Vembu Sir. Instead of asking NRIs to come, arguing merit vs. reservations, improve the Cliqbot which struggle to extract Zoho mails and search through workdrive, our bots in slack takes logs from JIRA, reads outlook, edit quips, uploads change on gerrit-not even on same system.
I have never believed in "merit" the way you believe it. Your notion of merit is to have ultra-competitive exams and we pick the "best" performers.
Zoho Schools of Learning has never worked that way. That has been true for 22 years.
This has nothing to do with politics for me. I fundamemtally reject competitive examinations as the approach to find talent.
In order to avoid the politics of reservation, the best course is to open a lot of colleges so finding a seat is never hard. That happened in TN and is starting to happen all over India, even in medical education.
But college itself is not the be all and end all. We have to promote a lot of private sector investment in skill development. This is part of private sector investment in R&D.
We spend a lot of resources on these in Zoho. It works.