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India's Caste based Reservation system: Only for Reserved and nothing for Deserved?

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         We Probably hear it many times and forget it the next minute. Does it actually affect us? or it is just a political hoax? India's caste based reservation system has more often than not attracted criticisms from various sections of the society especially from the unreserved "category". Its fairness have been questioned frequently. The long ongoing and probably never ending debate about this caste based reservation system have well fortified arguments in both favor and against it. But putting modern day and India's growth in context, which one has an edge over the other? To understand it, we have to look at its history and know why did we even needed it in the first place. This reservation system is a direct result of the discrimination in our age old caste system which exist in our society. At first we had only 4 of them known as varnas, That are Brahmins (The learned class), Kshatriya (The Warrior class), Vaishyas (The Trading class) and lastly Shudras ...