Prof Gopinathan very well said..!! but i think your words "you will be a miserable misfit in the intellectually and socially elite IIT atmosphere" may not hold true because if the proposed reservations are started, they will continue for ages and this intellectually and socially elite IIT atmosphere will no more remain so. instead, it will also change to mediocre levels when the students are chosen on the basis of their caste in place of intellectual capabilities.