Rashmi's article is symptomatic of what ails our higher education system. About 80% of her essay is a cut and paste from one single source to drive home her view, rather weakly at that, about the Indian education system. We can have a thousand institutions of higher learning but till the day we encourage original research and ideas we will keep producing these cut and paste coder coolies or excel sheet coolies.
While the elites in India abhor the reservation system,the idea of reservation is not a bad one-it is the implementation. Reservation should "assist" the lesser privileged student in achieving his or her goal and not "reward" them with it.
