1)Whatever u say about the introductions, that is done by a tiny population of the college. if however that was done by EVERYONE, it wouldn’t have been wrong – if u have it, then so be it. Too bad u didn’t try or could not get in.

2) If people talk about tv serials, eating places, hostels from their IITs, that is their identity and brings back awesome memories. Too bad u don’t have any in your life and go this way, u shall have none!

My guess is you probably met a loser (like urself) from some IIT, somewhere… hence all this crap. If however, you were doing this to get ppl on ur blog, hats off!! are u an IITian?

I only wish you wrote it better, got your facts straighter (IITs were meant to provide technologists primarily, not poets or scientists – though they are now trying to expand their domain – and we should wish them success). It reads like poison, or maybe I just have a sweet tooth.

-Just Another Brick in the Wall

Britishers owe Kohi-Noor back to Hyderabad…with an appology of stealing it and many other things from Hindostan. Sardar was never liked by Nehru and Nizam’s wealth should not have been swallowed by government/ auctioneers…One more thing…I wish Nizams would have married in Hyderabad rather and not ventured for Australian desserts and so on…
Alam Khan

I see, you have overexposed iitians.. oops you shouldn’t have done that..
let them live in their world and you live in yours..

The problem with you is jealousy.. its simple….

” Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius”

Well c’mmon accept it.. be a man…

well u seem to have researched too much on iitians.. y don’t you try to get it published.. iitians are really hot stuff in the market( Five point someone and your this immensely popular blog proves it.. ). You seem to be actually craving for attention.. which they easily get

So, it seems that you have mentioned the traits of your college inmates.. because i have met more iitians than you would ever know in your life.. and they seem to be distant relatives of the ones described by you….

well an honest question… the following situations can lead to this post :

1. you were fired from office because of an IITian
2. Your boss is an IITian
3. your girlfriend dumped you for an IITian

And what I have observed during my course at xyz college is that IITian are really really humble(believe me,yes they are)…..they are humble when you compare them to these so called “next-to-IITs” instis like Pilani,DCE etc……man these “next-to-iits” guys are so damn boastful too…..they cant stop bragging about there colleges and how they score above every iitian born…and how there college has changed the world….and how they are smarter than us(oops!! )…..

Secondly there had been a lot of discussion about only on of the “two-kinds -of people” categorized by jaded:lets talk about non-IITians:-

And man they are so pathetic…especially guys/gals from these “big-cities” like delhi……they are never tired highlighting the fact that they are 10000x cooler than IITians just coz they(the big city guys) dont “study”,smoke and drink and fool around with chicks….. and that IITians are an inferior breed coz they “study”…and that they are modern….and “geeks@iit” are assholes….everyone feels like slapping them for such false air…..in fact they are ignorant assholes….didnt do even a bit for the country(half of them even dont know abt there alumni who did great…or even the full form of DRDO and ISRO )

I saw some similar posts on rediff about the contribution of IITians to the country….and i have only one thing to say….god you people are so ignorant….just go and see all those big companies in India…you will definitely find an IITian or two there at the helm…..every second or so new “worth noticing” startup is by IITians…..even the IT revolution has seen a big role of IITians in it

So in the end i have one thing to say….

the post was awesome and hillarious(i like you sense of humour jaded,and i doubt that you are also from one of the IITs)….but plz dont question our contribution to the country

2. Loads of IITians are real fun to talk to and hang out with, the kind you refer to does exist but again it’s very few of them. Why do you generalize?

3.Ragging has been eradicated absolutely. If anyone’s telling you that he was ragged he must be joking or pulling your leg. The latter is very probable given how easily you believe things and jump to shitty conclusions.

4.IIT moments replacing family pics is one of the lamest things I’ve heard about IITians, as though you’ve really visited hundreds of IITians’ houses and noticed this. Really lame. And again, if an IItian chooses to photograph IIT moments that have gone by forever rather than photographs of family members whom he meets everyday and will continue to do so, why should he be criticized? I have pictures of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who in my room but no pictures of family? Are you suggesting that I care more for these bands than for my family and friends?

5. Most IITians dont bother about AIR’s after the first week of IIT. Even after that the only AIR talk that goes on, happens extremely rarely and is limited to harmless stuff like ‘X is in mensa you know, its shocking how his AIR was so fucked up….bad luck I guess’ and totally non-egoistic stuff like that…..you dont really come across people saying ‘Kneel before me because my AIR was better than yours!’. Be honest and tell me how many people have you encountered who’ve told you what their AIR was thirty years before?

6.Most people graduating from IIT have spent four or five years living in the place with their friends and it is natural that they wouldn’t want to put it all behind and move on, forgetting about the past. Why the fuck should a pass out be criticized so much for calling himself an IITian instead of an ex-IITian. And for that matter, I haven’t come across a single passout claiming to be an IITian, nor have I ever heard the phrase ‘Once an IITian, always an IITian’ but I don’t see what’s wrong with that.

7. And who ever told you that IITian is defined as ‘a person who is still in the process of academic activity in order to graduate’??? Just because someone is always an IITian doesnt mean he doesnt graduate. Lame shit dude, if for instance someone leaves India to work elsewhere and becomes a citizen of another country it doesn’t mean he ceases to be an Indian. At least if I meet an NRI in Germany, I wont call him German for sure! Same way an IITian will remain an IITian after graduating. And why the fuck did you have to dedicate an entire paragraph to this?

8.Have you even met an IITian? How many?

9. IIT is an institute of Technology, if someone is there from an unknown little town where English schools were non existant, its unfair to ridicule his spellings. The guy is there because he knows his physics, chemistry and mathematics. There aint an english paper, why should there be? There’s TOEFL for those who care. And there are loads of explanations to the spelling mistake on that banner, tonnes of them, it’s impossible that someone thinks ‘through’ is spelled with a ‘v’!

And for you information, a few years back someone, Bush or some senator or someone else made a statement which amounted to ‘US soldiers in Iraq are mostly high school drop outs’. Some US soldiers in Iraq were then photographed with a huge banner saying ‘Plaes get us owt off hear’ or again, something of that order, basically a message with shitloads of spelling mistakes. Its called sarcasm.

10. The IIT campus includes houses for the profs, the canteen workers,the peons etc etc. The wife of a prof. need not be from IIT and so I don’t see why she won’t do a Pooja and why she won’t tend to throw offerings in the lake and why such a sign should not be put. In India putting Pooja offerings in a lake or pond or the sea is a common practise and many people from the neighbouring buildings outside the IIT campus come in and dump stuff like that in the lake. Yes, anyone is allowed to enter the campus.

11. Being able to solve answers in a question paper and having the logic to reason out that God doesn’t exist and prayers are dumb are not the same thing and they are not complementary. Basically, one can be brilliant in acads and still have some irrational beliefs.

12. I’m assuming that the mine workers during the British rule was a lame poetic device of your own limited imagination’s attempt to sound funny. If you were serious then do check out the dates of Raj and the first IIT.

All statements worthy of negation have been dealt with. I would LOVE to have a proper debate with you, point wise, I like to debate.
So basically your article gives me the impression that you haven’t met too many IITians, maybe not a single one. And if you have, then you have some irrational phobia/hatred for them and so you thought it would be a good idea to defame them, to magnify already circulating myths. One of the scenarios that comes to my mind is this: That you have a sibling or a cousin who got into IIT and you didn’t despite several attempts and now your whole family thinks you’re a bloody loser and showers your sibling/cousin with love, affection and respect. Maybe the whole world thinks of you as a loser when compared to the sibling/cousin and hence the resentment? We both know in fact, I’m sure you do, that there is no logical ground for the conclusions you have drawn in your article and thus I beseech you to email me your reasons for this deed. ringo.satyarr@gmail.com

thanks,
satya

PS: I agree with you about the attitude of Indians towards IIT and IITians.