Why is it that every person of Indian origin who won a Nobel in the sciences after independence is not an Indian citizen any more? Hargobind Khurana won the prize for Medicine in 1968, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar for Physics in 1983 and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for Chemistry in 2009. All of them flowered not because they were Indians per se but because they left India far behind.
In fact, Ramakrishnan was downright rude when many Indians called to congratulate him in 2009. He said: “We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.” He also complained about “all sorts of people” writing to him and “clogging up my email box. It takes me an hour or two just to remove these mails". While his immediate reaction may seem churlish to us, underlying it is the real issue: the “Indian” successes abroad have little to do with the fact that they are Indians. They succeed because they abandoned India.
We need to ask ourselves: why does our system kill future heroes, while the US helps raise Indians to iconic levels?
Hence the point:
Our system is designed to keep people out, not in. The true value of an IIT or IIM is not the intellectual capital they produce, but their filtering expertise, which keeps all but the super- listers out of these institutions. When the people entering the institution are the best among the best, they will shine no matter what the quality of faculty or the curriculum is.
Exclusion and not inclusion, unfortunately, is our creed.
Our system is designed to keep people out, not in. The true value of an IIT or IIM is not the intellectual capital they produce, but their filtering expertise, which keeps all but the super- listers out of these institutions. When the people entering the institution are the best among the best, they will shine no matter what the quality of faculty or the curriculum is.
Exclusion and not inclusion, unfortunately, is our creed.
The Bottom Line is this– Sunder Pichai and Satya Narayana Nadella are supreme examples of the reality of the Indian Market. If you have talent and need to succeed– India is not the place for you. The only thing that India can offer is an entry into the Corrupt World of Politics and a Chance to Get into the Everyday Rut of an Overpopulated, Highly Superstitious, Prehistorically Religious-minded, Backward Country where today even, something as silly as Porn and Beef are Banned when Serious Issues Like the Rape of Women and Corruption in Politics is absolutely Ignored.
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