India, April 15 -- In 2026, no one in their right mind can or will really oppose reserving seats for women in Parliament and state assemblies; women account for around half the population, and the plan to reserve a third of the seats in legislatures for them seems only fair (even if it seems inequitable; ideally, it should be half). In India, the Delimitation Commission usually decides which seats are to be reserved. For instance, the last Delimitation Commission reserved seats for Scheduled Castes, although this did not increase the overall number of seats. That commission also redrew the boundaries of assembly and parliamentary constituencies to ensure some homogeneity (in voter numbers) based on the 2001 Census. The commission was not ...