The ground rule

Blogger Falstaff has certain objections. They give me an opportunity to reassert certain ground truths.
For instance, he says :'At any rate, the whole point is that the IIMs / IITs are the few institutes that have truly meritocratic admissions - to the best of my knowledge no one's ever argued for nepotism / favouritism in the selection of candidates.' Maybe. But crudely put , the government owns them. And they were started with the objective of providing quality education to the people of India. Certain sections of the people were not represented- so they're claiming their share now. Their share, please note. You can't dispute the merit of this claim.
"Why should we assume that those who benefit from quota admissions, say, will all automatically be poor students?"If that's not true they don't need reservations do they? You can't have it both ways - either they aren't good enough and need state assistance to get in - in which case you're destroying value - or they are good enough in which case there's no case for reservations at all. '
I think this point is irrelevant given the logic of the first point I made.