https://thewire.in/caste/upper-caste-merit-ews-quota
Do most not realise the injustice and tyranny hidden within the social structure which makes some the owners of merit by robbing others of their merit? Perhaps they know it well and want this situation to continue.
The implication of 10% reservation for ‘upper’ castes from economically weaker sections of society is that these seats are not available for all the ‘upper’ caste or ‘general’ candidates. But these seats have also become unavailable to those who are eligible to compete in the general category even when they belong to the so called reserved categories.
Is this the reason, that there is no noise about it? No lament about talented being ignored here. Why? Is it because it is assumed that even if candidates with lower marks enter these 10% reserved seats, they must be talented because they belong to the ‘upper’ castes? There, we don’t doubt the merit of those entering with below ‘normal’ marks. Is it because they are divinely ordained to be talented?
Talent gives birth to opportunities. This sentence is wrong.
Instead, it is more appropriate to say that talent emerges from opportunities. And talent is a quality developed not so much by the individual, but by social practice. For centuries, those who have reserved all the opportunities for themselves have started considering their talent as natural.
They do not realise the injustice and tyranny hidden within the social structure which makes them owners of merit by robbing others of their merit. Or perhaps they know it well and want this situation to continue.
by Apoorvanand
14/11/2022
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