Reservation: Support, Opposition and Our Position

This essay brings in light the fooling mechanism inherent in the idea of reservation, of course fooling both “supporters” and “opponents.” When the ruling class hurls the bait of reservation in employment or higher education, the students and unemployed youth belonging to middle class and upper castes, who are already dependent on jobs for their livelihood think that the “dalits” and backward castes are now even robbing them off their remaining opportunities of employment with the aid of the crutches of reservation. On the other hand, youth belonging to “dalit” and backward castes fail to realize that if the percentage…