RIP: Reservations In Private sector

Reservations in private sector??? That's only thing left to be done so that not a whit of India's brains remain in India.
I have always had my reservations over the reservation issue. It has always beaten the purpose of "uplifting the backward classes". Instead of creating a healthy atmosphere with equal oppurtunities for all, it has only embittered the rest of the society against them. Just the other day I heard one of my colleagues comment that, being a Brahmin boy in Mumbai's engineering college race is the worst possible situation one can be in.
Is it really necessary that after 57 years of independence that we should provide the crutches of reservation for the "downtrodden" so that they can stand on their own feet?

What's worse, is that by having reservations, people from backward classes take it easy: they don't need to toil that hard, don't need good scores in their academics; all they need to do is fish out the OBC or some obscure NT1 certificate each time they want to get into the creme` de la creme` of the engineering institutes, mecical colleges or business schools. What it does is, it creates virtually a red carpet for them even if they have several percents less than the requirement while the rest have to fight tooth and nail for a single mark. More importantly, what has it done to their lot? The tribals are still tribals in some inconspicuous village. To find one of these people who has made it big would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

I am also opposed to women's reservations in the LS. It is totally uncalled for. It will only create 10 more Rabri Devis sitting at the helm. Did people like Sudha Murthy and Kiran Bedi require reservations?

What can we do about it? We keep asking this question because either we really don't know how we can make a difference or it is simply a rhetoric to give ourselves an excuse for not doing anything about it.
For one you can sign this e-petition if you are anti-reservation: http://www.petitiononline.com/RESPVT/petition.html