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1. Everything should be merit based is a fallacious capitalist concept from the 18th century. Why? Cause not everyone is born equal. You're no better than the child of your maid. it's just that you were born with socio economic privileges that she wasn't, and this inequality will only gradually increase, putting you at a chronic advantage over her- read about the principle of Cumulative Advantage by Robert Merton to understand this better. Therefore to measure her against the same yardsticks as you would be a social, economic and mathematical anomaly and grossly unfair on her, since you had access to socio economic resources/ privileges that she simply didn't.
2. Non-reservation hence is the ultimate destination, since a society where reservation isn't needed, is also one where everyone is born with the same socio economic resources. Hence to do away with reservation, we need to eliminate the necessity for reservation (i.e. socio economic differenes). The fact that privileged kids (the author, in context of the socio economic realities in India) lack the clarity and empathy to realize this, and quite happy to enjoy his own privileges at the cost of others, show that we're far from there.