The one legged Royal Crow

பாலையின் கோடையில் அரியதாய் பூத்த  பாதிரி மலராக நெஞ்சில் பூத்த மாமை நிறத்தவளே கைகோர்ப்பது கனவென்பதால் கனவு மட்டும் காண பழகிக் கொள்கிறேன், எழுந்ததும் மறக்கும் வித்தையை யாரிடம் கற்பது என்றறியாமல்.

Equality, the edifice upon which every modern democracy is built, takes a lot more than a mere mention in the Constitution to actually affect society. For a country trying to build itself from scratch, it becomes a challenge to distribute the limited resources reasonably and rationally. For a policy to be justifiable, it must provide equal opportunity to every class of its citizens. Reservation policy in India is intended to provide a representation to the marginalised. It has been a tool to achieve equality ascribed in the preamble of our Constitution, and rightfully so. The Indian Judiciary, the supposed vanguard of the Indian Constitution, has always been at loggerheads with the legislature while adjudicating the constitutional validity of various laws enacted to provide reservation. The trajectory that Indian Judiciary has taken in interpreting the laws providing for reservation is from a strict formal interpretation impervious to the existing socio-cultural and structural ineq