On a serious note, this reservation ruckus is threatening to wreak havoc on the social fabric of this country. The present urban middle class doesn't really care about caste, except in matrimonial ads. All they are concerned is an opportunity is to reap rewards of liberalisation - to earn good dough, buy a house, travel and live a life which their parents could never imagine. This controversy has definitely touched a nerve. These very same people have begun to eye their 'reserved' counterparts with contempt. Discrimination which was on the wane is showing its ugly face. I, for one, am a complete proponent of reservation on an economic basis. If the purpose is to spread India's new found wealth to the hinterland, then why pursue it on caste - the bane of Indian society?

I hate to say this, but the two people whom I admired in the present administration - Oxford Manmohan and Harvard Chidambaran - are nothing but lame sycophants speaking out for a retrograde step. The-behind-the-Union-Carbide-disaster-in-Bhopal Mr. Arjun Singh at the fag end of his political career tries to rejuvenate his position as the HRD minister by hinting at reservations just before elections. And this is such a bait, which no political party can oppose. Is this another return to the socialist Nehruvian era spiced with the British ethos: divide and rule?

Sometimes, I am overawed by the Chinese rate of growth. Isn't such a benign form of communism/dictatorship better than democracy solely reliant on votes?

Do we need the Rang De Basanti storm to brew more? I bet, we do!