What has IIT done for India?

I felt a strong connection with the author’s views as I was reading Five Point Someone. This is one book which any college student will be able to bond with and enjoy, mainly because it reflects the feelings that goes on in the minds of all those who hate the basic educational system of our country and are desperately trying to break out of it.

There is one thing that no one can object in this book. IIT being the best institution of our country has not contributed anything to India. It sucks into it the best brains of India (probably even the world), makes them excellent muggers and finally puts them in a neat package and sends them to the US of A or one of the world’s leading MNC’s. With the brightest minds of the country within one campus for more than 30 years, why has it not been able to bring out even one invention that has rocked the world and made the other countries turn to look at India? Why has it not been able to kindle the creativity and imagination of the students who deserve to be recognized?

A few years back, the students of IIT-M came up with an ingenious way of splitting the LASER beam in fibre optics transmission to accommodate many signals in one line. They took financial help from Denmark and finally came up with a breakthrough in telephone communication. But there was no industry back up for implementing it in our Country. The same students joined a US firm after their studies and gave them the idea. In the end US got patent for the invention. There was another group of students who came up with a way by which if the modem dials internet, the no. is recognized as a net no. and is directly connected to the ISP instead of using up the telephone connection causing congestions in lines. But the idea was later bought by a private ISP who sold it to a US company. They use our laboratory, our resources, get help from our professors and then…

The Malaysian government gives financial support for its students to go to Australian universities but with the condition that they must come back and serve their country after their studies. Here, the Singapore government gives financial aid to Indian students to get their higher education in NTU or NUS with the condition that they have to serve Singapore after their studies!!!! If you ask me…India must impose restrictions on IITians and NITians to go out of India. It may sound too harsh but think about it… India provides education to you for 21 years but in the end you give it all up to work as slaves to some foreign multinational in return for their peanut salary. Think of how much you can do for this country in return. India is our crippled, suffering, neglected mother crying out desperately for our attention…helpppppp!!!!!!!