Hey, you say "THink TN is the only state where people dont use their caste name as your surname". Please tell me what do names with surnames like Goundar, Chettiar, Mudaliar, Nadar, Pillai, Iyengar, Iyer etc. convey other than castes? So, TN has not got rid of the caste system by all the reservations that people boast of. The reservations have in no way helped the poorest of the poor amongst the sc/ st communities. Only, the now-called OBCs, who practice casteism with more openly and with more cruelty than Brahmins (they are afraid of the government's action if they do)will become stronger and more dominant in TN. Most of the ministers in all the states of India belong to these category of people and they do not need the 27% reservation that the governemt is proposing. So, the only sensible way is to strengthen the education at the primary and secondary levels for the lower classes of people, subsidize education heavily for them upto graduation level and then allow them to compete for higher studies / jobs.Reservation on caste basis should be practiced for the next 5-10 years at the most and then reservation should be purely on economic basis. Punish the politicians who don't do it
