Talk:The IITians
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While the footprints of IITians lead prominently to affluence in the US, they have influenced organizations in India is countless fields: Rural education, politics, civil services, multinationals, banking, social activism are some of the examples. It almost seems that no sphere of economic activity is outside the realm of a successful IITians
In its first half century, IITs have remained successful in public eyes despite ignoring some issues which do matter in modern life. IITs are yet to venture collectively in taking their expertise outside to corporations or governments. Even IITs don’t seem to work with each other jointly complementing one another and pooling their expertise for work in frontier areas. The conduct of the joint entrance tests is by and large an exception, and is no more a novelty. It is now common practice for many top professional colleges to have exams like JEE (eg. CAT). Notably the IITs after Kharagpur, were set up at Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi by the collective efforts of foreign governments and experts coming to India to set up and transfer independent institutions.
Today, we witness the government trying to replicate the IIT success by upgrading other engineering colleges to IITs. The student intake may increase even five fold bringing IITs closer to home and easier to enter. The spirit of IIT may be difficult to retain unless special efforts are made to redefine the IIT context as conditions exist in 21st century India. It is a spirit and name brand that all IITians and Sandipan Deb agree, is one worth being proud of.
- Moved the above matter from the main page to here as it seems to me that it would make more sense to keep it in the IIT page rather than in a page about a book about IIT. Comments please. --Bolasanibk 08:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
