Eighty-year-old Dr R Mahadevan, from the first batch of
IIT-Madras was interviewed by Indian Express in September 2023. Read it here.
This is a wonderful interview. I did not know so much about IITM but a part of this statement what saddened me:
"We didn’t have any placement cells in 1964. We just concentrated on our studies and once we graduated, we started applying for jobs. However, most batchmates went abroad for higher studies. I worked at the Hindustan Steel in Rourkela and then pursued MTech from IIT Kharagpur,”
..."most batchmates went abroad for higher studies"....and probably never returned....
shocking...so from first batch it started...and then it was happening as- he himself informs- the course was shortened to complete in Jan 1964 as country needed engineers after China war....
what
kind of kids were they, when India needed them most....?
When did elites bury
nationalism after 1947? Was it 'Jagte Raho', 1956 syndrome? Indeed things
had fallen apart in India from 47 to 64 and middle-class was utterly
cynical and hopeless?
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