More thoughts

No doubt, no one can possibly contest the contention that the young students belonging to the upper castes invariably fare better in an IIT or an IIM. It is not really very surprising in fact, given the fact that the families of these students are economically much better (that's why they can spend a good fortune to tutor such students for the admission tests) also these students are more likely to have been exposed to an intellectually stimulating atmosphere at home (their parents or siblings would have had exposure to quality higher education). Considering these students to be at par, with students who do not have had such exposure is rather unfair. Imagine, what would Bollywood be like if only those belonging to affluent families like Kapoors, Bachchans, Deols could make an entry.

In fact, in the modern times many other vocations have become family dependent. If your parents have an established prractice in medicine, you are more likely to become a doctor, same is the case with lawyers. But, nobody will protest as vehemently if some reservations were introduced in the admission to the LLB course.
The ferocity of the present protests has its base in the fact that graduates of IITs and IIM's are much sought after, one is vertually sure of a plump job after graduation from these institutions.

That leads to the question of quality. Will the quality of enginners graduating from these premium institution detoriate because of these reservations. I do have some thoughts on this issue! But, let that be reserved for the next post.