On Reservations!!!

Whenever there arises a conflict between masses and law, it the law which always has to make way.

When there are reservations in other academic institutions, why not in IIMs and IITs? It was a foregone conclussion that someday the mass demand for such a reservation had to be heard.

Why should there not be reservation for the people who are socially backward? There is always an argument that the higher caste poor should not be differentiated from the socially backward. But, arent the higher caste poor better off than there lower caste bretherens?

For example, a bramhin from a poor section of society is sure to have some or other relative who is educated. Somebody who can give proper advice, who can sponsor the studies, somebody to look at as an ideal. How many OBCs will have the luxury of an educated relative? How many of the OBCs know the value of education? How many can get a good advice on career decissions? (I know somebody who chose mechanical over computer science just because he was adviced to. Will this ever happen to a Bramhin for example?).

After thousands of years of deprivation, this is the minimum we can make.

Another argument is why reservation is higher education when the basic schooling is not proper. If the government is not ready for a straight forward development, then let the upside down happen. Something is better than nothing.