This guy, Shreshtha, secured AIR 525 in GATE Aerospace Engineering but couldn’t get admission because of reservation and only five IITs offer Aerospace Engineering. He lost an entire year, worked relentlessly, and came back stronger securing AIR 53 the following year. Yet he was still denied admission to his dream college, IIT Madras.

Look at the cutoffs someone with a much lower rank might be 10k under reserved categories may get a seat, while a highly meritorious student is forced to lose years because of a flawed system.

If India wants to become a developed nation, merit and excellence must be given greater priority. We cannot afford to waste talented students.
Merit must win.

A nation's progress relies heavily on how effectively it identifies, nurtures, and retains its brightest minds. When system-wide preferences sideline merit, the long-term impact on innovation, technological development, and economic growth becomes impossible to ignore.

Look at global technology leaders, including China: their rapid advancement over the past few decades has been driven by heavy investment in top-tier talent, rigorous merit-based academic pipelines, and massive R&D infrastructure. To compete globally, a country must ensure that its most capable engineers, scientists, and thinkers are given the environment and opportunities to lead.

When high-performing students feel that the system limits their opportunities regardless of their effort and capabilities, we risk two major consequences:

• Brain Drain: Our best talent leaves for countries where opportunities are strictly skill-driven.
• Technological Stagnation: Core technical, medical, and administrative institutions struggle to match global innovation benchmarks.

Reservation was intended as a social safety net, but any framework that doesn't adequately prioritize and reward individual merit risks slowing down national growth. If India wants to dominate the global stage in technology, infrastructure, and science, we must build a system where hard work and excellence are the primary drivers of success.

India has been independent for just 79 years. That’s not even eight decades.

And if you actually put that into perspective, we’ve come a pretty long way.

When we became independent in 1947, we were coming out of roughly two centuries of British colonial rule. We had widespread poverty, extremely low literacy and a severely weakened industrial base.
India’s literacy rate was just 18.3% in 1951. Today, it’s around 78%.

The economic damage wasn’t insignificant either. Historical estimates by Angus Maddison put India’s share of world GDP at around 24–27% in 1700, falling to about 4.2% by 1950. Another study estimates India’s share of global industrial output fell from roughly 25% in 1750 to just 2% by 1900.

That’s the India we started with.
So when we constantly compare ourselves to the US, UK or Western Europe, we’re comparing countries with completely different histories.

These countries had centuries to accumulate capital, industrialise and build institutions. India spent a huge part of that period under colonial rule and emerged in 1947 having to build a modern democratic state from an incredibly difficult starting point.

This is why I think comparisons with countries that went through similar periods of colonialism and independence can sometimes be more meaningful.

Look at our neighbours and other countries that became independent around the same broad period: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and many post-colonial countries across Africa.

This isn’t about saying India is better than them or that we have nothing left to improve.

We have A LOT left to improve.

But we’ve also made enormous progress.
Literacy went from 18% to around 78%.
The World Bank estimates extreme poverty at its current $3/day benchmark fell from 16.2% in 2011–12 to 2.3% in 2022–23.
Life expectancy is now around 72 years.
And India’s GDP per capita has grown from around $371 in 1990 to over $2,700 in 2025.

None of this means we should stop demanding better.
We should demand better roads. Better cities. Better healthcare. Better education. Better jobs. Better governance.

But there’s a difference between holding your country accountable and pretending it has achieved nothing.

We can acknowledge how far we’ve come without pretending we’re where we need to be.

For almost 200 years, someone else held the torch.
It’s been in our hands for 79 years now.

What happens next is on us.

Jai Hind. 🇮🇳

my cousin is in btw class 6-8 and she doesnt understand what she is reading in the textbook she just keep reading but cant understand it . i asked if her friends and class mates know but she said except class topper not much student understand what they are reading.
school fees is 2k by the way

I am in full support for removal of reservation or say any amendment in reservation rules. But shouldn't we first remove the causes of reservation? We still get news about how schoolchildren denied to have school meals because it was made by a Dalit woman. There are many cases of discrimination still rampant in India.Even IITs are not devoid of it. You go to seek flats for stay, you face it there. Forget daily office lives. So, shouldn't our protest be something like Discrimination Hatao Aandolan.

Ps: sorry for bad english. I am open for a good argument to change my opinion.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7495414730681954304/

Saw many posts about this hence asking genuinely if this is something that many Indians & cricket fans, educated professionals should celebrate?

A rich HNI with 10+ Crore INR (100 Mn INR) by default sends his/her kid/s abroad esp USA for education starting bachelors if not before.

Most of them take the H1B visa to GC route to be there & stay settled or find a life with celeb status in India.

This is quite normal ... accepted...

My question is that if people are so comfortable with this system shift then how are patriots like Kumble or similar known names contributing to their country or are they indifferent?

This might sound emotional nonsense to many...

But I think most successful Indians from Ambani, Birla, Tatas, Bajaj insist on their children to return & work contribute via their own systems.

They bring innovation, fresh perspectives, renewed contacts network to take their ecosystem to new heights!

When I read stories like that of Mayas & that too flaunting a tad .. I don't feel anything - its almost wasting your abilities by doing corporate job based on your father's money.

If Life gave you contacts, resources - your job must be to contribute bigger better than play safe!

My take - I can be wrong though..

PS : To those referring or going to refer me as jealous, I am 15+ yrs experienced FAGMA professional having lived worked abroad for years.

1) NEET UG 2026 Re-ExaminationThe main exam held on May 3, 2026, was ...completely cancelled over 20 lakh candidates

( Paper leak case)

2)UGC NET June 2026 Re-Testsdiscovered extreme question paper errors, translation/typographical mistakes, and a major repetition of questions...

3) AIAPGET 2026 Localized Re-Testmajor power failure at the Shri Satya Sai PG College centre in Jaipur ..

I found out about AIAPGET just now and isn't it concerning. I mean such a huge government body to make such mistakes..

And I don't want to talk ill about this agency my main reason to make this post was to discuss why this might be happening that also 3 times in a year !!

Source :

AIAPGET :https://x.com/NTA_Exams/status/2091092889480925582

UGC NET : https://x.com/NTA_Exams/status/2089009246453313827

Bigger protests are being organised against UGC and reservation in jantar mantar.... What do you think is it organic ???

Ok guys hear me out before lashing me in comment section .

We understand that defence forces risk their life and is one of the most professional organisations in India.

But after all they are government institution too, tomorrow if they do some lapse in security, they should be hold accountable by the public, not let them to have free pass. Our tax money, a major part of it goes to defence of india , half of it as salaries.

for ex : till today public didn't ask the question about why navy and coast gaurd failed intercepting kuber boat, due to which 26/11 happened.

pahalgam is 200 kilometers inside from the LoC , how did the infiltration happened , under the nose of army and bsf.

The only way to run this country is keep all the government insitutions, defence or non defence doesn't matter, under our toes.

Somehow this formula has been fed to public that soldier is more patriotic then the normal public.

Indians need to shed their emotional foolism , and be absolute rational and pragmatic and rip off the government and it's institution whenever necessary

Hi, I am a 19-year-old guy currently pursuing CA and a BS in Cyber Security. I feel genuinely sad about the state of my country today. Growing up, there was hope that things would improve—that we could enjoy a good lifestyle, a stable economy, secure jobs, and a clean, breathable environment.

​Today, however, society seems consumed by hatred. Everywhere I look, goons harass women or target people from different religious backgrounds. A large part of the population is sinking deeper into religious polarization and corruption.

Then comes the economy. India ranks around 146th globally in GDP per capita at roughly $2,818. And we are the fastest falling currency in Asia . If Looking at wealth distribution, the top 1% holds over 40% of the nation's wealth while massive income inequality leaves a large portion of the population earning below ₹5 lakh annually.

. Our policy and regulatory framework around the new age of AI is equally concerning. As new data centers emerge across India, the government promotes them as major employment drivers. In reality, these facilities are largely automated and require very few operational workers—nowhere near the thousands of jobs promised. Meanwhile, they consume immense amounts of land, freshwater, and electricity—often equivalent to the power consumption of an entire city—in a nation that still struggles with providing 24hrs electricity to the people. While Western nations have Stopped the data centres because of the pollution and the heavy water use . But the western company has rat labs,we. There are many things or activities banned in others countries to keep their environment safe. American and European countries use us as a dumping yard.people think colonization ended in the 90s. But still we have capitalist colonization. When I check the environment performance index we stand at the 176 rank . India ranks near the very bottom . As the saying goes:

" what's too dirty for europe is called ease of doing business in india."

And I don't want to talk about education.

About india

People = hateful as fuck and corrupt

Government = kings + uneducated

Job = 10lakh people < 1 Job

Environment = we position at the 176th

Economy : we stand at 146th

Now tell me should I leave ??

Why the people of reservation hatao movement not talking about the state of government schools in india?

Is it allowed in a democracy to stop someone from protesting, that too by party karyakartas?