Srinagar, Aug. 19 -- When a society crumbles from within, it's rarely the poor who bring it down - it's the big guns, the ones already sitting comfortably at the top, who hollow it out quietly. Reservations were built for a person still tied to hardship - a household in a genuinely backward village, a family within a genuinely disadvantaged caste. That system is being gamed in plain sight, not by those it was meant to protect, but by those who no longer need protecting. The children of powerful officers and government employees - raised and schooled for years in Srinagar, Jammu, or cities their "native" village could never match - keep a Reserved Backward Area, domicile or category certificate tucked away, ready to be produced the moment ...