Thanks a lot for your comments, and I see where you're coming from. In retrospect, there may be a slight bias, and I'll be sure to keep that in mind when I write my next article.

My aim was not to glorify engineering in India; very far from it, actually. The aim of the article was to provide a really shallow look into the history of engineering culture in India. There's a lot more that I really haven't even talked about - how politicians set-up engineering schools since that was a major way to pick-pocket the middle class, the (alleged) abundance of black money in many "premier" institutes of engineering, and in general, the way engineering in India is taught is plain wrong.

I graduated in 2010 from an "NIT", and I am fully aware of how bad the engineering system in India is.