A step on the road towards equality, merit and a quest for excellence
Excerpts from Mukul Asher’s DNA op-ed piece on the Supreme Court verdict on OBC reservations*:
The society’s need for competence and employable graduates has been balanced with provision of educational access to the OBCs.
The judgement of the Supreme Court (should) be respected in [...]
Five year reviews and creamy layer exclusions
Lex blogger Ninad Laud was at the Supreme Court when it gave its verdict on the reservations for OBCs in higher education. Head over to his blog for the details.
The implications of the verdict, he says, are:
Caste based reservations are to stay in educational institutions but minus the [...]
No Pratibha
Pratibha Patil appears to have forgotten that she is the head of state of the Indian republic, not the Saudi kingdom. For what else could she mean by calling for a girls only IIT to be set up in her former Lok Sabha constituency? Forget being apolitical, Mrs Patil is demonstrating both narrow-mindedness and [...]
The Andhra Pradesh government plans to subsidise trips to the Biblical holy lands
For Christ’s sake!
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