8 Random facts...

I was tagged by Amit for this ... nice to know random facts about people but to write your own is not that much fun!! Well here are the rules of the game ...

1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
4. If you fail to do this within eight hours, you will not reach Third Series or
attain your most precious goals for at least two more lifetimes.

So here are mine...

1. I love to travel and meet new people..and im not that bad a conversationalist

2. I want to be in the middle of the ocean and see in all directions...what it feels like to be in the middle of nowhere (unless a whale attacks!!)

3. I am trying to learn many new pastimes and still a lot is left...guittaring is one of them.

4. I love and can sit for hours in vicinity all kinds of water bodies...and just want to be near a lake, river or a sea, and im learning swimming so that i dont get drowned!!

5. I keep fiddling with my writing abilities and sometimes i do scribble something that can make sense!

6. I wish I get time to dance and learn as much as i can..thats one of my stress busters.

7. I m inclined towards adventuresome sports and things like that...

8. I just took a little long to complete 8 random facts about myself...because i had to choose from plenty others!!

Whats wrong????

"India is perhaps the only nation where the race is for being backwards" -That was RK Narayanan' comment after the Gujjar's showdown for NOT casting them as a backward class. This is ceratinly someting going very wrong and I think the roots lie in the cast system. Why not the Govt declare either everyone as backward class, if it makes people happy....or make everyone no-class! Can there be a ground of discretion that follows the income level or somse kind of advantage to poor people so that those who really deserve can get soem help. In thi particular case of the Gujjar's protest, I donot blame the people, infact its teh mestake of the political parties involved or rather its the policies of our law makers that can be blamed. Giving, and even advocating special resravtions for these backlward class, without assuring them proper (or equal ground) essential education is not going to lead us towards any progress. I still remember the strong resentment from the students who were not clasified as a special cast against the decision to increase the reservation quota in graduation studies for the so called unprivelleged- the unprivelleged who have a quota in almost everything including jobs! If our very own leaders who are so concerned for these backward classes cannot provide these people with basic facilities so that they can atleast think for their good, what is a graduate studies going to help them? Many of these classified people are unable to cope up with the level of difficulty at that time and they get frustrated, or they get so used to these reservations that they donot even attempt to come out of this shadow of the class that is letting them have an upper hand above everything.
Iam not against the development of these people and I do understand that these privlages are meant to take them out of that backwardness. But what Iam against is that in the process they forget about the no-class people who are not given any special rights, and who form most of the Indian population.
Once, being called of a backward class was supposed to be a social stigma, but I dont think its the same case now..rather people can proudely go on roads if they are not considered as backward! Guess something is seriously wrong with my country...