aristotle the geek tells you the relationship between the market and the quota system:

There is only one moral stand that can be taken on any enforced reservation – against it. All those spineless people who go about saying we are not against reservations but… should consider what Ayn Rand had to say on this behavior – there are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Yes, I guess, the relationship between the market and the caste system doesn’t need to be checked.

Abhishek speaks for the ‘mainstream’ people:

In the garb of promotion of equality, the Government has chosen to promote “race equality”. Why should the successive generations suffer on account of perceived injustices to the present “class” of people? It only serves to hurt the “mainstream” people for something that they do not condone or support.

Rohit believes reservations must be fought in the streets of India:

It reaffirms what this blogger has argued before: The fight against reservations or a culture of entitlement (as Offstumped puts it) can only be a political battle. It must be fought in the streets of India with a very limited role for judicial challenges.

But the condition of Indian roads!

Amhsirakrian is sure her child will ask her- Ma, why aren’t you an OBC?

But I don’t get the need to make reservations such a huge part of the pie, where the general category students suffer for being the so called ‘privileged classes. In a nation obsessed with education and wealth, this ruling makes it harder for students like me who come into the middle class bracket! With the existing reservations for the SC/ST and adding today’s tally, the total reservations have now climbed to 49.6%! Almost 50% and that leave the majority of the population with just the other remaining seats. Does it make any sense within this frame work now? And then they wonder why brain drain exists!

Ankur Banerjee has reservations against reservations:

I am not a kid who wants to keep out ‘them folk from rural areas out of IITs’. I’m perfectly aware that in India, not everyone gets equal opportunities for education. So why disadvantage someone, just because of who their parents / ancestors are? I feel that by the very act of labelling some castes ‘backward’ or ’scheduled’, it makes that tag stick to them throughout their lives. Take USA for example. Although it’s a demonstrated statistic that African-Americans and Hispanics ON AN AVERAGE (mind these three words) score lower, yet, they don’t say “Let’s reserve 50% of the seats for these guys”. NO!

And finally, (on page 2 of 3 of the Google Blog Search results pages I’d talked about in my previous post) I find someone who doesn’t mind reservations. Daipayan Halder interviews Kancha Ilaiah:

Do you support reservations?

I do. The Constitution has already been amended for the purpose. The opposition to the decision only exposes the casteist and racist mindset of those who are opposing it. Today or tomorrow, the government had to introduce reservation because that is what the Constitution says.

The IITs and IIMs are successful brands and have gained international recognition. If Mandal replaces merit, wouldn’t their brand equity suffer?

We should close down the IITs and the IIMs as they pander to the upper-caste economy of the country….