End of debate

I haven't participated in any debate on reservation.

Initially this was because at that time I had yet to formulate a coherent viewpoint against reservation and possible alternatives (in fact even now I am not sure).

But debates hardly matter, Karan Thapar might have rubbed Arjun Singh's nose in manure but it is the old stinking reptile who is going to have last laugh.
His was a political decision intended solely for vote bank politics. As far as he was concerned no political party will dare oppose this and that's what mattered to him.
That he bulldozed through the proposal with no statistics or model for the policy of reservation should have been a clear indication of what it was really all about i.e. tyranny of majority.

Therefore debates do not matter, the die is cast. That many deserving students will suffer all because of greediness of politicians or unexorcised guilt of bleeding hearts is inconsequential.

It is ironical considering how this government is all about protecting the minority.