Its not time yet to yank reservation out of India. Thousands of years of oppression doesn't get mended with a paltry 60 year period of affirmative action. I belong to the so called forward castes in India and I feel that reservation still holds water in India.
Keep it going but control the abuse of the policies. We still owe it to a large segment of the Indian populace. Their upliftment using these quotas will only benefit the future generations. I do agree that there has to be less of a casteist approach and more of an economic approach, but eliminating the casteist approach in entirety will be wrong since the fact is that the majority of the downtrodden do belong to the classified backward castes.
I hope for a day when the casteism divide is eliminated in the Indian society, probably an idealistic wish, but could happen.
