IIT criteria

India has always been a country of diversities, at its nature,people languages and even at stages and levels. And so is the education and its system. Along all the dimensions and edges it prospers and shines even with some of its 'Dark spots'. Education system too is diversified. There exists different boards, each one unique in syllabus, marking scheme and mindsets of teachers and students. So limiting its diversity to 80% marking criteria will only hinder and stop excellent and deserving minds from entering IIT. In some boards like CBSE marking and syllabus is 'Marking friendly', while in others syllabus and teachers are 'failing friendly' and in such condition you can never expect result to be 'criteria friendly'. Moreover the students studying far away in unimaginable condition may never think of IIT. Do all poor students studying in slums score 80%? no, But their dreams lies on IIT. If Mr. Kapil sibbal want to take away the right to dream, then he surely can Impose this. IIT dream works like catalyst for some students and if you want to poison out then you can. In such a diverse education system of our country there are innumerable students who are better in intelligence and capabilities from those who score higher. If such a criteria is fixed many deserving and capable students will not be eligible fot IIT, which will be a National loss. such a step reminds me of a Poem out there in my English book (class XII, flamingo) 'An elementary school in slum' "Unless the governor, inspector ,visitor this map becomes their window and these windows that shut upon their lives like catacombs Break O Break open till they break the town show the children to green fields and make their world run azure on the gold sand, and let their tongue run naked into books, the white and green leaves open history whose language is the sun." -Tariq abdullah

Gandhi jyanti's lesson: gandhi's talisman

gandhi jyanti comes every year we celebrate, we remember and on the next day we forgets what it reminds us. What is the lesson life of mahatma gandhi gives us..for a day we don't even bother to think that great man who inspired a lot of men in the history can give us, what his thought are...we don't realize its value.why?...why for a day only some of us tries to be good....and again on the very next day again fall in our vicious circles? would gandhi be happy with us in the skies in the heaven?... why don't we realize his personality? why some of our men and officers are corrupted?.. why goodness has shrinked to such a low extent? at least this day is the time of self introspection. Let us pledge to be good and on this day we must let a thousand gandhi spirits take birth in ourselves. Happy gandhi jyanti. Tariq Abdullah