Niraj feels that the proposed 'Reservation' is a blessing in disguise for everyone from the 'General' category. The objection to Reservation, as raised by many, is that it would not give the equal oppotunity of Education to everyone. If we consider the words 'equal' and 'opportunity', then obviously they are right. But, the moment we consider the third and as Niraj thinks most important part 'Education', eveything turns upside down. Here, why is very natural question.
And This is why...
Niraj has seen that IITs and IIMs has kidnapped the real 'education' from the lives of majority of talented Indians. Being a talented kid in India means you will grow up and encash your talent via these two routes. Niraj takes his own example. Every person in his neigbourhood suggested him to study maths and english better, not because this would make you any good. Rather, without doing good in these two, your rest of education can't be encashed and hence useless.
For an average guy, the real education is stopped way back in secondary classes. Thereafter he starts concentrating on his science subjects and what kind of education one gets in an engineering college should not be discussed much. So, by the end of it all, he remains an uneducated in real sense and becomes an expert technician. Niraj has seen instances of IITians demanding huge dowries. Such instances by IAS guys is fairly common one and again should not be discussed further in order to save oneself from sounding cliched.
In case of IIMs, it's even worse. Of all people, about whom Niraj knows that they are interested in getting into IIMs, no one has given him any other reason for getting into IIMs excepting the kind of money it offers. There are a few exceptions, obviously. But those are exceptions and which make this 'rule' even more credible.
Now, if the talented mass of India discovers the real education, only after being deprived of seast from IITs and IIMs, Niraj says this is the best it can get.

If you read the last blog-entry and if you happen to read the book called "Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", then you must have noted that Niraj somehow is very much impressed by the book and in fact some ideas in the last entry are those mentioned in the book and rest are his take on those ideas. This book has changed many of the firm beliefs Niraj has had for quite some time. And, Niraj like anybody else is impressed by anyone, who is able to show him his fallacy. The problem is there are many guys like that, but Niraj always finds some way out in front of them, but Pirsig's idea is so ......, you know what, Niraj hasn't been able to refute even one of them.
This is the strange thing about the books. When you are reading and when you are reading something like this, you feel that you are reading most important literary work of all time. But books don't change much, especially if you are a guy like Niraj. Niraj is someone, who will read.. say "My Experiments with Truth" and agree with the most of things mentioned in the book, but in his day-to-day life he will continue to do the things as he has been doing. When you ask him about it, he will, on most of the occasions, modify whatever he has read into something that justifies his actions, knowing well, that he is wrong. Actually not knowing very well, because this is what he has observed in himself. When he wants to lie, he kind of prepares himself for it. That is very simple. Just forget that whatever you are lying is actually a lie. This also gives your lie a truth-like appearance. But, he faces problem, when he starts analysing the problem in hindsight. On most of the occasion, he's not able to make it clear to himself that whether he started pretending the fact to be a truth or the fact is really truth. Though he has a good memory ( yeah, he can almost say that), he is not able to recall the exact circumstances. And, this is because, to Niraj nothing in this world is important enough or everything is equally important. For him, his life basically consists of only one thing at any given moment. One, what's happening to him at exactly that moment and if not much is happening, then whatever he can remember at that moment.
Perhaps I have lost my trck. Yeah, the problem with books. So if you really think any book has changed your life, don't think about how it has changed your dream. Instead, think of how it has changed whatever that you do after waking up to realise your dreams.

Dreams.....love them...but some other time.