Reservations

The storm of reservations and anti-reservation protest doesn't seem to subside and is gaining momentum with every single passing day.
My concern is how our politicians treat us as vote bank and nothing else. By raising communal tensions, by fanning communal hatred, showing the carrot of reservations etc. the politicians want to gather as much votes as possible so that they can stay in power.
Why don't any political party raise the issues of population, water, illiteracy, pollution, infrastructure, health, education, crimes and unemployment? Has everything become so stable in our country that politicians don't even touch these issues in their whole career spanning not less than 80 years?
Is religion, caste, creed, region, language and community more important than people dying due to floods and famines year after year? The thousands of farmers committing suicide have no weightage in front of few castes who need the status of OBC? Come on man it has been more than 50 years since we have achieved freedom and barring a few selected cities almost all the cities have reached the depths of under development and unemployment. City like Kanpur which was once called The Manchester of India has no major mills running, roads have become deep trenches as if to fend off enemy attack and electricity supply is so consistently inconsistent that every single house (ofcourse only those who can afford) has either a generator or an invertor. There has been sharp increase in crimes due to the huge unemployment but both center and state government are in a mode of deep sleep from which they never want to return into the consciousness.
I would have been happier had people come to the roads protesting for all these issues along with the anti-reservation protests, but (sigh) what am I myself doing? Just blogging and cribbing...............
Anyways I hope that our next generation understands these vote bank policies of the political parties and instead of voting for caste or religion, vote for party which raises genuine and people friendly issues.

Childhood dreams

So my school friend Arindam made his childhood dream come true of having a Yamaha key-board. But what was my childhood dream? From a list of many dreams which I used to have long time ago I could find only few of them still floating somewhere in my mind, though none of them seem to be possible. One of my dream was to be an astronaut. Wow what a dream I had!
Floating in the space connected by a chord to a space-ship or jumping on the martian land. Well that was one hell of a dream, isn't it?
Another dream was of being an astronomer. You must be wondering as to why every dream related to space?
But as a child I used to be really amazed by the vast expanse of the sky and the twinkling stars. Lying on my back at the top of the roof I used to look into the dark sky for hours, sometimes lucky enough to see a shooting star or an orbiting satellite. I really wanted to find some new star or planet, but .........
During our childhood we dream a lot many things most of which we slowly forget as we grow up. We find new dreams and targets as we keep growing up and slowly just one dream remains of getting fatter and fatter pay-check.
Life would have been better had there only been childhood and childhood dreams!