dear prudent brahmin brothers,
From time immorial brahmins are considered to be intelectuals who eked their livelyhood by 'unchavrithi' as stipulated in the sripture. During middle ages, many brahmins sliped away from learning scriptures(vedas) and began to do other jobs like temple priest, conducting religious worships at private places(prohits),helpers, cooking jobs,school teacher, etc. Only few occupied 'ministerial posts' in some small kingdoms when kings recognised the wisdom of some brahmins.Thus most of the professions done by brahmins are not elite or lucrative one and they all along lived humble life. However, during British period some brahmins began to come up and could do /lucrative professions, estabished bus services, factories, maintained large acres of land as mirasdars, land lords, etc. By their intelegence they could enter professions like Doctor, Advocate, College Lecturers, Auditors, etc. During post independence and after the so called dravidian rule came in to power, brahmins' lucratic business were plundered in the form of Nationalisation of buses, land reforms etc, and slowly communal wise reservation was scraped and finally rule of reservation has come in to existance. The posts of Karnams/maniams posts were abolished in one stroke for obvious reason. Thus in various fields, the existance of brahmins were wiped out. Originally as per supreme court orders, reservation should not exceed 50% of any posts/seats etc, but this has been flouted for a long time. Some years back when certain 'well wishers' fought in the supreme court and the court inisted its earlier ruling, and the state government created additional seats in colleages as tentative provision but the case, i believe, has not come to any finality.( there is no improvement in the reservation of jobs) In such condition the political leaders of various communites championing for increasing quota for their communities. None of the political parties are bold enough to accept the plight of the majority of of brahmin community whose status dwindles down decade after decade.One should not think that entire 'open competition' seats are reserved for brahmin community. In OC category itself many communities (which are supposed to be forward)have been included. All B.C., MBC, S.C/S.T. etc candidates who could get high marks are accomodated first in OC bearth then only their quota are filled.More over the critieria fixed for OCs is very high and only 0.5% of brahmin community could achieve. Only those people go abroad and find happy life there. Our unfortunate other brahmin brothers who could not secure even 1 mark more are rejected. Do we aware how many government jobs are occupied by young brahmin boys now a days. The statistics dwindles year after year as only retirement takes and no intake takes place. All brahmins now in various Central/State jobs are in the retireing age group and there will not be any representation in the next decade. Hence equality and reservation exclusively for brahmins are absolutely essential. Our associations should strive for this end.
chandru,
i think at this moment, the brahmin community is as prosperous as it ever was.
yes, there is a lament at the loss of government jobs. but who wants them? has not the paradigm changed in favour of private sector and jobs abroad?
how many of us moan the denial of a medical seat? 25 years ago my cousin with 94% in PUC was denied admission in medical college. instead she opted to do biology, and without going too much into detail, i would like to tell you that she is in line for VP at one of the foremost biomedic companies in the world based in USA.
every hinderance is an opportunity and where there is easy ways out, we have not done as well we could have. in singapore, for example, where there is no discrimination, the outstanding students are chinese and not tambrams. the same goes in the usa. yes a fair number do well, but many children of high achieving parents just 'get by'.
i think adversity brings out the best. i have asking to identify what the poverty level is here and what we define poverty as. the poverty in our community is our own doing ie the middle class. we want the exclusive brahmin serviced cooks, companions for our parents and (ofcourse) chavundis.
did you see the ads here in this forum, for how many exclusive tambram cooks and caretakers? i have seen my relatives in chennai, many expressing indignation, at the price of a tambram help. we the middle and upper class tambrams think we are entitled to service from the poorer tambrams.
i personally think, the most envy and hatred of tambram community as a whole, comes from that soft underbelly of our society - the cooks, chavundis and caretakers. the good news is that these are a declining breed. most of these's sons and daughters aspire to be higher status in life.
the government may give reservations, but it will be the middle class finnagling the papers, who will benefit and heave a sigh of relief that they spent only fifty thousand ruppees for their son or daughter's education instead of five lakhs.
personally, the government can keep all the reservations to their pet communities. we can get ahead. just let us follow the examples of jains, gujjus, sindhis, parsis and become self reliant. the pen and brain is any day mightier than the brawn. let us use it to the maximum.
thank you.
