This is something I wrote to
this story.What I find sad is that while there are only some 2500 students who will ever go to IIT every year (of which perhaps 1250 will now be SC/ST/OBC, there are millions of SC/ST/OBC who will never see the end of class 12. They remain oppressed, uncared, and poor. Their children cannot dream of going to a vocational training college let alone IIT because they never got any education.
Racism is inherent in human nature, and I do not deny it. To uplift the lot of a section of society we need to improve the lowest strata of that community, not give privileges to the already privileged.
I do not understand the voter who says "now my son/daughter who cannot go to school now will one day go to IIT - let me vote for congress/whichever party". If he is that dumb, perhaps he deserves what the government is giving him. If the intelligentsia of my county think that the solution to the betterment of our nation lies in how many graduates our IITs produce and not on how many people can read and write, then perhaps they deserve what the government gives them. After all, like they said in some hindi movie about the corrupt police officer and I am translating "The man inside the uniform is from among us".
If the politicians of our country think that this move will earn them votes, and it does, then its a failure of our people, not of them. Bush went to Iraq because the American people wanted him to do that at that time. The Iraq debacle is not the fault of Bush, its a failure of all the people who voted for going to Iraq at that time.
