what i write below may raise nationalistic outrage among many of the readers but i only write the simple and bitter truth... so before the reader puts sweaty and angered fingers to keyboard and posts insults to me, do your best to read with patience.
@Joe Shearer ( though you had said somewhere that you prefer engaging only in military discussions but i would be glad of your opinion )
@levina @WAJsal
from the 60's to 1995, the indian youth would have been generally fascinated with a career in india's extremely capitalist banking sector, jobs within the nationalized banks and those not... we don't need to think twice about how indian banks and economic system have contributed to oppression, suicides on mass scale and as you will see below, contributed to keeping india from contributing technologically to humanity generally.
i don't know why the article says that india is
set to produce largest number of engineers... that has actually been the fact since 1995 at least, primarily with enlargement of the few indian software companies and especially so just before year 2000 with arrival of the "y2k" bug in the fearful imaginations of american capitalist corporate system.
below are screenshots from a study by "ernst and young" and "india semiconductor association" for the benefit of the indian ministry of info. tech. ( source -
http://deity.gov.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/dithindi/files/Semiconductor06April11_020511_0.pdf - it is a 17.5 mb file which may slow your computer )...
1. this is the supposed talent that comes out from india's engineering colleges every year...
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2. the fascination with gathering college degrees and degrees after degrees...
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3. and then comes the continual years of the job life...
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summary
so 200,000+ students flow out of indian college computer courses every year... well, at least this war true as of 2011 and then the 2007 crash of the american/western economics led to a slightly late crash in india's low-skill computer industry... by logic, those 200,000+ "computer science" students, two million if we count for ten years previous, that huge number of students by the time they finished their final year in college, should have designed and improved at least 5 different microprocessors, 5 different operating systems and three different radically new ways of computing... but they designed and invented nothing.
and what about the ones who got in jobs, staying on a developers and "team leads" and mangers for five years, eight years?? what did they achieve?? what about those who have been in the indian computer industry as technologists for 20 years, 30 years?? what did they contribute to humanity??
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sadly, most indians carry a coolie mentality where they do schooling in order to achieve high exams marks ( despite that being useless for all practical purposes ) in order to get into some crap but big-time engineering college like "srm university" or "lovely professional university" and that is order to ultimately get into crap "engineering" job, a life-time of wage-slavery and non-contribution to humanity... along the way, their mothers get them married which leads to children and then those children are put through the same much-beaten path of their parents/grandparents and the cycle of mediocrity continues... that has been so for the last four generations of india since 1947.
to create something, one must give time to ideas, to think over cups of tea, without having to worry about survival money... but when parents and the surrounding social culture essentially tells a youth "do job or die", the youth then gets into the grind of mediocrity... blame the parents for giving middle-class poverty to their children as inheritance... these parents and the school/college managements the parents take pressure from have only contributed to student suicides (
India is Suicide Capital: World Health Organisation (WHO) ) and nothing by way of useful contribution.
the result is this (
no invention from India in 60 years: n. r. narayana murthy ).
99 percent of the people in the software/services/engineering sector are the neo-rich whose parents were not so well-off... these neo-rich can be seen being wastrels in their useless software/engineering company offices in the week days and being wastrels during weekends in the alcohol-overflowing pubs of banglaore, poona, gurgaon, delhi, hyderabad, madras etc.
in the last two years, there has been hype about "startup companies" in india, centered around bangalore... but these companies are nonsense... 95 percent of them are about wrong things like online school/college exam preparation... some more are about developing cell phone apps which are not needed at all ( "emergency app for ladies' safety" - my friends, cell phones have helped no one ), some more are online shopping websites that could be developed in hyderabad or bangalore because some foreigners had already created the internet and the site development tools.
[ post to be developed further in further discussion ]
