Reservations- An Ignominy, A Grave Injustice
Reservations- An Ignominy, A Grave Injustice! Repercussions of a Faulted System and Alternate Solutions W e Indians have, of late, started competing with each other in proving who’s more backward than the other and in this regard we seem to stand out from the rest of the world’s population, who, in sharp contrast, compete to prove how developed they are as compared to other competitors! This has led to shameless (and at times violent) protests demanding reservations in education and jobs by almost every Indian community. Obtaining fake caste certificates in the urge to prove themselves backward is also not unheard of. With every community craving to get its share from the reservation pie, this disturbing trend speaks volumes of our low self-esteem and blatant disregard for justice as Indians in general and Muslims in particular. Allow me to explain how…. What started as a 20% reservation for Scheduled Caste and 2% for Scheduled Tribe has eventually snowballed into a ma