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The same people who scream “merit, merit, merit” every time an SC/ST/OBC candidate clears anything are the ones filling EWS seats with uncle-funded private medical college admissions, elite-school kids, IIT graduates, and MNC employees while the actual poor rot.

Michael Sandel called this exact bullshit the Tyranny of Merit. The successful convince themselves they earned everything through pure talent and hard work, then use that self-congratulation to spit on everyone else. In India that self-congratulation is soaked in caste. Reservation isn’t the problem. The caste system that still decides who gets quality schooling, who gets teacher belief, who gets wealth, and who gets zero-mark backdoor entries is the problem.

Here’s the evidence, one gut-punch at a time.

148 EWS students walked into the most expensive management and NRI quota seats in private medical colleges. Some paying up to ₹1 crore a year. The National Medical Commission chairman himself is asking how “economically weaker” candidates are suddenly able to afford this. Family money, trusts, loans — the usual. The very category sold as “poor general” is being used by people who can still buy their way in.

EWS candidates trail OBCs in UPSC mains written scores. Then magically overtake them in the interview. The same pattern every cycle. When the evaluation becomes subjective, the “merit” gap closes in favour of the dominant groups. Coincidence? Or the soft bias that never gets talked about?

104 EWS candidates selected in UPSC 2025.67 from expensive coaching institutes.28 from business families.10 holding private/MNC jobs.14 IIT/NIT graduates.

Daughter of a railway porter is the propaganda poster. Son of a security guard is the propaganda poster. The actual list is full of private-school, coaching-factory, business-family kids whose parents somehow stay under the ₹8 lakh limit. The Indian Express investigation itself calls out the gap between the stated purpose and the actual beneficiaries.

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SC, ST, OBC representation is near zero in the institutions that produce the “meritorious.” Then these same kids go out and cry that reservation is killing merit.

The pipeline was caste-cleansed long before the exam.

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Wealth distribution by caste.
ST and SC dominate the poorest quintiles.
Brahmins, Rajputs, Banias, Kayasthas dominate the richest.
This is not ancient history. This is current data. The starting line was never the same.

Pretending the race is fair after centuries of exclusion is pure gaslighting

IIT Bombay Mission Mode Recruitment: hundreds of OBC/SC/ST applications, dozens shortlisted, then mass rejection with the magic words “Not Found Suitable”.

OBC: 1090 applications → 18 selected
SC: 918 applications → 9 selected
ST: 187 applications → 4 selected

This is how “merit” is protected at the faculty level.

Just 1.92% of all IIT faculty are SC/ST/OBC. Most IITs had 0% ST reservation and overall reservation never crossed 4%.

Professor level is almost completely closed. The people teaching the next generation of “merit” are themselves the product of exclusion.

More than 20,000 SC/ST/OBC students dropped out of IITs, IIMs and Central Universities between 2018–2023.

Dropout probability is dramatically higher for SC and ST.
They get in through reservation and then face an environment designed to push them out. That is not “inability”. That is institutional hostility.

UPSC interview score sheet from a Hindi newspaper: SC candidates with higher written marks systematically given lower interview marks than General candidates with lower written scores.

Vijaykumar Meena (SC) 766 written → 112 interview
Naveenkumar Sharma (General) 732 written → 209 interview

The pattern is not subtle. It is open caste arithmetic in the final stage.

2008. Arvind Kejriwal (then Youth for Equality) organising against OBC reservation. The anti-reservation movement has always been upper-caste consolidation dressed up as “equality”.

The anti-reservation movement has always been an upper-caste consolidation project dressed up as “equality.”

Reservation exists because the system is still rigged at every stage be it schools, teacher expectations, wealth, networks, subjective interviews, and the quiet backdoors that only certain surnames can walk through.

This is the system.

Elite schools that are caste-cleansed.
Wealth that is caste-concentrated.
Interviews that flip written ranks.
“Not Found Suitable” used as a polite rejection code.
Faculty rooms that remain almost pure General.
Mass dropouts after students finally enter.
Zero-mark general candidates walking into medical seats.

And still the same people scream that reservation is the only problem.

Sandel was right. The tyranny of merit is just the new language of old caste power. They need the myth so they can keep the seats, the jobs, the faculty positions, and the moral high ground at the same time.