That sounds about right. I am fortunate to have my interests and sense of beauty mostly in alignment with STEM. But the part that I want to emphasize on, is th

That sounds about right. I am fortunate to have my interests and sense of beauty mostly in alignment with STEM. But the part that I want to emphasize on, is the pseudo-STEM that we as a nation promote. This is a battle that G.H. Hardy seems to have fought before. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hardy_Tripos.html http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hardy_Tripos.... Particularly, the description of the Tripos as a "game", full of imaginative tricks and stunts that are merely a figment of human imagination is very much in resonance with the exam we have in India today. In my experience, the "distant second choice" is not a first choice, even for the STEM loving community :(. It benefits no one other than the tutors who earn large bucks by mastering this game, which in reality, is far from the game of nature, that engineers and scientists IMO are supposed to play!