India’s Elite Tech Schools Are a Golden Ticket with a Dark Side

This is a poorly written article with a handful of anecdotes. It also doesn’t report everything truthfully. For example, the lawsuit against the Cisco engineers has been dismissed. The lawsuits against Cisco remains. Caste discrimination is a low hanging fruit for litigants similar to racial discrimination. It automatically labels a person with a higher caste a castist.

ugh. just ugh! what a biased article!

The IITs are hard to get into and the sad fact is that no matter how high they raise their standards, there will be more than enough candidates who exceed those standards. In what is fairly close to a purely meritocratic exam, casetism, sexism, x-ism are just labels some people use to rationalize why they did not make it when competing with people who are brilliant and driven.

These institutions have educated some of the finest minds in the country, and their alumni have gone on to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, raising people of all castes out of poverty.