं चुप सुनने वाला प्रेश्या नहीं
हर रंग दिखाऊँगा तुमको
धो-धो के सुखाऊँगा सबको
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मित्रों, आप सबके स्नेह और समर्थन का आभार! मेरी बहन आपकी भी बहन है, और आपकी बहन मेरी भी बहन है। मेरे वचन तब कटु हुए जब किसी ने उसे राह चलती किसी वस्तु की तरह देखा। मेरी बहन का ऑब्जेक्टिफिकेशन किसी नारीवादी को नहीं दिखा, पर जब एक कथित रावण समर्थक को मैंने लक्षित करके कुछ कहा तो तुम्हें ध्यान आया कि मेरी मानसिकता सड़ी हुई है।
मैं जहाँ से आता हूँ, यदि यह बात मुझे कोई सामने से कहता तो मेरे ऊपर यह धाराएँ नहीं लगती, वो कोई और धारा होती। मैं आत्मनियंत्रण वाला व्यक्ति हूँ और ट्रोल की ट्रोलिंग को उसी तरह से थामना जानता हूँ।
बाकी, जो भी होगा वह प्रारब्ध है। पर हाँ, सवर्णों की बेटियाँ किसी भी शोषित-वंचित के डिजिटल उपभोग या विकृत यौन मानसिकता के प्रयोग की वस्तु नहीं।
उत्तराखंड हमारे हाथ से निकल गया है...
अगर हरिद्वार, केदारनाथ आदि स्थानों का भ्रमण करना चाहते हो तो अभी कर ले। भविष्य में यह संभव नहीं होगा... 😟🫢😐😞
जिनके दिमाग में अभी भी धर्म निरपेक्ष का भूत कहीं छुपा हो तो ये वीडियो अवश्य देख लें, ये कोई राजनीतिक मैसेज नहीं।