Friday, November 21, 2008

Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT; by Chetan Bhagat.

One reads it with some sympathy, a good deal of sheer disbelief and growing amazement - because this is a populist casual write up bordering on caricature or outright spoof, about an institution that is not only elite in terms of education, but the elite quality comes from the intellectual strength required to get in at all, in the first place. And in a nation like India, of a huge population with an intellectual tradition and history of knowledge, that is no small achievement to begin with.

One wonders if this is an alumni's attempt to clown for entertainment of his class of whatever year, or a revenge on the institution that had far brighter pass through its portals and distinguish themselves in ways other than seducing the professor's virgin daughter - if at all this did happen and was not a wishful dream.