another step "backwards"

My dear friend Shruti Rajagopalan writes in the WSJ Asia about the Indian Supreme Court ruling on caste-based quotas in higher education. For those unfamiliar with the matter, it’s definitely worth a read.

The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management were some of the last bastions of meritocracy left in India, but it seems that they, too, have now fallen to the decades-old “temporary” quotas that have calcified in the Indian polity.

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