Frederick Noronha asks: Luis, assuming what you are saying is true, do you have any better suggestion of how to get rid of a five thousand year old legacy of discrimination and unequal opportunity ? Dr. U.G. Barad adds: Reservation of jobs for members of *'backward ' classes appears to be quite * *sensible provided the '' creamy layer '' among the backwards is excluded from it.* *Response: For the first 49 centuries of the five thousand year old legacy of discrimination and * *unequal opportunity the socalled members of the upper castes would not tolerate any exception* *being made in the casteist division of society.* For them a Sudra is a Sudra, and there was no redemption for him , no matter, how intelligent or wealthy or cultured he was. And now some descendents of the upper castes want to deny reservation to a ''backward''on thebasis of him being of a ''creamy layer.
