#reservation

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

like do you really think by removing reservation, there would still be enough seats in institutions for lakhs of students?

the entire entrance system is a symptom of govt incapability to provide basic higher education and jobs and trap the youth into giving exams and blame their failure on students/candidates/people for not cracking them.

I've shot birds and trapped rabbits, I go moose hunting yearly with my family on our traditional hunting grounds. I fish there in the summer. This summer, I'll be taking my partner there for the first time.

I look forward to bringing any hypothetical kids there some day, for them to scramble over and scrape their knees on the same rocky islands I did. Too often, I take for granted the beauty of my home. Others tend to overlook it, too.

A nondescript road off the highway to a reservation with just over 500 people, a gas station, and a corner store. You have to drive a half hour up the highway to the nearest town if you want groceries.

And yet, its beauty cannot be matched, past the rez down a dirt road you'll see the powwow grounds and the mouth of the river where it turns into lake superior. Further down still, and you'll see the dunes and the beach that seem to go on forever when you're a kid.

Driftwood lines the shore bleached white by the sun, black coals in places where the fishermen got cold, or some kids got bored. Paw prints from dogs and seagull prints mark the wet sand, and if you catch the sky on the right day, you can't tell where the water ends and the sky begins.