The ‘tryst with destiny’ that India made long years ago was not redeemed at the stroke of mid-night on 14th of august, 1947, either substantially or in fullest measure. In fact, it has not been redeemed at all if the Report Card on our efforts in the last sixty years to make our society an all-inclusive one is any indication. It is true that there is no ‘undo’ command which can erase all the wrongs that have been perpetrated in last 5,000 years, with pressing of a button but it is equally true that in the sixty years that have elapsed since Independence as least some positive noticeable changes could have made. However, that fact the caste based reservations have been given extension decade after decade and their ambit gradually extended to cover more and more castes and avenues, is a sad but telling comment on the ‘sincerity’ of the successive governments, regardless of their political stripes, in realizing the dream for which millions of Indians fought the mightiest empire in the world history. And the government’s decision to implement the 27 percent reservations for OBCs in higher education institutes from this year itself without paying any thought to the needed infrastructure is nothing but a grand farce being enacted solely with next years elections in sight. Despite the fact that we have had a Dalit heading the Constituent Assembly, later on a Dalit president also and now a Dalit Chief Justice of India, for majority of Indians “Ye Azadi Jhootha hai”. Apart from these aberrations caste based reservations have only social balkanization to their credit. It is high time that we pause and think about the other options realizing the dream of Fathers of our Constitution