Originally Posted by dsarosh

I think the quotas will be a good thing simply because they will give some people the "opportunity" to have a better future for themselves, their families, and their children and grandchildren.

The sections from the high caste speak a lot about "merit", I too am from what you call the "high caste" or "upper caste" of India, so dont take this as critizism....

But I can give you very real examples of scores and scores and high class students who just take admission in colleges to pass time. They come to college on bikes or cars, they talk about with girls, skip all their lectures, and go back after having a fun day of learning nothing.
It is really much better that some poor child who studies under the street lights gets admission instead of someone from the "high class" for whom college is just fun.