I'm in favor of the judgment. Basically there are two arguments in this case: A) Are reservations needed? B) Who should get the reservations if they are needed?
For the first argument, I think India needs reservations. This is a country where rich gets richer and poor gets poorer and we need a balanced society and reservations brings that balancing act and helps the disadvantaged to be part of the future success story.
I think the second argument is critical since we want to get over the cast system and yet we want to base our reservation on cast system. But the point to remember is the cast system is prevalent even though we want to get over it. For the time being forget about the politics and vote bank arguments and take your own random sample and see who is advantaged and who is not. BTW, the definition of advantage is the one with enough wealth, job, education, better life and better life expectancy. Also make sure than the sample has 70% BC/SC/ST representation as that's the national/statewide representation. You will not be surprised by the result. The disadvantaged are the BC, SC and ST and we as a nation owe them.
