Leap Backward

Saw this in the India Today

Introducing quotas in higher education without adequate and compulsory primary education will only lower the standards of higher education

Simple logic ain't it? This statement aptly captures the reservation related uproar happening in the country these days.

I am here on the IIT Bombay campus and the students here are on a indefinite chain hunger strike. A group fasts for 24 hours and then they are replaced by another group who fasts for another 24 hours and so on. Innovative ;-)

Saw a survey on NDTV which showed that a large majority of the country is pro reservations. No surprise since this survey included the whole of India urban and rural. But does that mean reservation is right? No it isn't. If the current reservation in about 55 years has not managed to uplift the backward people then that doesn't mean you automatically increase the reservation perentages all across the board and then introduce it in higher/professional education. You go back and fix why it is not working in the primary education area first.

We know all these things...
...who are we kidding, this is just a #@$%ing political gimick...