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 dip further by Bhavya Dore, Hindustan Times, Mumbai, June 22, 2012, this brief excerpt:
At NM College in Vile Parle, the commerce cut-off for Gujarati minority students fell from 90.91% last year to 89.64% this year.
..At Hinduja College, students who fall in the Sindhi quota will be given walk-in admissions until Friday morning.  Earlier this week, cut-offs at Sathaye College in Vile Parle for the in-house quota, St Andrew’s College in Bandra for the Christian minority quota and SIES College in Sion for the South Indian minority quota registered a fall.
Previously, the Sindhi quota cut-off at Jai Hind College and the Christian quota cut-off at St Xavier’s College had also fallen.
I really don’t know whether to laugh or cry..Beyond farcical, isn’t it? I am reminded of Dividing India: one bit at a time
Somewhat related: Communal Reservations via the back door?
Everyone is a minority in one way or the other. The scheduled tribe and scheduled caste quotas were already there with numerous special facilities for them. And now the trend of minorities! I myself fall under religious minority (Christian)but i dont like the whole thing!
me too took minority admission as catholic and i am atheist had to give in to parents as its their damn money.
PS: From “dividing india†i’m reminded of one argument that india should never have been one and all states should have been separate countries like small ones there in europe – norway, sweden etc.
Any comments on this?
if at all quotas are to be given, they are to be given for the poor people of this country. Then everyone who is poor (muslim/christian/SC/ST/Sikh/Brahmin) will get benefited.
Whereas now, a person gets preference just because he/she belongs to a specific religion/cast; and we proudly call ourselves secular. Hope this discrimination comes to end sooner than later.
Adding this here for the record: Constitutional Minorityism: India as A Religious Apartheid State by Sankrant Sanu, Dec 1, 2017. It is worth a close read