Amusing the Muse

So after…hmm, let’s see now – November, December, January, February, March, April, May – seven whole months!!! I don’t believe it! Time simply flies! Well, anyway, so after seven long months, the Muse is back, ready to take up where we left off last.

And among the first things in the To Do list is to acknowledge all who had, during the Muse’s long absence, visited this blog and clamoured – yes actually clamoured – for more!

Truly, I am flattered! Thank you!

Of course, I am not going to go about giving any elaborate and long-winded but patently false excuse for my extended silence. It would not be fair to anyone, least of all to myself.

So, what shall we blog about today?

A serious issue that seems to be gripping the Indian blogosphere these days is the reservation question. The GoI seems all set to table the bill that reserves 49.5 percent of seats in educational institutions to the so-called “lower-caste” candidates. A whopping 49.5 %, stopping just short of the magic number 50%, no doubt based on recommendations of several psycho-statistical analyses.

And since the brain cells are yet to get into the blog mode, I shall pass off a forward doing its rounds in the email today. It is funny, really! Here’s what the author has to say.

I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the reservation with our cricket team. We should have 9.5% reservation for Muslims, 40% percent for OBC, and SC/ST, totaling of course to 49.5%.

Cricket rules should be modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a six hit by an OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC century is 60 runs.

We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers can be allowed a maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour when playing against an OBC player. Any delivery above this speed should be made illegal.