I think, your response is quite uninformed because you have no idea what opression does to the mental state of a person. An opressed person looses all the confidence he has in his abilities. May be you should have born in a SC/ST/OBC family and seen the other side. I am sure you would have understood why a person with high GPA will still take reservation. I would like to ask you, what positive steps have you taken to make sure people who are down in the rut get the same kind of progressive enviornment that you may have got. I guess none... because your reactive views are quite visible from your message. So if you cant find a soln for a problem or even cant suggest one then let the people who are giving reservation as a solution handle it. If you think it is not right then stand up and suggest one soln instead of reacting the way you are doing.