I am with Prof. Gopinath. The Reserved catogory students fail miserably in IITs, in general. There were articles about some students who could not get along in IITs, but I doubt any paid any attention to the articles. These students cannot go any where as they will be rejected by their own community. In IITs the input rate to students is very high, the tough JEE ensures only those who can absorb such high inputs and whose fundamentals are clear can clear not just JEE, but IIT itself. I was an average student in school(never saw a first Division-60% and above), but I did clear the JEE. Today when I look back, my fundamentals where very good. So this is what I tell people who want to clear JEE & join IIT-learn to absorb high rates of input with absolutely clear fundamentals. As regards, the reservation issue it has been kicked up by those who have no responsibilty towards the Nation and its people- their only agenda is hold on to the Chair/Seat. Here I do miss Kanshi Ram-who said no need to give crutches to women in 'Women Reservation' issue. We should learn from the American Black people headed by Martin Luther King Jr. who gave the slogan- We Will Succeed-Ham Honge Kamyab.
RE:? should OBCs do?
by Bragadeesh Srinivasan on Jun 09, 2006 08:46 PM Permalink
Yea, yea, whatever that means!!! First things first; we need to remove the reservations that the IIT and IIM coterie have in organizations in India. There is a general understanding to give preference in organizations to ppl from their alumnus whether they deserve it or not.
While an inequitable % of IITians are talented compared to their counterparts from the BITS and the RECs of the world, there are some utterly untalented IITians who sneak through to privileged institutions and companies just leveraging on their pedigree. I mean, saying "brand IIT", "IITian fundamentals" and all that s*** is fine for a few years after graduating but the tendency is to expect privileged positions till the death-bed - in a way a form of reservation. Let us see Gopinathan and the other magnanimous folks fighting against this "reservation".
Predictably, I am one of those who didn't do well on that one day in the JEE (due to my "fundamentals" :-)??) and have been branded OEC (other engineering colleges) for the rest of life :-))...what did you say??, yea! o' course, I am jealous of the IITians!!!
