Friday, July 21, 2006
Swashraya SFI - Shape of Things to Come
With the new twists and turns in the commerce driven education sector in Kerala the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), called SFI, got nasty. It was perhaps a spontaneous reaction towards what is seen as gross injustice. Though the anger has been officially disowned by the organisation, senior most leaders expressing their views against it, the fact remains. Without legitimate venues of redressal things may go out of hand. That is a message no one can miss.
The labyrinths of legality cannot hide the truth. That the education sector in Kerala has been monopolised by the affluent minority communities, especially the Christian segment, that in the name of their being a minority. It is every one's knowledge that they are not minorities in Kerala, going by the international standards that a group can be called minority only when they are less than 10 percent of the population, neither are they weak. The Christian community in Kerala happen to be economically and politically very powerful.
It is only because of the disorganisation in the Hindu community that the Christian segment is able to have their way. With the Christian segment controlling the mass media in Kerala all eforts to organise the Hindu community ends up in failure. It is a double bind and it is in this situation that the CPI(M) lead LDF governmnet has come forward with a new piece of legislation. What was seemingly aimed at bringing in a semblance of justice. But the Christian priests have come out crying wolf. How they are interested in commercial education, instead of spirituality is a question no one asks. Things are well understood.
To ordinary people it is like the Malayalam saying 'Asarichiye Kadichathum Pora, Ari Thinnathum Pora, Pinnem Pattikka Murumuruppu'. For the Christian educational institutions, lions share of Kerala education sector, have all along been getting money from the public exchequer, public money, for running their institutions. They sell the jobs, getting the salaries in advance, what the governmnet later pays in installments. They post their kith and kin and make money. Also brainwash the Hindu students making them slaves. It went on and on, now they want more.
The implications of the present trend are visible to all, with majority of those able to access higher education and professional education belonging to the minority communities soon there shall be a Kerala where the upper echelons of society will only have minority community members. What is already visible, though now in limits. The have nots and the proleteriate shall all be the Hindus. The weaker sections of the minority communities themselves shall find this a tragedy as they too shall be out from the scene. Economic might is becoming right and it is no wonder that physical might comes as answer.
What predicts disaster for what is now a peaceful society in Kerala. The travails of economically poor but smart students have been studied by many agencies and the children of the stinking rich dictate terms in the educational institutions. To them education is no need, they are rich and secure anyway. The others from poor families fail to remain with dignity and the peer group pressure on children to behave like the richer ones cause turmoil in many families. These are young people who come to harbour hatred and sooner than later it is to explode. Time everyone took note of the fuming vulcano.
The labyrinths of legality cannot hide the truth. That the education sector in Kerala has been monopolised by the affluent minority communities, especially the Christian segment, that in the name of their being a minority. It is every one's knowledge that they are not minorities in Kerala, going by the international standards that a group can be called minority only when they are less than 10 percent of the population, neither are they weak. The Christian community in Kerala happen to be economically and politically very powerful.
It is only because of the disorganisation in the Hindu community that the Christian segment is able to have their way. With the Christian segment controlling the mass media in Kerala all eforts to organise the Hindu community ends up in failure. It is a double bind and it is in this situation that the CPI(M) lead LDF governmnet has come forward with a new piece of legislation. What was seemingly aimed at bringing in a semblance of justice. But the Christian priests have come out crying wolf. How they are interested in commercial education, instead of spirituality is a question no one asks. Things are well understood.
To ordinary people it is like the Malayalam saying 'Asarichiye Kadichathum Pora, Ari Thinnathum Pora, Pinnem Pattikka Murumuruppu'. For the Christian educational institutions, lions share of Kerala education sector, have all along been getting money from the public exchequer, public money, for running their institutions. They sell the jobs, getting the salaries in advance, what the governmnet later pays in installments. They post their kith and kin and make money. Also brainwash the Hindu students making them slaves. It went on and on, now they want more.
The implications of the present trend are visible to all, with majority of those able to access higher education and professional education belonging to the minority communities soon there shall be a Kerala where the upper echelons of society will only have minority community members. What is already visible, though now in limits. The have nots and the proleteriate shall all be the Hindus. The weaker sections of the minority communities themselves shall find this a tragedy as they too shall be out from the scene. Economic might is becoming right and it is no wonder that physical might comes as answer.
What predicts disaster for what is now a peaceful society in Kerala. The travails of economically poor but smart students have been studied by many agencies and the children of the stinking rich dictate terms in the educational institutions. To them education is no need, they are rich and secure anyway. The others from poor families fail to remain with dignity and the peer group pressure on children to behave like the richer ones cause turmoil in many families. These are young people who come to harbour hatred and sooner than later it is to explode. Time everyone took note of the fuming vulcano.
