Affirmative inaction

India needs an effective and fair system of affirmative action. But the present system is a mass of contradictions and anomalies. The basic questions — who you target, why you target and how you target them — have no coherent answer. We have moved away from an emancipatory constitutional vision. Instead of liberating us from the tyranny of compulsory identities, we have reinforced them; instead of justice, we have delivered a simulacrum of justice.

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