It might interest our politicians that America is awaiting what is formally a US Supreme Court judgment on a dispute over racially integrated schools in Louisville, Kentucky but what could turn out to be a paradigm-shifting ruling on the constitutionality of affirmative action. Among the issues being furiously debated is whether preferential treatment should be given to children of African-American parents who have benefited from affirmative action and/or are clearly affluent. This has become the almost unanswerable question for those who support the principle of state-sponsored diversity in education and employment. If India’s political class wants quotas to retain broad popular support, it will be in their own interest to revisit the question of who deserves quotas.