You study 15 hours a day. Your father works 16 hours, losing half his income to taxes. Your mother sacrifices everything to keep the dream alive. And what does the system reward this sacrifice with? court battles where state governments fight not to expand opportunity, but to push reservation quotas up to 73%. The message is clear: in india, merit is punished, mediocrity is subsidized. If you ever wonder why india lags behind while other nations surge, look no further. The system is designed to suffocate its own talent.
1. Merit Becomes a Liability
In any developed country, merit is celebrated, rewarded, and incentivized. In india, merit becomes a curse. You top exams, but your seat vanishes into the black hole of quotas. You build skills, but opportunity is rationed. In a system where 73% of positions are reserved, hard work doesn’t just lose — it’s mocked.
2. Parents Carry the Weight, the System Breaks It
The middle-class father pays 50–60% of his income in taxes. The mother sacrifices comfort to build her child’s future. Yet the state that feeds off their sweat denies their children equal opportunity. This isn’t social justice. This is systemic betrayal.
3. Brain Drain Isn’t a Mystery — It’s a Policy Outcome
Why does india bleed talent to the US, UK, Canada, and Australia? Because those countries reward merit, whereas india throttles it. Every IIT/IIM graduate who builds wealth abroad is a direct product of India’s refusal to provide fair chances at home. The reservation raj is the biggest exporter of talent india never wanted to keep.
4. Reservation Inflation = Development Deflation
When reservations climb to 73%, the maths is simple: meritocracy drops to 27%. How can a nation of 1.4 billion compete globally when its brightest minds are told they don’t matter? Every percentage point of reservation beyond fairness is not empowerment — it’s a slow national suicide.
5. The Real Reason india Stays Underdeveloped
Politicians will never admit it. But here’s the truth: India’s underdevelopment is not about resources, it’s about choices. Leaders choose vote-bank politics over nurturing talent. They choose reservations for power over reforms for progress. india has chosen to cripple itself — and then asks why it still crawls while the world runs.
⚡ Bottom Line:
This country doesn’t just fail its brightest — it actively hates them. It rewards political arithmetic over human potential. Every year, lakhs of hardworking families sacrifice blood, sweat, and tears only to realize the system was rigged against them from the start. Until merit is restored as the backbone of opportunity, india will keep exporting brilliance abroad and importing mediocrity at home.
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