That's my point. The IIT-ian education was, and still is, subsidised to the nth degree! It is creating skills that prop up US technology and industry.
(Nothing wrong with that perhaps, except when it translates into scorn for things Indian.) As for Nehru's role in building these institutions, it cannot be denied, whatever may be our political biases. For instance: http://hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2003/stories/20030214007506500.htm PS: The arguments below are confused. It's the IITians (like Rajan) who got the subsidies from the "impoverished Indian masses" or whoever. The vision, or lack of it, is a wholly separate issue. Rajan Parrikar wrote: As usual, Frederick Noronha is wrong. I was subsidized by the Goan taxpayer (of which my family was a pool) and it had nothing to do with Jawahar's "vision." Two, FN has his brains (or whatever he has for them) up his you-know-what, for he does not realize that the very thing he praises Jawahar for ("vision") was actually no vision at all. Guys basically got a free ride at the expense of the impoverished Indian masses. "Vision" is very easy when you can get someone else to pay for it. This is the "vision" that FN praises. * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *