Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Ahmedabad, 30 April 2056: I attended the bash at the IIM-OBC Alumni Association to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the reservation of seats for OBCs (Other Backward Castes) in IIMs. Since I’m not an OBC, I was not supposed to attend, but at present, we MBFCs (Moderately Backward Forward Castes) together with the Non-Scheduled Tribes have a political alliance with the OBCs. We sipped champagne and talked about how so many of us had progressed from reserved seats in the IIMs to reserved jobs to reserved promotions. Unfortunately, the party broke up when a Non-scheduled Tribes faculty member objected to the OBCs dancing with all the pretty girls — he wanted equal opportunities for every caste at each dance. I pointed out that the Non-scheduled Tribes had exceeded the quota of champagne reserved for them. The party ended in a pitched caste battle.
1 May 2056: Today, I became president of the IIM Board of Directors. Under the present rotating presidency system, a member of each caste is made the president by turn. When it was the turn of the MBFCs for president, they had to choose me because I’m the only MBFC on the campus. True, I’m only the campus dhobi, but then every caste must be given an equal opportunity. All those centuries of oppression by the OSBFCs (Only Slightly Backward Forward Castes) and the OFCs (Other Forward Castes) must be rectified. I hope to restore the high standards at IIM — I overheard some foreigners calling it the Indian Institute of Morons, the other day.
2 May 2056: They’ve announced the cricket team for the series against Australia. I was overjoyed when they chose an MBFC man as captain. But my hopes were dashed when I realised he was a Most Backward Forward Caste and not a Moderately Backward Forward Caste. The selection committee lamented that it was gross discrimination that no member from the Jarowa tribe (the Stone Age tribe in the
Andamans) had ever found a place in the Indian cricket team. A squad has since been dispatched to the Andamans to capture a Jarowa tribal to play in the national team. I hope he will improve their performance — they had an innings defeat against the Maldives recently. I would have played myself except for the fact that I lost a leg some years ago when I was in hospital with a toothache and a doctor recruited through the Unscheduled Caste quota extracted my leg instead of my tooth.
3 May 2056: There are too many NFCs (Neo-Forward castes) in the IT business. Under the terms of the Business Reservation Act, their firms will now be taken over by the other castes. I hope they will be able to restore the Indian IT industry back to its former glory. For some unfathomable reason, it has gone down the drain after job reservations were implemented. I went for a movie featuring star actor Mungeri Ram. He may lack teeth, be four-feet-three and have hair growing out of his nose, but this year it’s the turn of the EBC-RYs (Extremely Backward Caste-Rural Yokels) to be stars and Mungeri Ram is the best of the lot. I wonder why foreign movies have become so popular.
4 May 2056: A truly great day. We now have an OFBMBC (Other Forward But Moderately Backward Caste) general as the Head of the Armed Forces. I hope he’ll be able to win back the territory we lost ever since reservations were implemented in the Army. Since then, the north has been taken by Pakistan, the North-east by China, the east by Bangladesh and the south by Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Only last winter, we lost the war against Bhutan and free India is now limited to the western coastal states. But I’m sure the OFBMBC general will turn the tide.
5 May 2056: My wife and I have been blessed with a bonny daughter. Since my wife’s an SBBNSBC (Slightly Backward But Not So Backward Caste), my daughter will be an MBFC-SBBNSBC. I must lobby for reservation for her caste. She’s the only member and I’m sure she has a great future.
From Business world magazine.
bala

Monday, April 10, 2006

Reservations and my Analysis.
One,

All of us who argue against reservation stating that quality of education will suffer is actually being a different kind of politician. The real reason why we feel agitated to see report is because according to us a less deserving candidate, according to our criteria i.e. marks, has gotten into a better college than we could manage. Isn’t this true?
We want, reservations not to continue, we use the proxy of quality of education. The politicians need vote, they use a proxy of society upliftment.

Two,

If we sincerely concerned about the common good of the country irrespective of personal scope for achievement (As Sale ability to MNCs- someone rightly said), Some kind of upliftment of the backward classes is necessary. I say upliftment of backward classes because they anyway are substantial in proportion of population and if India, the country, dreams to become an economic superpower, then of course the backward classes should be part of it.

Three,

Is reservation of any kind helping? The answer here is no. What it does is, it is relegating the backward classes to even more backward ness. I say this because, Suppose I am SC student, I know getting 200 /300 in PCM will secure a seat in somaiya, Why the hell will I have to work for 10 hours of a day to achieve it?
The people who enjoy the benefits of reservation are actually ones who "are" already uplifted. Reservation gives them a way to merely work less. Hence pushing them backward.

The people who actually need upliftment, may be, don’t even know about Somaiya.

Proposed solution,

Things like reservation makes us the well educated people loose our cool because it further reduces our scope of success and benefit the one who know well that they don’t have to work hard (At least as hard as us).

So, whatever solution is found to this problem should take care of these. One of which could be, the gov’t should bear the brunt of reservation by money and not by snatching general quota seats to refurbish reserved seats. I mean whenever a 50 percent reservation is proposed, the size of the institute should be doubled and the no. of general quota seats should be intact. As we also, who don’t have reservation, have a right to dream. Money and resolve could of course do it. A country of a billion could build more than just a few IITs and IIMs.

And Second measure, Which is more important, Should try to ensure that reservation does not reduce the amount of effort put by people to get into good colleges. People who are to be uplifted by reservation should be randomly chosen from a list of eligible needy (eligibility should only be clearance of the previous level), WHEN WE HAVE DECIDED THAT RESERVATION IS FOR SOCIETY UPLIFTMENT IN GENERAL AND NOT A FRUIT FOR MERIT AND HARDWORK, WHY DO WE NEED PROXY MERIT?

This second point will ensure that any Tom, Dick and Harry, who has from pre nursery studied with me, and has same ambitions like me, cannot feel that they will get into any institute because they have an added qualification of being from a backward caste.

Everyone seeking admission should be trying for merit seats alone, and the govt will uplift randomly chose, lucky people, who as a matter of fact, fall in the category who need upliftment.

If this happens, there wont be any grudge or disunion in the campuses also. The meritorious, the needy person, the faculty everyone will be sensitive to the needy person and help him.

Won’t a solution in these lines be better? I known nothing actually is going to happen, but its just sincere expression of my views

Friday, April 07, 2006

Mathematical/Empirical theory that disproves absence of God.

First let us think about law of probability.
Suppose a dice is rolled, is it really that the number of the face is absolutely Random?
The answer is no definitely not. It, the number on the face, depends on the velocity with which the dice is thrown, the vector position of the hand w.r.t ground, orientation vector of the dice w.r.t hand, friction of the surface, heat, wind levels and many other well known scientific entities. Mathematicians call it random because it is too complex to calculate and that these factors change rapidly.



The same logic applies to any other mathematical problem solved on the model of probability.

This fact is proven by computers. In computers, It is impossible to generate an absolutely random number. We could generate random number with some degree of randomness. At most, computers use some external factors and operate over it to provide a seemingly random number. But the fact is there is no algorithm to generate a random number. These computer generated random numbers are pseudo random numbers.

Some amount of pondering over this could easily convince us that nothing is fully Random. Nothing at all.


The non existense of randomness proves presence of god.

Lets ponder upon scientific models of genesis of the universe. It is widely accepted that big bang was how universe got created.
And it is also agreed in scientific community that, out of trillions of other possibilities, universe exists in the way it does today. That is, randomly things fell into place. 999 999 999 999 out of 1 000 000 000 000 times, if big bang re occurred, universe would be in a different way.

My argument is, when nothing is random, like the face of a rolling die decided by existing entities, how could what followed big bang be random?
I mean when big bang took place there was nothing, no universe, no space nothing. Full of nothingness. Nothing that happened at that point can be considered random.

The void created by absence of any quantity that science has yet defined, and the presence of some quantity that caused the universe to fan out the way it is today, proves the fallacy in scientific models that states existence of god is an impossibility.


If science proves, randomness indeed exists and events like face of a falling die is not controlled by known physical entities,We could assume that randomness is god. That randomness that selected 1 out of trillions of options to make universe the way it is today.

Any arguments?

Bala
Mathematical/Empirical theory that disproves absence of God.

First let us think about law of probability.
Suppose a dice is rolled, is it really that the number of the face is absolutely Random?
The answer is no definitely not. It, the number on the face, depends on the velocity with which the dice is thrown, the vector position of the hand w.r.t ground, orientation vector of the dice w.r.t hand, friction of the surface, heat, wind levels and many other well known scientific entities. Mathematicians call it random because it is too complex to calculate and that these factors change rapidly.



The same logic applies to any other mathematical problem solved on the model of probability.

This fact is proven by computers. In computers, It is impossible to generate an absolutely random number. We could generate random number with some degree of randomness. At most, computers use some external factors and operate over it to provide a seemingly random number. But the fact is there is no algorithm to generate a random number. These computer generated random numbers are pseudo random numbers.

Some amount of pondering over this could easily convince us that nothing is fully Random. Nothing at all.


The non existense of randomness proves presence of god.

Lets ponder upon scientific models of genesis of the universe. It is widely accepted that big bang was how universe got created.
And it is also agreed in scientific community that, out of trillions of other possibilities, universe exists in the way it does today. That is, randomly things fell into place. 999 999 999 999 out of 1 000 000 000 000 times, if big bang re occurred, universe would be in a different way.

My argument is, when nothing is random, like the face of a rolling die decided by existing entities, how could what followed big bang be random?
I mean when big bang took place there was nothing, no universe, no space nothing. Full of nothingness. Nothing that happened at that point can be considered random.

The void created by absence of any quantity that science has yet defined, and the presence of some quantity that caused the universe to fan out the way it is today, proves the fallacy in scientific models that states existence of god is an impossibility.


If science proves, randomness indeed exists and events like face of a falling die is not controlled by known physical entities,We could assume that randomness is god. That randomness that selected 1 out of trillions of options to make universe the way it is today.

Any arguments?

Bala