Everytime i hear the word "merit" these days i feel like puking! In all the arguements people seem to be making while opposing reservations one tacit agreement seems to be that "merit" will somewhat get compromised. Pray! What is merit? Ans- It is something that uppercste Hindus have that helps them to get into IITs and IIMs and then leave India for greener and hopefully colder pastures like the American West coast or the American mid-east.
Apparently ensuring adequate representation to the various caste groups in india will compromise on "merit". Apparently apart from the Brahmins and a few other uppercastes in India no else has any merit. It's time this arguement is exposed for the racist cant that it is. The opposition to reservation has nothing to do with merit. There are 14 crore dalits in india, 8 crore tribals and more than a third of a billion OBCs. If our public school system is so bad that it cannot find a few thousand students with "merit" from half a billion population under the reserved category then the whole system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from scratch. But that can only happen when we have our priorities right.
