Comments for Inside the mind and heart of Venkatesh Sridhar http://www.venkateshsridhar.com Venkatesh Sridhar blogs on things close to his heart - technology, politics, love, etc. Find out what's inside his head and heart. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by Venkatesh Sridhar http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-6364 Venkatesh Sridhar Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:54:05 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-6364 Please Note that my post is not a dig at IITians but primarily at IITs as an institution. Please Note that my post is not a dig at IITians but primarily at IITs as an institution.

]]> Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by Dipanjan http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-6144 Dipanjan Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:09:51 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-6144 Well, I have a slightly different opinion about this issue you've raised, and by far the nail hasn't dug deep enough into the coffin. Firstly, de-subsidising IIT education is a very bad idea, considering that the step was taken for the thousands of poor, backward and down-trodden students who have the brilliance and deserve to uplift themselves and their families given an opportunity to quality education and training. The best case is of Alok in Chetan Bhagat's famous novel "5-point someone", and besides hundreds of such students are awarded scholarships by the IIT's themselves to further reduce their expenses. The existence of IIT's themselves gives them a much required hope and a guarantee to a secure future; and if there's a need for something it is to build more such institutes which can give those millions of under-facilitated students to come up and use their talents, and I'm not talking of more IIT's or engineering colleges, let there be more science, arts and commerce colleges which can maintain high-standards and ensure quality. And to think that denying IIT's the elitism they deserve and deliberately reducing them to other private colleges' levels will help the nation in any way is just childish....come on!! we live in a globalized country now, those IIT alumni you accuse of brain drain will fly off to USA and UK universities after their higher secondary itself. Thats hardly going to help the nation. If we are concerned about brain drain and all that stuff, we must understand that its simple economics of demand and supply and prices. Its wrong to expect all of them to build opportunities here rather than use an already existing one somewhere else...and though we need more people like Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani etc. who choose to do so, we must understand that the underlying problem causing brain drain, low research outputs are much more basic and they make vicious circle of many more challenges. But one point, which I do agree upon is the absence of any substantial research from these elite institutes, but then again IIT's have always been engineering institutes catering to the industry, and this I do agree should be reformed, but the methods mentioned are not at all helpful. Well, I have a slightly different opinion about this issue you’ve raised, and by far the nail hasn’t dug deep enough into the coffin.
Firstly, de-subsidising IIT education is a very bad idea, considering that the step was taken for the thousands of poor, backward and down-trodden students who have the brilliance and deserve to uplift themselves and their families given an opportunity to quality education and training. The best case is of Alok in Chetan Bhagat’s famous novel “5-point someone”, and besides hundreds of such students are awarded scholarships by the IIT’s themselves to further reduce their expenses.
The existence of IIT’s themselves gives them a much required hope and a guarantee to a secure future; and if there’s a need for something it is to build more such institutes which can give those millions of under-facilitated students to come up and use their talents, and I’m not talking of more IIT’s or engineering colleges, let there be more science, arts and commerce colleges which can maintain high-standards and ensure quality.
And to think that denying IIT’s the elitism they deserve and deliberately reducing them to other private colleges’ levels will help the nation in any way is just childish….come on!! we live in a globalized country now, those IIT alumni you accuse of brain drain will fly off to USA and UK universities after their higher secondary itself. Thats hardly going to help the nation.
If we are concerned about brain drain and all that stuff, we must understand that its simple economics of demand and supply and prices. Its wrong to expect all of them to build opportunities here rather than use an already existing one somewhere else…and though we need more people like Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani etc. who choose to do so, we must understand that the underlying problem causing brain drain, low research outputs are much more basic and they make vicious circle of many more challenges.
But one point, which I do agree upon is the absence of any substantial research from these elite institutes, but then again IIT’s have always been engineering institutes catering to the industry, and this I do agree should be reformed, but the methods mentioned are not at all helpful.

]]> Comment on The great bra color Facebook Status update by swathi http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/the-great-bra-color-fb-update/comment-page-1/#comment-5918 swathi Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:08:19 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=202#comment-5918 1. lol 2. "A friend even told me to stop thinking with my dick, I wondered WTF was she thinking with." lol lol 1. lol

2. “A friend even told me to stop thinking with my dick, I wondered WTF was she thinking with.” lol lol

]]> Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by GOPAL http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5907 GOPAL Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:05:46 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-5907 thIS blog was like hittin nail in the head, it should come as headlines in National Newspapers, so that people ignorant of IIT's zero-achievement & having a big pic abt it would come to know the reality, & the hype it created in India, esp for a school goin child like me yrs back wouldn,t have happened. Also i wouldn't have felt very bad in not clearing the IIT Mains, after all, i m fighting with a 5 lakh population......& the research over there is poor. IIT's hold their superiority only in conducting entrance examinations ONLY. Tha fact ppl write IIT entrance at +2 is for fat salary packages & passport for US........1.NOT FOR CONTINUING RESEARCH or 2. contributing to the country, .... at least we can leave the latter(2.), but the former(1.) is most impt. IT'S VERY IMPT. THAT EVERY CHILD IN INDIA(esp +2 KIDS) STUDY THIS ARTICLE & GET A BIGGER PIC, instead of having a closed mind & worrying for not makin to the IITs thIS blog was like hittin nail in the head, it should come as headlines in National Newspapers, so that people ignorant of IIT’s zero-achievement & having a big pic abt it would come to know the reality, & the hype it created in India, esp for a school goin child like me yrs back wouldn,t have happened. Also i wouldn’t have felt very bad in not clearing the IIT Mains, after all, i m fighting with a 5 lakh population……& the research over there is poor. IIT’s hold their superiority only in conducting entrance examinations ONLY.
Tha fact ppl write IIT entrance at +2 is for fat salary packages & passport for US……..1.NOT FOR CONTINUING RESEARCH or 2. contributing to the country, …. at least we can leave the latter(2.), but the former(1.) is most impt.

IT’S VERY IMPT. THAT EVERY CHILD IN INDIA(esp +2 KIDS) STUDY THIS ARTICLE & GET A BIGGER PIC, instead of having a closed mind & worrying for not makin to the IITs

]]> Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by aravindsr (Aravind S Raamkumar) http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5910 aravindsr (Aravind S Raamkumar) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:30:39 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-5910 Interesting blog on IITs ~ http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/ Interesting blog on IITs ~ http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/

]]> Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by liberalcynic http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5263 liberalcynic Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:01:00 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-5263 Could not have put it better myself, and I thought I was passionate on this topic! Indian taxpayers have the right to question the accountability (or lack thereof) of the subsidization of IIT education. I feel that instead of causing reform in IIT, we should cut off the funding, and make it a lot easier to open and run private colleges in India. In Bombay (middle finger to Raj Thackeray!), there are so many private colleges, but they are owned by plutocrats for who else can subvert the rules, appease the mafia, and set up a university? Ideally, Indian government should not be involved in baccalaureate education at all except for the bare minimum. Let private colleges open easily, and they will do some great stuff. Any organization, when large enough, becomes sluggish. The government is the best example of that. India should concentrate on making many good engineers, instead of a handful of brilliant ones. Could not have put it better myself, and I thought I was passionate on this topic! Indian taxpayers have the right to question the accountability (or lack thereof) of the subsidization of IIT education. I feel that instead of causing reform in IIT, we should cut off the funding, and make it a lot easier to open and run private colleges in India. In Bombay (middle finger to Raj Thackeray!), there are so many private colleges, but they are owned by plutocrats for who else can subvert the rules, appease the mafia, and set up a university?
Ideally, Indian government should not be involved in baccalaureate education at all except for the bare minimum. Let private colleges open easily, and they will do some great stuff. Any organization, when large enough, becomes sluggish. The government is the best example of that. India should concentrate on making many good engineers, instead of a handful of brilliant ones.

]]> Comment on IITs: What have you done for India? by pavi http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/iits-what-have-you-done-for-india/comment-page-1/#comment-5250 pavi Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:32:08 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=174#comment-5250 You are absolutely right... I in fact bumped into your article after a google search titled, "why so little research is done in india". At least there is 'some' research done in the engineering fields. I study the social sciences and it is very sad that almost 'NO' research is done in my field of work. When in fact, social sciences research should be the first step to solve all our social and economic problems. Very sad indeed :( Especially when we have an economist for a prime minister :( I should probably do a research project on why so little research is done in India! You are absolutely right… I in fact bumped into your article after a google search titled, “why so little research is done in india”. At least there is ’some’ research done in the engineering fields. I study the social sciences and it is very sad that almost ‘NO’ research is done in my field of work. When in fact, social sciences research should be the first step to solve all our social and economic problems. Very sad indeed :( Especially when we have an economist for a prime minister :( I should probably do a research project on why so little research is done in India!

]]> Comment on How to recover your Yahoo password? by Venkatesh Sridhar http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/how-to-recover-your-yahoo-password/comment-page-1/#comment-5124 Venkatesh Sridhar Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:21:38 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=111#comment-5124 @Towe: Yes you can definitely call the help desk and they will help you out. Good luck, let me know how it went. @Towe: Yes you can definitely call the help desk and they will help you out. Good luck, let me know how it went.

]]> Comment on How to recover your Yahoo password? by towe http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/how-to-recover-your-yahoo-password/comment-page-1/#comment-5123 towe Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:40 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=111#comment-5123 [quote comment=""]please help me. my ex has changed my yahoo password and the secret answer to recover the account,. where and how do i go from here? Please i need all manners of help i can get. if i call the help desk what will they tell me? Please I need your help.[/quote]

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]]> Comment on How to recover your Yahoo password? by towe http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/how-to-recover-your-yahoo-password/comment-page-1/#comment-5122 towe Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:54 +0000 http://www.venkateshsridhar.com/?p=111#comment-5122 please help me. my ex has changed my yahoo password and the secret answer to recover the account,. where and how do i go from here? Please i need all manners of help i can get. if i call the help desk what will they tell me? Please I need your help. please help me. my ex has changed my yahoo password and the secret answer to recover the account,. where and how do i go from here? Please i need all manners of help i can get. if i call the help desk what will they tell me?

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