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Karan Thapar: Do you personally also, as Minister of Human Resource Development, believe that a reservation is the right and proper way to help the OBCs?
Arjun Singh: Certainly, that is one of the most important ways to do it.
Karan Thapar: The right way?
Arjun Singh: Also the right way.
Karan [...]

UNITED PROGRESSIVE Alliance’s (UPA’s) one minister has gone into my head and this ’great’ personality is Arjun Singh. This social engineer wants to become a hero of the so called ’backward classes’, and in the process, he is neglecting the highest education institutes of the country. If All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) became [...]

THE RECENT Supreme Court verdict on Other Backward Class (OBC) quota in central educational institutes was a fine balancing act despite the enormous amount of pressure being exerted on the judiciary by the government in an attempt to curb the so-called judicial activism without realising that it has a become a necessity, due to complete [...]

Well well. Arjun Singh’s reservation row is now almost two long years old now & the Supreme Court judgement has given the government a green signal to implement the reservations, sans the creamy layer.
So the government shall now work towards implementation, right?
But, do we have any clues about the status of the implementations that were [...]

A report of what happened when students gathered at the SC lawns to appeal against the way 27% reservation for OBCs is being implemented.
Wondering why the youth brigade didn’t come up with strong reactions immediately after the Supreme Court ruling that gave way to 27 per cent reservation to the OBCs? Well, this could be [...]

The Supreme Court has given its verdict on the 27 per cent reservations and the government is all geared up to implement it from this session only. The much-debated other backward classes (OBC) quota will be implemented at prestigious educational institutions like IITs and IIMs nationwide. Why the reservation card was played by Arjun Singh [...]

Eighteen years can be an eternity in politics: on September, 6, 1990, a stirring speech was made in parliament criticising the Mandal commission report.
“If you believe in a casteless society, every major step you take must be such that you move towards a casteless society. And you must avoid taking any steps which takes you [...]

This is the post that appeared in Indian Express today. It is written by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.
It’s a landmark
Landmark judgments can have one of two features. They can strike an uneasy balance between competing considerations, in a sort of compromise that keeps the peace. Or they can mark out a radically new course of action. [...]

THE QUOTA row might hit the country again following the judgement given by the honourable Supreme Court today. With this verdict the court’s interim order of March 29, 2007, staying the implementation of the quota has now been lifted. The highlights of the verdict are:
* Supreme Court upholds 27 per cent Other Backward Caste (OBC) [...]

The Maharashtra government is planning reservations for the economically backward class in education and government jobs. This quota will be in addition to the already existing reservations made on the basis of caste. While the former is a welcome move, the latter causes more harm than good.
Most visionaries are of the view that reservations, if [...]