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Education in India and the end products

Dear Readers This blog is about all of you who have spent a minimum of 15-20 years of your primitive stage in life. The screen-test which you all had to pass to succeed in life. Let me tell you some short stories. On 20th January, Pratyusha Vedantam, a IIT Madras student goes missing. She wrote in a note "on her leanings toward the sainthood, she has embarked upon the journey towards Himalayas". She had mentioned developing a strange detachment from the curriculum and thus went ahead to search the purpose of her life.A few months before that, a PhD student from Hyderabad Central University committed suicide. He wrote in a note "No one to blame for his suicide". He mentioned failure in academics and peer pressure in the suicide note. Prior to this incidence, roughly 500 or more beggars were found in Bangalore having completed MSc and indulged in begging in a survey conducted by an NGO. The survey revealed, by begging they were getting more money than doing th...