Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who wears the suit and panche with equal panache, recently justified the fresh call for reservations, saying South India's progress vis-a-vis the rest of the country had shown that reservations work. Not so, says Pratap Bhanu Mehta in this fine piece in that very fine newspaper, The Telegraph:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060505/asp/opinion/story_6177300.asp