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by thewhitetulip 3046 days ago
Do you really think that the reservations based on caste i.e. SC/ST not having a creamy layer is balancing the act?

I had got 150 in IIT JEE, a friend had got 70. I missed the cut off by 30marks, I am from 'open' and he was from SC, he wore woodlands shoes, Rayban glasses and he missed IITB admissions by 5 marks. Can you imagine? We were in the same school etc

Reservations system has run amok, incidentally, even Dr. Ambedkar had said that reservations need to be there only for the first 10yrs otherwise it'd have drastic effects and they are.

I am reading India after Gandhi and I appreciate all that was done by our founding fathers and mothers, I appreciate the fact of reservations, but the madness has to stop.

People ahve started to treat reservation as their 'birthright'