Falling Over Backwards - By Arun Shourie
Sri Arun Shourie's recent book on the issue of reservations is undoubtedly an outstanding book of great national interest and current relevance. Since wide circulation of this scholarly book serves the anti-reservation cause, Youth for Equality, Hyderabad Chapter has ordered for a few copies of it.
The book is priced at Rs.495/-. We are taking it in bulk and are getting it at a price of Rs.350/- each.
In the interest of public education and public opinion building we are making it available at the same cost. We have absolutely no commercial interest whatsoever in circulating this book.
Anyone who would like to have this book may kindly get in touch with any of our following activists and collect the book(s).
This book is available with us at Rs.350/- each.
(That is at a discount of 29.29% on the list price of Rs.495/-)
Books can be obtained from:
Details of the book
Title: Falling Over Backwards: An Essay against Reservations and against Judicial Populism
Author: Arun Shourie
Pages: 378
Hard Back
Description:
How is it that what was explicitly forbidden by the constitution - classification based on caste - has become the rule? How is it that what were enabling provisions have become mandatory minima? Where does the figure 50 per cent come from? How is it that in practice it is exceeded blatantly? Are the benefits not being hogged by a few, the better-off among these castes? Has the "creamy layer" been actually hived off? How is it that what were begun as reservations at entry became reservations in promotions also? How did this become a right to accelerated promotions? How did that become a right "accelerated promotions with consequential seniority"? How did that become a right to have the prescribed standards diluted - to the point of being waived altogether? Even in educational institutions. Is this any way to become a "knowledge super-power"? As there has been no caste-wise enumeration and tabulation since the 1931 Census, where does this mythical figure - "OBC's are 52 per cent of the population" come from? And what did the 1931 Census itself say about its caste-wise figures? How have the Courts come to acquiesce in such wholesale perversion of the Constitution? Is their role to cheer such perversion on? Or is it to conserve, to protect the Constitution?
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The book is priced at Rs.495/-. We are taking it in bulk and are getting it at a price of Rs.350/- each.
In the interest of public education and public opinion building we are making it available at the same cost. We have absolutely no commercial interest whatsoever in circulating this book.
Anyone who would like to have this book may kindly get in touch with any of our following activists and collect the book(s).
This book is available with us at Rs.350/- each.
(That is at a discount of 29.29% on the list price of Rs.495/-)
Books can be obtained from:
Shreyas Desai
9394756563
shreyas.desai@gmail.com
Saurabh Bharadwaj
9346237105
saurabhbharadwaj@yahoo.co.in
V. Pradeep Kumar
9885252731
ranideep@gmail.com
Details of the book
Title: Falling Over Backwards: An Essay against Reservations and against Judicial Populism
Author: Arun Shourie
Pages: 378
Hard Back
Description:
How is it that what was explicitly forbidden by the constitution - classification based on caste - has become the rule? How is it that what were enabling provisions have become mandatory minima? Where does the figure 50 per cent come from? How is it that in practice it is exceeded blatantly? Are the benefits not being hogged by a few, the better-off among these castes? Has the "creamy layer" been actually hived off? How is it that what were begun as reservations at entry became reservations in promotions also? How did this become a right to accelerated promotions? How did that become a right "accelerated promotions with consequential seniority"? How did that become a right to have the prescribed standards diluted - to the point of being waived altogether? Even in educational institutions. Is this any way to become a "knowledge super-power"? As there has been no caste-wise enumeration and tabulation since the 1931 Census, where does this mythical figure - "OBC's are 52 per cent of the population" come from? And what did the 1931 Census itself say about its caste-wise figures? How have the Courts come to acquiesce in such wholesale perversion of the Constitution? Is their role to cheer such perversion on? Or is it to conserve, to protect the Constitution?
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posted by YFE Hyderabad at 9:42 AM
6 Comments:
Shourie hates reservations because he is an upper caste chauvinist and opposing reservations has earned him not only bread and butter but also fetched him a rajya sabha seat and cabinet berth in BJP government.
He has to repay his debt to his upper caste bretheren at BJP, Indian express and to his colleagues, all of whom are upper castes.
Shekhar Gupta is also following in his footsteps and wants a cabinet berth.
Well you sound like racist.
Guruji better create your own platform to voice your opinion.Just because YFE is modest enough to let people like you put your thoghts....dnt think we will continue providing u luxuries of writing ur biased opinion.
I request YFE not to be so modest.People like him can never rise even if reservations are given 100%.
Real GuruJi(Who is paying the cost of being Guruji for centuries.)
hey anonymous
u hate me man. lol
i hate to say this,and i ask forgivence in advance...the problem with yfe is that it consists of intellectuals and bookworms..u guys just love figures ,research work,long essays dont u? do u realise who your target audience is, the middle class guy you expect to support you does not read fat books and his head swims when u rant off figures. the problem with this generation is that it expects to win a war just signig online petitions and giving good statistics against quota...speak to ur target audience in a language it understands....they want to watch phir hera pheri please dont show them art films
I think we should just look at the issues shourie has raised, instead of abusing him or questioning his motives. That would be the real way of answering him. Can anyone who supports reservation in the current form come out with a similar book, answering the issues raised by him, please?
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