I see an ad "DEstinguished IIT Alumni PanIIT2006.... whoever responsible, please correct the spelling, it is embarrasing. How are the IIT grads called? IITan or IITian as written in Rediff article.
IITs can do very little if the general engineering colleges have such poor teaching. It is sad to see so many people with engineering degrees who have learnt so little and understood even less.
Frankly the whole education in India needs a lot of improvement. We learn a lot of useless things and that too wrong. I see world map printed on notebooks with whole Africa in the southern hemisphere. No teacher, no parents, no shopkeeper, noone complains. How can we be so imperfectionists about everything and still compete with others? We must take responsibility for what we do. It will be nice to know how many new inventions have come out of India (including IITs and IIMs) since JC Bose's time. Or a list of Made in India basic products that work well. e.g. I have major problem with even electrical plugpoints, does that really need a rocket scientist's brain to design correctly? I have collected a list of 100 such basic things, we've got to improve. A fellow IITan, and a darn good one :)
