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Sorry Mom.

  This is the story of my mother who suffered in silence and bore all the pain and for the “better future” of her children. Mom, this blog is dedicated to you. You are still the miracle, the sensation, the amazing magic and the love of my life. Writing this blog is making me cry but the fact that my mom has suffered for this “better future” of mine is nothing better than missing her every single day of my life. How exactly am I benefitted from this “better future” without you in it?           My mother, a daughter, a sister, and a wife, and a good neighbor. I never spoke of what happened to her, what she had been through. It was the second attempt of suicidal murder that took her away from her children, her parents, her siblings and her friends and mates. She was brave. She was not a coward until she had that thought which made her think that her children would be better without her. What led her to that life taking thought of hers? Th...

Minorities-Whose Revile Became Shelter

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Indian constitution is the largest written constitution of any country on earth. Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment and in politics. Based on provisions in the Indian constitution it allows the Indian government to set reserved quotas or seats which lower the qualification needed in exam, job openings and so on for “Socially and economically backward citizens”. The constitution which w as adopted by the constituent assembly of India in November 1949 and came into force on 26 January 1950 with no reservation of seats in legislative bodies and public services for religious minorities as originally planned. In fact, reservation was only allowed for socially and economically backward classes. Nevertheless it turned out to be a caste-based reservation instead of class-based reservation, entirely making Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes economically backwards. Initially, the reser...