A slice of the pie

Worm's Eye View

 A Parsi friend once pointed out that there was a damn good argument in favour of reservation. Without reservations, he said, nobody from a minority community or a scheduled caste/tribe (SC/ST) would ever find employment in India with its embedded traditions of bigotry.

 He was articulating one of the standard arguments heard at cocktail-parties when the subject comes up. Somebody says piously that reservation is the only way to