Is there some dismay that the new CEO of Microsoft is not an IITianIJ
IITs mass produce excellence, but ‘lesser' institutions seem to chip in with brilliance. Mr Satya Nadella is one such product. What is remarkable is that in this era of relentless pursuit of individual careers and hopping on to disparate job contents, Mr Nadella has stuck with one company to persevere for 22 long years, to be a titan. Pedigreed IITians have only managed to, become big, maybe in larger numbers, on the wings of a generic brand value.
This brand has been finding greater acceptance on Wall Street or in IT start-ups and less in premiere engineering or scientific research institutions. In these six-plus decades of IITs, in an era of ever-exploding scientific ken, the branded alumni ought to contribute to cutting edge technologies and seminal scientific papers. We would then be not seeking vindications through the success of men of Indian origin elsewhere.