This article reinforces the current problem in the indian society. You need to have a brand label attached to you to get a decent job. First off, India has 16 I

This article reinforces the current problem in the indian society. You need to have a brand label attached to you to get a decent job. First off, India has 16 IIT institutions and they accept less than 10 thousand students each year. Also, the process of admission is based on an entrance test which is not perfect. More than half a million people write the entrance test and only less than 2% of them are given admission. So you can see how valuable the IIT label is to students (which the author isn't shy boasting). The people who get an admission are usually very smart and they go on to find decent enough jobs. But, the rest of the huge chunk of students are denied any good opportunity and many equally smart people who don't get into IIT have a hard time finding any decent job. IITs are way overrated in my honest opinion. Sure, they are good, but not by any means the only hope for a true innovative society in India. True innovation comes from the ground up and solving real life problems. Most of the people from IITs I've seen are very elitist and have no interest in at least working for Indian companies, let alone usher in a new era of hope and change.