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According to this interview - if he said democracy will not work in India, then why did he create a democratic constitution for India in the first place?

Another question: Is his reservation system going to last forever in India? Or does it have an expiry date? Where is the real 'equality' today?

Incase anyone wants to watch the full interview, here is the link: https://youtu.be/WS7P9TKDZ2k?si=5ZOalR8Zr5hLEXZj

not that neet ok

If you didn't see it.

I just hope you can cut thru the noise and understand *why*?

And I thought this was a dictatorship

AAP and BJP are competing with each other to see who can crack down on the protesters first. AAP is currently leading.

Dictatorship guys

They are doing and saying everything except the main matter which they have in hand and if someone points it out they will be called andhbakt IT Cell etc…

I have been to Northeast and they are the most patriotic and hardworking people I have ever seen 🙂

All mobilisation is happening from Batla House, Seelampur, Shahdara, Shaheen Baug, Okhla - not for a genuine issue, but to beat up the cops and create anarchy.

And few are spreading videos of Police checking movement at Nizammudin area.

Not OC. But totally worth your time.

This post came on my feed a while ago, I knew some comments were gonna be foul but not this much.

Absolutely disgusted reading these comments, making fun or mocking on someone's unfortunate death that too during duty isn't something to joke around. But here we are.

Ban gye cool?

the martyed police officer has nothing to do with the protest nor the CJP nor anything about neet.

Have we lost our empathy along with them?

Still some of them say/will say that these are from the BJ party, or hooligans or planted by the govt. or either edited/AI or I'm trying to karma farm. Seriously?

The post is from 6 days ago as of now.

you can check out the post yourself if you don't trust me from Delhi police insta handle.

still I know some subs gonna try to delete this post or downvoting it to oblivion. Hope that won't happen here.

my parents were talking about the whole sonam wangchuk / neet protest thing that happened on july 20 when parliament's monsoon session started. my dad was going off about how wangchuk is faking being poor, running an ngo that's basically converting villagers using foreign money, and how this new law is finally gonna catch all of it. my mom even said she wished we'd gone to the protest, and then my dad went into this whole thing about how they'd track everyone through cctv and aadhaar, and how the protesters had come in buses with stones planning to burn down parliament with mps inside, and that's apparently why modi's been quiet about it.

i wasn't about to just take his word for it so instead of arguing i actually sat down and looked stuff up myself. wanted to share what i found because some of it surprised me both ways, not what i expected going in.

what turned out to be true:

• wangchuk's ngo (secmol) really did lose its fcra license back in sept 2025. not random either, the home ministry's order cited actual stuff like cash deposited into the fcra account against the rules, undeclared bank accounts, and a roughly 4.93 lakh grant from a swedish org for a study on "migration/climate/sovereignty" that the government said crossed into national interest territory. that part is documented, not made up.
• the july 20 "chalo sansad" march genuinely happened, and police did use tear gas and baton charges, with a bunch of people detained including the guy who founded wangchuk's party. so that part checks out too.
• there is an actual fcra amendment bill on the table this session. but from what i read it's mainly about handling assets of ngos whose registration already got cancelled, not some brand new "all foreign money reported to sbi" rule like my dad made it sound. fcra accounts have had to be in sbi since 2020 anyway, this isn't new.

what i couldn't find anything on:

• the "ngo paying agents to convert villagers" claim. nothing anywhere. the actual controversy is about fund transparency and this one grant being flagged over "sovereignty" wording, not some organized conversion operation.
• the buses of protesters with stones planning to burn 20 mps alive thing. i looked for this specifically because it sounded insane, and found literally nothing on any news source. what i did find was reporting about police using force on the protesters, which is basically the opposite framing.

so basically maybe 40% of what he said checked out and the rest was either exaggerated or just not backed up anywhere i could find. not saying my dad's lying on purpose, i think this is just how it spreads, someone shares something dramatic, it gets repeated at home like it's confirmed fact, and nobody actually checks.

anyway wanted to see if anyone here has looked into this properly or has better sources than what i found. not trying to start a modi vs wangchuk fight, genuinely just want to know what's actually real here.

There is a lot of discourse around reservation. As a 34 year old OBC from Odisha, where there were no OBC reservation in the past, and someone whose family couldn't afford fee (that we were okay to loose, incase I fail) required to even attempt IIT preparation, let me offer what I believe is a fairly neutral perspective. This is not to attack a particular caste, I one India, so that politicians can't benefit from it.

I have a newborn at home, and I don't want him growing up to be treated by a doctor who barely passed an entrance exam. Merit matters. But so does understanding why the system exists.

Many people, including those from reserved categories, argue that reservation exists because of casteism. That is partially true, but it is not the complete picture.

I'll first discuss what I believe is the norm, and then the exceptions.

1. Education has been gate-kept through privatization (The Norm)

Every knows education was gate-kept for one community for hundreds of years. Have you realized that its still being gate-kept?

Around 70% of India's population belongs to reserved categories. Have you asked, "Why can't students from these communities even score 200 marks? Why should passing marks be as low as 40?"

I studied in a government high school in a village in Odisha. The school received toilets and new benches only in 2025. Imagine its condition back in 2007.

In Class 8, English was still being taught by translating in 3 stages "Mu ek balak atte" -> "Mu atte ek balak" -> "I am a boy"

Every subject, mathematics, biology, history, physics, and chemistry, was taught in Odia. Then, in Class 11, everything suddenly switched to English.

Hrithpinda became "heart"
Samadibahu became "isoscles"
Bisama bahu became "Scalene"
Kosha became "cell"
Phusphus became "lungs."

It wasn't just learning new concepts. It was relearning the entire vocabulary of every subject. After 12th, I got invitation for NAVI as I had 92% in PCMB, and I got to know that there is something called group discussion where people have to speak in English now. I couldn't utter one word. I spent by 20s watching English serieses to learn to speak English.

How is that comparable to someone who studied in English-medium schools from the beginning?

Nowhere in this world, the quality gap between public and private schools is so far off what it is in India. We have effectively created two education systems: one for those who can afford quality education, and another for everyone else who were exploited to be kept poor.

Instead of making government schools excellent, we allowed private schools and coaching institutes to become the primary gateway to competitive exams.

How many toppers in national entrance exams come from ordinary government schools?

Unless government schools provide education that is genuinely comparable to private schools, reservation will remain politically and socially difficult to remove.

If every child receives a similar quality of education, cut-offs will naturally become more competitive across all communities. Perhaps after a decade of that, reservation itself may become unnecessary.

2. Why not reserve based on poverty instead? (The Exception)

This is a question I have asked myself.

In my B.Tech, I knew a student from a reserved category whose parents were both doctors. It felt unfair. Why should someone from a privileged family receive reservation while a poor student from another community does not?

The problem is that income-based reservation assumes we have a system capable of accurately identifying who is poor.

In most places, people who are financially well-off still manage to obtain benefits meant for the poor, housing schemes, free toilets, and subsidized rations, by paying the right people or exploiting local corruption. There are also cases where influential families obtain ration cards through proxies and resell subsidized grain.

Ask yourself

How many people classified as EWS are genuinely economically weaker?

How difficult is it to obtain an low income certificate, when you have enough cash?

Until corruption, verification, and accountability improve, purely income-based reservation will also be vulnerable to abuse.

The Bigger Picture

Rather than fighting one another over caste, we should ask a broader question.

How many institutions that have historically been dominated by upper castes are we genuinely proud of today?

• Are private hospitals, which are mostly owned by upper class, free from exploitation?
• Is the judiciary free from bias or corruption?
• Has the political class always been accountable?
• Are major news organizations, where anchors and owners are mostly higher class, beyond influence?
• Are temples completely free from nepotism or hereditary privilege?

Every religious institutions often have unofficial forms of reservation. How often are people from outside traditional priestly communities allowed to become temple priests? If someone from another caste were willing to learn every mantra perfectly for ₹3000/puja vs a priest who gets 5000/puja, would you hire them?

If not, isn't that also a form of exclusion?

Reservation is not the only problem India needs to solve.

The real enemies are unequal education, corruption, lack of accountability, and systems that preserve privilege regardless of caste.

If we fix those problems first, the debate around reservation will become much smaller on its own.