Category: Reservations, Affirmative Action

On the mess that is RTE..

Almost five years back in 2009, India enacted a “landmark” bill and created a new “Right” – the “Right to Education”. Normally a new “right” ought to be celebrated. But as columnist Meeta Sengupta...

One day, we may need an “Indian” quota

Courtesy my friend RealityCheck (emphasis added); please try and ignore the absurdity of the headline in (as RealityCheck so memorably puts it) “a chest thumping secular country“. From 2 more minority lists put up, cut-offs...

Communal Reservations via the back door?

How many of you noticed this piece of “news” from about 2 months ago (emphasis added)? The Centre is proposing to introduce reservation for Muslims in educational institutions and employment on the lines of...

While you were worrying about Anna and Corruption..

…a brazen attempt was underway to further divide India – one bit at a time…Read about this and the “twilight zone where inclusive turns into exclusive“, courtesy, this post from RealityCheck’s blog that is...