No other way, guys. The educated, modern minded, urban people have to relinquish all benevolent thoughts which they had for people belonging to the socially oppressed strata. Your generousity has been taken as your weakness, and today ground under your own feet is giving way.
Screaming what is good and what is bad, what is immoral and what is moral will not help. Those days are over. Now is the time to reflect your anger in ballot boxes, because only that is capable of unnerving the political scoundrels.
Need to vote for parties that provides sops to forward castes, does not matter which party it is, be it BJP, Congress, BSP, SP. Start this practice, start it now, and let it be become a trend. Arjun Singh and his cohorts will fall in line automatically.
If intellectuals cries foul, let them bark; arm-chair experts are as inert as rocks, anyway.