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by mayanksinghal 5153 days ago
Not sure if you are trolling or you really believe that IITs should be producing Nobel laureates. Nobel prizes are given for: Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics and Medicine, not engineering. IITs are engineering institutes - famed largely for their Undergraduate program. IISc has a much better core sciences program than any IIT.
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sundae79 5153 days ago
Not saying it should produce nobel laureates. All this talk about as if IIT is the only place in India, when the real work and research is done by graduates of other universities. And nice cop out saying engineering is not science.
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mayanksinghal 5153 days ago
> the real work and research is done by graduates of other universities 9 not 10 Indians have been honored by Nobel Price, out of which only 4 are for sciences. Out of these 4 only CV Raman did his research work in India and that too before IITs were even conceived[1]. So no, if Nobel prices are the criteria for your judgement, you are wrong. And I am offended, you are insulting my work and that of my peers and professors. May be you have done groundbreaking research in your life or have seen that happening in other institutes, it is most definitely true. I do not wish to say that IITs are the only institutes in India. If you check my last comment you will notice that I have explicitly mentioned that IISc has a better Core Sciences curriculum.

If you believe that we do not do real work and research, either back your claim or keep your prejudice to yourself. IITs are involved in research work[2] and we do not do fictional/worthless work. I have no idea what qualifies as real research work for you, but I am sure you will find a lot of decent research work happening in IITs if you are willing to shed your prejudice.

[And I do not believe that this is the right place to discuss this. We can discuss it here if you wish to continue, you can leave a comment on my profile: https://plus.google.com/112310425433589490684/posts]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_of_India [2]: List of papers by just IITB Academic Community: http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/DisplayResearchPaper...

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