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Affirmative actions and quotas

Creamy layer politics :P Radhakrishnan - 03/11/2008

Quota Politics - 24/10/2008

A quota of change: Madhav Khosla - 22/10/2008
Call of Mayawati for upper caste reservations will need some canny legal engineering.Reservations under articles 15 and 16 require social discrimination, not just economic backwardness. Poor upper castes dont fit that bill.

Skimming the cream : Editorial, Business Standard - 10/10/2008
The government’s real intention is to dilute the Court’s decision and narrow the definition of the creamy layer, so that more people become eligible for reservations .............

The dubiousand illogical demand for caste-based census : Mahesh Chanrasekaran - 08/09/2008

If we want world-class institutions, we can not have reservations for faculty:Montek Singh Ahluwalia - 01/09/2008
If the country has to have world-class institutions, Ahluwalia feels, reservation for faculty is not a defensible idea

Caste card : JAGDEEP S. CHHOKAR - 10/08/2008
Caste-based reservation is here to stay thanks to opportunistic politics.

The Parallel between anti-Brahminism and anti-Semitism : Jakob De Roover - 10/08/2008
To be against "Brahminism" is part and parcel of the political correctness of progressive scholars in twenty-first-century India

Analysis of Mandal's letter to the President : Mahesh Chandrasekaran - 05/08/2008
This is an analysis of the contents of the letter written by the great BP Mandal while submitting his masterly thesis called Mandal Commission Report to the then President of India Shri Zail Singh

The basic difference between 68% of Rajasthan and 69% of Tamil Nadu : Mahesh Chandrashekaran - 19/07/2008

A study of Educational criteria of the NCBC : Mahesh Chandrashekaran - 17/07/2008
Only NCBC can do this magic. Even if the literacy rate is above the State average, the castes are declared backward.

Three fatal flaws in the Rajasthan compromise :Tarunabh Khaitan and V. Venkatesan - 08/07/2008
The respite earned from the opportunistic compromise is likely to be temporary.

Why only caste-quotas are opposed? Why the other types of quotas are not opposed? : Mahesh Chandrashekaran - 05/07/2008
One of the contributors in the “Comments/Post Your Own Article “ has raised this question as to why the SC/ST Quotas are opposed and why other types of quotas (i.e Management/Defence/NRI) are not opposed?

All Tamil Nadu politicians are Brahmins! : Mahesh Chandrashekhar - 05/07/2008
Considering the fact that all Tamil Nadu leaders are essentially Telugu-speaking, (including Periasamy Naicker), it must be concluded that all Tamil Nadu politicians are infact Brahmins !

Swiss Knife Politics :Pratap Bhanu Mehta - 30/06/2008
That is reservations. Add bad education, and you have a social time bomb.

The Paradox Of Democracy - 27/06/2008
Middle class has given a new lease of life to caste politics

Communists and Creamy Layer - The Known Nexus : Youth For Equality, JNU - 25/06/2008
When India is facing the stark reality of unequal wealth and power distribution, one thing is proven beyond doubt that the COMMUNISTS ARE THE AGENTS OF CREAMY LAYER, the powerful section of the society.

Possibilities of equality:Tarunabh Khaitan - 20/06/2008
Reservations are not the only vehicle for social justice. Two committees set up to explore the obligations of the private sector must show the way to a more flexible model

Buying its way out of trouble : The Hindu Editorial - 20/06/2008
As Abraham Lincoln noted a long time ago, you can please some of the people all the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all the time.

The answer is thirty : Abhay Anand - 19/06/2008
How did all 30 students of Super 30, the institute that coaches underprivileged students in Bihar for IIT, clear the exam this year?

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