That was a great column!I'm happy to read such views from someone who belongs to that caste.Its true that the forwards ill-treated the backwards in the yesteryears, but doing the same thing is not going to change what happened.Its like the mother-in-law to daughter-in-law treatment.We've come a long way & most of the places whether job/education,backward caste people don't get shooed away.In fact they enjoy being called backwards because its finacially profitable. Even a handicapped person likes to be treated like a regular person & does n't want any special concession. There should be no reservation at all.But we should demand financial concessions for the economically backward or like in foreign universities, get teaching positions for students pursuing higher education to pay off some part of the loan.Else, as you said a college for just the backwards with teachers who are backwards. Why don't the politicians treat themselves in a hospital with doctors who graduated based on the reserved quota or have a pilot who passed due to the quota ? The reserved class must think of these points, its the congress governments age-old technique of divide & rule. They don't care for anyone.
