Atrocities against dalits are rampant until this day and it is evident from the annual reports of National Commission for SC/ST. Fools do assume and propagate that dalits are free from discrimination based on caste. Assuming that a child from a forward class family and that of an oppressed class family had the same intelligence at the time of their birth, its obvious that owing to vast differences in social, educational, economical and other factors, the former will beat the latter in any competitive field, even if the oppressed class child’s intelligence quotient was much higher than the child of forward class, if the selection is made on the basis of ‘merit’. Meritrocracy is meaningless without equality. First all people must be brought to the same level, whether it elevates a section or delevels another, regardless of merit. Only after that merit becomes meaningful. Privileged people have never known to go backward due to reservations. Reservations have only slowed down the process of the 'forward' becoming richer and backward becoming poorer. Dalits are more than a quarter in Indian population but they are entitled to a mere 22%. Dalits are not devoring your share but dalits are protected by the way of reservation from you devoring theirs. Hence you need not whine. Every other non-dalit shld be at least for a day subjected to untouchability and made to clean n carry human excreta in order to make dem undestand what its to be
