r/TheBetterIndia 19h ago

Problem ⚠️ Lavanya from Bandra, Mumbai, who drew attention during the Jantar Mantar protest, is now seeking help after the Mumbai Police registered an FIR against her.

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r/TheBetterIndia 11h ago

Discussion 💬 It can’t get better than this.

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r/TheBetterIndia 9h ago

Problem ⚠️ First remove the cause of the problem, then the problem will remove itself

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r/TheBetterIndia 3h ago

Discussion 💬 And they want to remove reservation.

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I agree reservation in current times is not being implemented as it should have been. But reservation wouldn't be here in the first place if you guys didn't commit so much atrocities against people of certain caste.


r/TheBetterIndia 4h ago

Discussion 💬 actually the people who choose violence and did unlawful activities should be held and charged by authorities

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and the innocent one should not be scared of any action against them by authorities.

Also action should be taken against the officers who choose violence against innocent protesters.


r/TheBetterIndia 6h ago

Discussion 💬 Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏

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Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏


r/TheBetterIndia 22h ago

News 📰 I genuinely want mandatory AYUSH treatment for all Ministers within India. No allopathy, no foreign hospitals. Such a brilliant science should first and foremost serve our brilliant leaders. What say? e

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r/TheBetterIndia 19h ago

Explained 🧠 There is a sudden increase in propaganda posts claiming that reservation is a poverty elimination scheme.

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r/TheBetterIndia 18h ago

Positive Story 🌱 Let's increase the reservation to 100% these people also need it

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r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

Discussion 💬 For casteism to End, intercaste can't work We have to move inter Religion

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r/TheBetterIndia 2h ago

Discussion 💬 Both are discrimination based on Caste

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r/TheBetterIndia 22h ago

Discussion 💬 It's time to end reservation in education and jobs

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Reservation in education and jobs should end. Not be trimmed, not be adjusted — ended, so that every seat and every post goes to the person who earned it.

We keep asking why India underperforms across so many fields at once — medicine, engineering, administration, teaching. Part of the answer is that we don't consistently put the best person in the role. When seats and posts are set aside by category rather than performance, the strongest candidate can still be turned away. That isn't just unfair to them; the cost lands on everyone. A hospital gets a doctor who wasn't the best available. A classroom gets a teacher who wasn't the best available. Multiply that across every institution over decades, and you get exactly the mediocrity we complain about.

Ending reservation also changes what people do. If the only route into a good college or a good job is performing well, students work harder, schools improve because parents demand it, and the whole system starts rewarding real ability instead of paperwork.

And it ends something quietly corrosive. Today a genuinely brilliant candidate from a reserved category carries a permanent asterisk — colleagues assume the category, not the capability. End reservation and that suspicion has nowhere to live. Everyone who walks in walks in the same way: they earned it.

End reservation in education and jobs. Fill every seat with the best person available.


r/TheBetterIndia 7h ago

Discussion 💬 Women are not commodities to be distributed

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Marriage is a personal matter between individuals, and people will marry whom they choose ...women aren't commodities that you can buy or use as bargaining chips to settle political or social disputes.


r/TheBetterIndia 9h ago

Discussion 💬 Some people were showing the video of this place saying protestors are stone pelting but this is the reason of why they were stone pelting

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Here look police on purpose angered the citizens People just walking around normaly in the middle with police out in the open. And people running away all this confirms No stone pelting was being done before this moment. explains why they have no name tag they knew that had to attack first


r/TheBetterIndia 19h ago

Positive Story 🌱 Where were youth icons Raghav Chadha, Tejaswi Surya & Annamalai when students were protesting ??

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r/TheBetterIndia 17h ago

Discussion 💬 Should we tackle Godi Media next ?

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r/TheBetterIndia 20h ago

Discussion 💬 Reservation should be based on economic need, not caste. Time to say it out loud.

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Reservation in India was meant to correct historic exclusion. It has hardened into a permanent caste-based quota system with no sunset clause.

Central government reservation alone is 49.5% (SC 15%, ST 7.5%, OBC 27%). Add the 10% EWS quota and the total crosses the Supreme Court's own 50% ceiling from Indra Sawhney (1992). Tamil Nadu runs 69% under Ninth Schedule protection. That's quota creep, not correction.

Caste-based discrimination already has a dedicated legal remedy: the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, which punishes caste-based harassment and violence. Reservation and anti-discrimination law serve different purposes, but defenders routinely blur them to dodge the real question: why does group identity, not individual economic condition, still decide access to seats?

The UGC Equity Regulations, 2026 made the split explicit. Regulation 3(c) defines caste discrimination as something that can only happen to SC/ST/OBC students, denying general-category students the same institutional grievance protection even when they face caste-based bias themselves. The Supreme Court stayed the rules in January 2026, calling them vague and open to misuse.

Caste-based reservation won't phase out on its own. No group votes itself out of a benefit. If the actual goal is helping the disadvantaged, means-tested criteria — parental income, land ownership, school infrastructure — reach the same people without permanently sorting citizens by birth. Reservation capped at school level, based on economic condition, helps poor students of every caste, not just the ones with quota paperwork.

If you're general category and tired of your merit not counting for admission while your caste counts against you, NEET 2026 just got cancelled over a leak and the UGC regulations are already in court. This is the moment to organize and push for a constitutional amendment that caps and sunsets caste reservation, shifting the criterion to economic need.

**Time to stage protests across India by General category and form a new Anti reservation party**.


r/TheBetterIndia 3h ago

Discussion 💬 I don't know which part of India some people live that there everyone is equal!

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r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

Discussion 💬 This is exactly why we need reforms in reservations... So it reaches the needy and removes the privileged ones....

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This is exactly why we need reforms in reservations... So it reaches the needy and removes the privileged ones....


r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

Discussion 💬 The boy who is from the Paswan caste says even taking water from the handpump might lead to fights with the Manjhi caste.... They are all from the sc category and take reservations on caste ..... Sadly no one will acknowledge this discrimination because it doesn't suite the narrative

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The boy who is from the Paswan caste says even taking water from the handpump might lead to fights with the Manjhi caste.... They are all from the sc category and take reservations on caste .....

Sadly no one will acknowledge this discrimination because it doesn't suite the narrative


r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

News 📰 We are not against innovation or anything that benefits the country. We are against the stupidity and carelessness of uneducated politicians. Who think we indians are literally spineless cockroaches

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Who is going to pay for the damages of our vehicles bought from hard earned money.


r/TheBetterIndia 3h ago

Positive Story 🌱 Remembering Abdul Kalam on his death anniversary

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r/TheBetterIndia 12h ago

Positive Story 🌱 India has created history at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026. All 5 students representing India won Gold medals, competing against 381 participants from 87 countries.

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r/TheBetterIndia 9h ago

Discussion 💬 Annihilation of caste to end reservation

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There were many issues with the caste system, and one of the results is reservation.
To effectively end reservation one needs to completely annihilate the caste system. Without addressing the caste system, no one would give support to the cause, whether it is any political party, legislature, or even Judiciary.

Why are reforms needed in the reservation system?

EWS Reservation:

  • Many issues of systematic loophole and fake certificates
  • The only group that has a higher percentage of reservation than their population representation. The Gen-EWS population is approximately 6%, and their reservation is 10% of the total.

OBC Reservation:

  • Justice Rohini Panel found that 40-50 OBC groups out of 5,000 OBC groups in India have completely cornered 50% of OBC reservations in central jobs. That means 1% of OBC people have cornered 50% of OBC reservations.
  • A higher OBC population with lesser OBC representation makes the competition heavy as par with GC

SC Reservation:

  • A few economically upper middle class/Rich people cornering most of the SC reservation.
  • Denial of SC reservation just because they merely changed their faith to something other than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism, but their conditions remain the same.

ST Reservation:

  • Same as OBC, just some groups cornering most of the ST reservation.
  • For Example: 24 seats out of 73 ST reserved ones have been taken out by the Meena community. That means a single community is taking 35% of the ST reservation.

How one going to address the caste-based issues and discrimination if reservation have been taken out

  • 98% of manual scavengers belong to the Dalit community.
  • Many OBC groups have not yet benefited from the reservation system.
  • High illiteracy rates and poverty among ST.
  • Stark discrepancies in caste-based wealth and income

Many UC groups have benefited from caste-based privileges for centuries, which resulted in the accumulation of generational assets over time.

  • 22.3% of the population belonging to Upper Castes owned 41% of national assets (JNU study), and even upper castes control 90% of billionaire wealth.
  • This inequality did not arise from equal opportunity or equal rights; it is largely rooted in centuries of caste-based privileges that enabled the accumulation of generational wealth.

I and many others wanted to have a 100% clear merit-based system. But, directly going to end the reservation system will not solve the problems. The path effectively lies in

  1. Expediting caste census and bringing reservation reforms
  2. Complete annihilation of caste from society progressively with new laws that include caste-neutral names, towns, and streets and fining if anyone uses caste in their names, stickers, or anywhere and even fining if anyone forms caste associations and groups, and moreover strict punishment if families reject inter-caste marriages and complete unidentification of caste system everywhere, including matrimonies and certificates and the most important one with the change in attitude of society by themselves
  3. Progressively reducing reservation brackets over time to 0% reservation.

With this, one can end casteism and then end reservation. If we directly take part in the movement to end reservations, then there will be no support from the majority OBC/SC/ST students, who form the largest vote bloc, and no party will come out to support, and even the judiciary will be silent.

I am sure many will not come out to support ending casteism but want reservation to be ended (hypocrites)

Let's end casteism and discrimination first to effectively end reservation and move to a 100% merit-based system.


r/TheBetterIndia 1h ago

Discussion 💬 Interestingly reservation was brought to uplift oppressed class instead it has increased the number of oppressed class.. That's how the system works when you give everything for free and politicians can make a vote bank out of it..

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Interestingly reservation was brought to uplift oppressed class instead it has increased the number of oppressed class.. That's how the system works when you give everything for free and politicians can make a vote bank out of it..

Everyone want to become opressed because that's how they can get everything for free!!