THE GREAT INDIAN EDUCATIONAL TAMASHA

Ask an average Indian science student about what he wants to do in the future. Most often than not, the answer would be, ‘I want to do IIT.’ Ask him what he thinks about his career and he will yank his eyebrows and repeat, ‘I want to do IIT.’

For an Indian science student the journey to IIT is a heroic quest for the Holy Grail. And much like the Grail itself, they don’t understand what they are after. For them IIT is a magic castle, straight out of grandma’s...