On Indian Education

                The Indian Institute of Technology is the Indian equivalent of Harvard- except it may be better. The students graduating from it are highly coveted across the globe. From all of India’s enormous population, they are the best of the best of the best at what they do- only about 1.7% of all applicants actually make it into the school. Located in Bombay amidst bustling markets and impoverished streets, it is a well-equipped haven for those who have qualified for its services. But there is a problem: while the Institute was originally constructed to help bring India out of its long struggle to become modern, most of the graduates actually head to the United States and become major entrepreneurial leaders, with only a few working to promote Indian welfare and improve its national status.

                In spite of this, the major goal of most Indian youths is to get into the prestigious university. The level of dedication to the goal at hand is almost scary, with many boys studying 24/7 and taking additional pre-dawn classes, while being pushed and fretted over by their parents.

                I think that while the end product of brilliant, successful and benevolent engineers is a very good thing, the level of dedication is not necessary and should be more accurately determined. I also wish that more of the graduates would stay in India and help drag their homeland out of its undernourished and overpopulated current state.