An irrelevant intervention

By one of life’s mysterious coincidences it happens that even as the Supreme Court was ruling last week that it was constitutionally valid to force private schools to reserve 25 per cent of their seats for ‘poor’ children, I was trying to exercise this right. This was on behalf of someone who is illiterate and poor and in desperate need to get his son into a Delhi school. He sought my help because the government school in his neighbourhood had promised to admit his son if he could make a ‘donation’ of Rs 25,000.

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