Reservations the death-knell of India

It seems that all is set for the next big thing in India.
When everyting is going on pretty smothely, India Rising, finally coming true, Sensex booming with the future prospects of the Indian Economy, if something can spoil the party, it has to be the Indian politicians. Not even the US slowdown can have as negative an effect as this new 27% increase for the OBC's.

Can somebody tell me, how many castes are backward in India? Our's is the only country where people vouch to be backward!!! People shout in parliament at the top of their voice that my community is backward, and what government should do for it, give reservations, as if giving reservations would suddenly turn a kid living in shanty in the dirtiest part of town to a millionaire. How insane! Everybody knows that reservations are taken up only by the select few who have the 'virtue' of being born backward and the luck of being in educated family.

As far as I have seen in my enginnering and MBA college not even a single reserved candidate deserved the reservation. Everybody was from a well to do family, who knew exactly how difficult it is to get into the college and who at the same time knew that there is this weapon of reservation, the ultimate trump card which will take them notches up the rest in the competition. All this because our forefathers have treated them in grossly inhuman ways...who knows, we all might have been Dalits in the purva janma and theses people enjoying benefits now might have been the aggresors.