I dont agree with the author. He says that brahmins and upper caste people have to go else where to succeed. But in making that he is accepting that these forward caste communties have the resourses and the ability to go abroad and make a living. But the SC/ST candidates have no such opportunity or ability to prosper and that is why we need to lift them up with reservations. He also talks about how brahmins are coolies and rickshaw pullers, but he fails to mention what percentage of the uppercaste are doing these menial work. Exceptions cannot be examples.
The author must come out of his prejudice towards the brahmin community and see both sides of the issue. There is also the problem of corruption and prejudice in higher education institutes which are ruled by brahmins (IISC, BARC etc). There, non brahmins dont get the recognition, i have several friends who worked in BARC and who went to the US bcos only a brahmin could get through to higher posts in the upper caste dominated institutions. How about this brain drain.
Franscois has been an advent advocator of brahmins and their rights but to prejudice the argument from the brahmin point of view is not statesman like.
