Third rail is common in US political talk. Maybe new to folks here just like dig whistle politics, another common term there. Both Tharoor and DYC have been in the US and could have picked it up here too given the social circles they traffic in.

As regards reservations just on the basis of gender and economic grounds, are you sure the entitled class will not cry wolf again with an indulgent judiciary ever willing to step in to do complete (mockery of) justice?

That's not a good example since the third rail is very useful, thats the one providing energy and the other 2 are just for structural support, what even was the point there? Also do you guys realise advocating for economic reservation leads to spooky scary socialism pretty quickly? Wouldn't like that now would you?

Your solution for ending reservation like they're an oppressive regime is to fundamentally change our society to a point where we'd exceed any civilization to have ever exceeded but then you just stop that logic at the first step by saying

"Financial need based reservation" but on the other hand you wanna hold every right wing belief known to man too, to reach income based reservation we'd have to shed ourselves of any right wing beliefs and essentially become China, that's a fair sacrifice, you can't lick your honey too

So now, tell me my dear learned friend would you like advocating for full on communism? Well you have already done that anyways

On a side note I once came across this post on reddit(like 2 months ago) where a guy posted a photo of a girl absolutely failed by the society, begging, disabled, malnourished, no hope, staring into the cold night sky alone.

He captioned "these are the people that should get reservation"

if that's the first thing that comes to your mind after seeing someone like that instead of a speck of empathy and you even feel like posting that thought then even God himself can't pull you out of this neoliberal propaganda