Very well written Siddhartha. Excellent, you seem to me a very sensible person and I fully agree with you. First of all I think all this quota issue is more beneficial to our politicians rather than to our OBC or SC/ST brothers/sisters. Secondly, I have seen a lot of people in India who belong to upper castes such as Brahamins are living in worse conditions than SC/STs. If Government follows your suggestion it is not going to be beneficial only to SC/ST, obcs but also to upper caste people who living much below the poverty line. I am not against the reservation but I think now after 50 years of independence time has arrived when we should be looking for giving opportunity to people belonging to all communities who are living below the poverty line. Jai Hind