Tag Archives: Chetan Bhagat
Operation Prayer: What We should Hope for in 2012
As you are busy putting New Year resolutions into action, dear readers do undertake “Operation Prayer”. Here’s a list I prepared, feel free to make your own additions and subtractions,… Read more
Revolution 2020: A Promising Title, but Does the Revolution Take Place?
Chetan Bhagat’s fifth novel Revolution 2020 was released amid much hype and anticipation from every echelon of readers — from the bookworms to Internet addicts, who would otherwise never open… Read more
IIT Quality Poorer? Yes, it’s the Numbers, Stupid!
The good thing about not knowing Shakespeare, Shelley et al is the liberty you can take with the language, and without much scruple. Take, for instance, the proverb ‘too many… Read more
Mr Murthy, Don’t Blame IIT System, Blame our Govt & Domestic Industry
I still remember the first day when I arrived at the Computer Science department in IIT-Kharagpur for my first class of the session as early as 7.15 in the morning…. Read more
IIT Quality Debate: System of Formula Students and British-era Clerks
Consider a horse-drawn cart. As the horse starts pulling the cart, it exerts a force on the cart. According to Newton’s third law of motion which states ‘every action has… Read more
The IIT Quality Debate and Why I Find Chetan Bhagat Extremely Irritating
The quality of students entering Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has deteriorated over the years due to the coaching classes that prepare engineering aspirants, said N.R. Narayana Murthy a few days ago. I… Read more
The IIT Quality Debate and a Few Questions for Mr Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat said Infosys is a body shop, Narayana Murthy said IIT products are like Chetan Bhagat i.e. mediocre. Thus began a national debate, so fierce that it caused ache… Read more
The IIT Quality Debate and a Few Questions from an Ex-IITian
Thanks to honorable Union minister Jairam Ramesh for his outburst on the quality of the faculty at IITs a few months back. Being an IIT alumnus himself, he didn’t say… Read more
I Don’t Support Anyone Against Corruption. I Just Don’t Support Corruption
Govt can’t end graft but arrests Anna Hazare, ran the teaser headline in the emailer from a top news magazine on Tuesday. One can’t help but smile at the irony of… Read more
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