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Mr Vajpayee, I feel betrayed: The Times of India
Delhi, Dec 04: Dear Mr Vajpayee, It pains me as an IITian. Perhaps, it also pains every upright Indian who didn`t get an opportunity to study and pass out from an IIT. A sense of betrayal troubles me almost two decades after passing out - for having stay ed on in India.
Delhi, Dec 04: Dear Mr Vajpayee,
It pains me as an IITian. Perhaps, it also pains every upright Indian who didn't get an opportunity to study and pass out from an IIT. A sense of betrayal troubles me almost two decades after passing out - for having stay ed on in India.
The killing of Satendra Dubey the other day, is not just any murder. Not the blood that gets spilled in Bihar every other day. I don't say IITians have blue blood. They are as much down-to-earth Indians as Satendra proved to be in his life and career. But the willpower and the belief with which I managed to overcome the lure of the West feels let down. I can feel how Satendra might have felt in staying back home and deciding to build a new India - right under your guidance and vision.
This is no patriotism. Just a belief to stand up and do things differently. And that too in our own backyard, which needs the very brains that IITs cultivate. For a better India. Against the tide of brain drain and peer pressure which constantly pulls westwards. Should IITians go abroad for a better future?
Isn't this what you always wanted? Didn't you try convincing IITians over the years to stay back in India and make a difference? When someone tried, where were you? May be busy deciding on poll tickets, may be selling dreams to some villagers, or just may be wiping and hiding the rot that is all around us.
I have suddenly realised I am getting soft. I have been shaken up by this insensitivity of yours and of the whole government's. The professional in me has revolted - I was perhaps more realistic and hard-nosed at 21, when I believed that trying to do anything for the government is a waste of one's life.
The killing of Satendra Dubey the other day, is not just any murder. Not the blood that gets spilled in Bihar every other day. I don't say IITians have blue blood. They are as much down-to-earth Indians as Satendra proved to be in his life and career. But the willpower and the belief with which I managed to overcome the lure of the West feels let down. I can feel how Satendra might have felt in staying back home and deciding to build a new India - right under your guidance and vision.
This is no patriotism. Just a belief to stand up and do things differently. And that too in our own backyard, which needs the very brains that IITs cultivate. For a better India. Against the tide of brain drain and peer pressure which constantly pulls westwards. Should IITians go abroad for a better future?
Isn't this what you always wanted? Didn't you try convincing IITians over the years to stay back in India and make a difference? When someone tried, where were you? May be busy deciding on poll tickets, may be selling dreams to some villagers, or just may be wiping and hiding the rot that is all around us.
I have suddenly realised I am getting soft. I have been shaken up by this insensitivity of yours and of the whole government's. The professional in me has revolted - I was perhaps more realistic and hard-nosed at 21, when I believed that trying to do anything for the government is a waste of one's life.