Religion, Caste And Tribe Based Reservation - 3

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Mudy

I found the foll things very interesting in this statement.

1. There is an implicit agreement within babudom that the best way out for 'forward' castes is to migrate somewhere else.
2. There is an implicit understanding within GoI circles that its only good that the 'forward' castes are going away - IOW if you can do it good, if you cant too bad. (Similar to that brahmin-hater Pathma's logic) This really rubbishes the argument of GoI funded IIT/IIM students migrating abroad as a bad thing (brain drain, cost to exchequer etc).
3. In a way the current proposals to increase the reservation quota is strengthening the above viewpoints in one sense and also restricting the 'forward' castes from moving abroad.
4. "Managing rising expectations" is being reconised as a big threat. As a corollary, "rising expectations" is being recognised as an opportunity by anti-national forces like AS/MMS/SG.

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Its been a while since I readup on gametheory but this one is a difficult one to address. The situation where new identities are being made each day and where everybody is being made to feel that one is not getting enough as one should. I think Ram had a thread on persecution complex or something that addressed this.

More later.