reservation 2 - My letter to Times of India

Dear Sir,

There is a very peculiar sentence in the article"Wrong route right direction" ,:"...upper caste Hindus... have cornered around twice as many jobs as their share in population might justify"

The word, "cornered" gives an impression that the jobs have been taken away by force or through some unfair means. Such unjust use of words result in creation of misunderstanding among people. It was a similar propaganda in Nazi Germany that led to the extermination of millions of Jews.

The authors have tried to relate education and caste. They have found gross inequalities and on the basis of which they have supported quotas. I request them to try the same exercise with respect to gender and education. They should find the results more heavily skewed. Maybe this points out to a requirement of quotas for women. Next they could co relate the state of residency to education. Maybe they could then justify quotas on the basis of states.

Being a teacher of statistics, I have seen enough attempts by people to abuse the data and use it to justify their own ends. I sincerely request the authors to do a little soul searching and think for the benefit of the nation as a whole.