This is funny and true, but on reflection, it hints at something tragic ...
The "types" this thread describes are deservedly out from those who can move/shake the GoI - mostly a bunch of people who thought they were as good as the Brits and masked their attitudes ... +
... under a professed desire to working for "progress" of the "Indian people". They couldn't care to know what we're like on the streets or in the hinterland. Or, maybe they did and which is why they wouldn't really care. And thus mostly "governed by proxy".
The problem ... +
... though, is that those who replaced them - claiming to be "true Indians" and "patriots" and "nationalists" - KNOW us only two well. Well enough to abuse and exploit as they do.
Maybe, that's us - fit to be lorded over and used and abused. It's either one or the other.
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In which case, this "Lutyens" cabal, in all its blinkered idiocy, was actually doing the best it could do - protect us from ourselves.
That's a tragedy.
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This illustrates tokenism and half-measures taken to the extreme. And a large part of the problem is the teaching community in these IIsT (and the like).
When you think of Reservations for a particular class of people, you also have to anticipate the problems ... +
... they might face in adapting to the expectations of making it to and thriving in an atmosphere they have no exposure to (socially/culturally).
"If you got in here, you're expected to *get it* on your own and by yourself" - does not cut it. And it's self-serving AF...
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... because it excuses the teaching community from actually thinking through what they are REQUIRED to do - to make sure the "reserved" category of students cope, thrive and succeed.
When you decide you're going to take affirmative action, you've got to anticipate ... +
Done reading. Seems a bit out of date, with the references to "blogs", but it isn't. What it describes is now mainstream media practice.
Excellent read. Helped affirm intuitions that built up in me over the past 3-4 years as well as fill in gaps re: the mechanics. #MustRead
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Also helped assert a sound basis to some rules I've found myself adopting online e.g. on here:
If anything is a trigger, I refuse to act on it. The check is always what I feel - if angry, outraged or shocked, the reflex-in-training is to feel the emotion and Do Nothing.
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Reaction from me does not come cheap and certainly not easily or so frequently. If someone wants it, they have to work harder/do better.
If something's rapidly getting traction, ignore it till the dust settles. As it is, there's sweet f'all I can do about something already ...+
...between 5-15 minutes. Typically, there seems to be only one registration desk per centre. The injection takes less than 5 minutes. A 30 minute observation wait is mandated.
The numbers of *immediate* AEFIs following injection suggest an infinitesimally minuscule risk. +
But you wouldn't want to have the observation area unsupervised by a trained medical staff. So, it's possible to hold a mid-sized count of people safely at that stage.
Ideally, if I were to hold 10 at a go in the observation area for 30 minutes. I would need to get 10 ...+
Most states now have their latest TPR > 10% (contra WHO ref level of 5% and below). Average now risen to 19%+ on the higher side of the inner 1st-3rd quantile range from 14%-23%
TPR growth negative for CT, DL, JH, MH, MP and UP
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