As you rightly said, you can't take different stream courses in India, but that is where ingenuity shows. People step out of their academics and achieve profici

As you rightly said, you can't take different stream courses in India, but that is where ingenuity shows. People step out of their academics and achieve proficiency in one or more unrelated fields - and since it is not so easy - only the driven few do it - and what I meant is I see it happening more often among non-IIT candidates - and they invariably turn out good. IITians I believe get a (somewhat correct) sense of job security after course which probably makes them focus only on academics. I have worked with many interns from US (MIT and the like), India (IITs and non IITS) and have recruited many - but my best interns and recruits always came from less privileged backgrounds.