as i see it

>Mail originally from Akshay Baheti, Final Year Medical Student at GS
>Medical College & KEM Hospital.

>He was a part of the protest on May 13, 2006 that saw police
>brutality at its worst. Read on and let all your friends know the
>truth.
>
>We Indians are basically a very decent, sober and non-violent lot.
>We don't expect too much, we don't demand too much, and we are quite
>adjusting in nature. We will bear the local train crowd, we will
>bear the dirty toilets and pot-holed roads, we will bear corrupt
>officials and incompetent governance, we are actually a dream public
>for any politician.
>
>Whenever any injustice is done, we all feel very strongly against
>it. We will sit in our drawing rooms and discuss it threadbare with
>anyone and everyone. Nowadays, with the advent of sms es, its become
>even more convenient for us. We can message our protest and silence
>all scruples, feel that we have done our bit. But if someone is
>protesting against it in front of us, we wont join in; we are after
>all a non-violent and decent lot. Some of us become cynical over the
>years, blame everything on the system and just live insulated lives;
>or just go abroad.
>
>The injustice now becomes a law; it now slowly becomes a part of our
>lives. We get adjusted to it and learn to live with it. But the
>power-hungry politicians can never stop. So they decide to test our
>decency again. So they increase the injustice for their selfish
>political gains. Most of us go through the same routine again, more
>drawing-room discussions, more sms es and emails, more frustration,
>more blaming the system; and then will again get used to it. And the
>same cycle will repeat again and again. Till of course all limits
>are crossed, our limit of tolerance and decency is reached. When we
>realize that just how terrorists cannot be dealt with humane
>behaviour and tolerance, so also the politicians. That its time to
>shed off the garb of decency and non-violence (used to hide our
>basic laziness, indifference and cowardice) and take some action.
>
>The Youth For Equality has decided. That the time is RIGHT NOW. That
>we cannot let the politicians make us scapegoats for their
>incompetence in improving the lot of the reserved category for the
>past 59 years. That its time to stop them from ruining our beautiful
>country anymore.
>
>It time for you to make your decision. Whether the time is now, or
>it is when 50% reservations will be implemented in jobs, or whether
>when they make reservations in education 70% (its there in Tamil
>Nadu already), or when they make it 100%. Or whether its time for
>you to shift abroad.
>
>I faced the brutality of the police in front of the Governor's
>residence today as the whole nation watched. How the police
>mercilessly ran even after girls to beat them up. How one policeman
>beat us to the extent that he broke his lathi. I saw how the DCP
>lied without batting an eyelid that we peacefully protesting
>students were trying to get inside the Governor's house. If even
>this doesn't make your blood boil, then I don't know what will. If
>you still don't come out to support us, it is we and not the
>politicians who will lead this country to its ruin. Remember –
>Democracy is the best way of ensuring that the public gets exactly
>what it deserves.
>