[This blog avoids the fact that Malayali nurses are decent enough to learn Kannada in our hospitals. That's good, but that's not good enough.]
Ever been to a hospital in Karnataka and consciously counted the ratio of Malayali nurses to Kannadiga nurses? I believe the ratio is atleast 20:1. If you don't think this is disastrous news, there's something wrong with you!
Karnataka seems to have taken it for granted that the Nursing profession is made for Malayali women. What a suicidal thought this is! Of all the questions that arise in this regard, the most important ones are:
We have to stop this decay. We need to encourage our women -- most of who are jobless, hopless, destitute, penniless, illiterate -- to take to Nursing as a serious profession. We have to educate the people to come out of the illusion that women should not work. We have to educate our women well so that they can start playing a greater role in the society -- a role greater than that of a baby-machine plus cook.
I leave you with two important questions:
If your answer to the second question is "converting our Nursing schools to Kannada medium", you are a serious thinker of Karnataka's good. Your long-sightedness gives you the faculty of telling right from wrong. You tend to cheerfully suffer in the short-run, but will have the last laugh when the fools have long started reaping the bitter reward of short-sightedness.
Ever been to a hospital in Karnataka and consciously counted the ratio of Malayali nurses to Kannadiga nurses? I believe the ratio is atleast 20:1. If you don't think this is disastrous news, there's something wrong with you!
Karnataka seems to have taken it for granted that the Nursing profession is made for Malayali women. What a suicidal thought this is! Of all the questions that arise in this regard, the most important ones are:
- What are the kannaDiga women doing? Why are they not getting into Nursing Schools and becoming nurses?
- Are kannaDiga women finding other jobs because of some sort of widespread dislike for Nursing?
- Are nursing schools partial to Malayali women in some way?
- Are kannaDiga women discouraged from working at all?
We have to stop this decay. We need to encourage our women -- most of who are jobless, hopless, destitute, penniless, illiterate -- to take to Nursing as a serious profession. We have to educate the people to come out of the illusion that women should not work. We have to educate our women well so that they can start playing a greater role in the society -- a role greater than that of a baby-machine plus cook.
I leave you with two important questions:
- Is the strong influence of Christianity in Kerala -- of which the most important thing here is the English language -- giving Malayali women an edge over Kannadiga women? Are they winning the ratrace to Nursing schools simply because the schools teach in English and our women are further removed from English than Malayali women (who come from a state with a strong Christian/English influence)?
- If the answer to the above question is "Yes", do you advocate for converting our Nursing schools to Kannada medium or do you advocate for making our women learn English or converting them to Christianity?
If your answer to the second question is "converting our Nursing schools to Kannada medium", you are a serious thinker of Karnataka's good. Your long-sightedness gives you the faculty of telling right from wrong. You tend to cheerfully suffer in the short-run, but will have the last laugh when the fools have long started reaping the bitter reward of short-sightedness.
2 comments:
You arrogant male chauvinistic pig for having the audacity to think that nursing is a field restricted to women alone. Why the tirade on women for not entering the nursing service. Are you some kind of a Neanderthal whose petty little brain has huge issues gasping intricacies such as equality and dignity of labor? Nursing further is a service which needs dedication, commitment and a spirit to serve it is not as you seem to put it a money spinning venture.
the "malayala manorama" says itself as largest circulated GK book. In the issues before year 2000, of this yearly, the population of kannadigas is shown as 45 million as compared to 50 million population of karnataka, while in the issues after 2000, the kannadiga population is being shown as 35 million and karnataka population as 55 million, i wondered how come kannadiga population decreased when world and indian population is continuously incresing, this shows how wrong information these are giving to the world for their personal interests, Oh 5 million kannadigas, wake up.
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