[catchmrbharath]

You should not be judging them with very little exposure to them. There is a lot of innovation at IIT's which you just haven't come across. Stanford, MIT have a lots of funds at their disposal and they can innovate maybe much faster. Thats the only difference.

Some projects might not be that great as some startups aren't that great. Again, you should not be judging looking at a single project.

And IITians love to find the answer to their questions themselves :)

[rushabh]

Somehow I can't bring myself to have sympathy for a community that is heavily funded by the tax payers of a relatively poor country like India to further its own progress, and use the opportunity as a ticket to a migrate to rich countries for their own personal gain. That is the real reason why there is so little innovation at IIT.

I know people will cite remittances, but those are pittance compared to getting your hands dirty and building assets for your own society.

[nothacker]

Another more fatalistic way of looking at it is that if IIT is the top of the game in the area, then even if their startup projects suck, that is the best that could be done in the area, and may be good enough to sell to the public. Now you could argue that this is not the case, because someone from S.F. in the U.S. could have a SAAS app that Indians use instead, but will that app be in Hindi? I think there is opportunity and applaud the OP's efforts.