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Does it matter that it is in Bombay? I thought the prod/student body would be diverse due to to how the intake works. Nothing against Marathi, I feel like Telu
by praneshp 9y ago
Does it matter that it is in Bombay? I thought the prod/student body would be diverse due to to how the intake works.
Nothing against Marathi, I feel like Telugu, Tamil etc would also have equal chances of happening there.
- gumby 9y agoOh not really, I do agree that languages like Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and others are sort of “more deserving” in that they have more speakers than Marathi. I just don’t speak them and probably never will :-( . The “Bombayness” was only that Mumbai is in Maharashtra. There really are great folks from all over at that institution. My comment was NOT intended to make any implication about any community over another! I see someone downvoted my comment and might have understandably thought that that might have been my intention.
- praneshp 9y agoActually I was saying the total opposite of what you inferred. I thought that despite being in Mumbai, IIT-B would have a very diverse spread of folks due to the methods of intake(JEE/ all India recruitment of professors). That means Marathis might not be the language of choice, because it's highly likely that the researcher is Tamil/Telugu. Unlike someplace like, say, VJTI, that's likely to have a large Marathi population. (I didn't downvote btw.)