Indradeep Mukherjee

“But if we go in for reservations on communal and caste basis, we swamp the bright and able people and remain second-rate or third-rate. I am grieved to learn of how far this business of reservation has gone based on communal considerations. It has amazed me to learn that even promotions are based sometimes on communal or caste considerations. This way lies not only folly, but disaster. Let us help the backward groups by all means, but never at the cost of efficiency.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers 1947-1963