tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post7751906526626288656..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: Pan-IIT's disgraceful 'program for spouses'Abihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-46081902947299396292008-10-07T10:31:00.000+05:302008-10-07T10:31:00.000+05:30Just got a reply from one of the organizers. This ...Just got a reply from one of the organizers. This is what the person had to say <BR/>"<I>This particular track is shaped by 3 women (an alumna and wives of 2 active alumni). I am sure they have quite a few in the spouses subcomittee who intereact and decide . I am not part of the decision making process but aware of what is going on and do not interfere.</I>"<BR/><BR/>--SidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-60638798615394397652008-09-30T16:06:00.000+05:302008-09-30T16:06:00.000+05:30why do all active bloggers like to write posts onl...why do all active bloggers like to write posts only criticizing, condemning things around them? Is good blogging all about using WTF and UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLES kind..!! ??<BR/><BR/>why do all bloggers think they are the most intelligent that ever existed on earth..?Pravesh Biyanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00441373151176466707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-54513623071842895562008-09-29T17:15:00.000+05:302008-09-29T17:15:00.000+05:30It's sexist and patronising, in an old-fashioned u...It's sexist and patronising, in an old-fashioned unconscious way, but probably exactly reflects the mind-set of a section of Indians (middle-aged, maybe NRI's who left India in the 70's and 80's?) Regardless, if any IITans think their population's cross-section is different/more progressive than another college's, now or in the past, that's probably just flattering self-delusion. Why should they be different - because they passed the JEE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-69296151299124772622008-09-29T15:00:00.000+05:302008-09-29T15:00:00.000+05:30unfuckingbelievable! Why aren't the guys getting t...unfuckingbelievable! Why aren't the guys getting to meet Shilpa Shetty ;) ?<BR/><BR/>/sarcasm<BR/><BR/>Seriously, this is amazingly sexist and condescending.Animeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08412663541603155070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-87182204273582821992008-09-29T03:09:00.000+05:302008-09-29T03:09:00.000+05:30what happend to my comment? Hmmm... The most chari...what happend to my comment? <BR/><BR/>Hmmm... <BR/><BR/>The most charitable thing to say is it is nice to have options.madraskaarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09950814593117445934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-35769464959709145722008-09-28T14:39:00.000+05:302008-09-28T14:39:00.000+05:30After much hand-wringing by indignant intellectual...After much hand-wringing by indignant intellectuals, "Anonymous IIT-alumnus" finally gets it. Education to the Indian middle class is largely a job ticket carried in a wallet, or a designer shirt flaunted at a party. Education is acquired and owned, it does not permeate and transform people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-35370385508197211382008-09-28T10:34:00.000+05:302008-09-28T10:34:00.000+05:30Hey guys and gals,Why are you all so surprised? I...Hey guys and gals,<BR/><BR/>Why are you all so surprised? If IIT-ness is majoritarian, upper-casteist, elitist, selfish, ultra-capitalist, why not add sexist to this? Has IIT-ness ever guaranteed any motion towards a balanced, civilized life, or towards a total dog-eat-dogness?<BR/><BR/>Anonymous IIT-alumnusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-25777424710625308372008-09-28T05:33:00.000+05:302008-09-28T05:33:00.000+05:30Looks like they also have an IIT Idol contest!! An...Looks like they also have an IIT Idol contest!! And does that go on in parallel to the business networking session?mekiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13431427960816496835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-70130302459954871652008-09-28T00:13:00.000+05:302008-09-28T00:13:00.000+05:30Truly disgusting. I was trying to play devil's adv...Truly disgusting. <BR/><BR/>I was trying to play devil's advocate by trying to modify the text of their web page (in my mind only, of course) to maximize ratio of non-disgusting-ness to the amount of change needed but I failed to obtain any non-trivial solution. <BR/><BR/>Also as a matter of principle one should separate the condemnation of blatant show of sexism (spouses = women) from an attempt to define Indian beliefs and practices (astro-moron-logy, palm-moron-istry and such). Sexism doesn't mean being anti-science and vice-versa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-82125378385777908802008-09-27T18:58:00.000+05:302008-09-27T18:58:00.000+05:30It is disgraceful to say the least. But then I thi...It is disgraceful to say the least. <BR/>But then I think a large majority of the 'alumni group' might be more interested in the Shilpa shetty session. Innovation? It begins with the JEE exam clearing and then stops right after you get settled into that first job and get comfortably middle aged.Vidya Jayaramanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11878238708389655574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-36525783634506545672008-09-27T17:58:00.000+05:302008-09-27T17:58:00.000+05:30Sadly this is all very reflective of general attit...Sadly this is all very reflective of general attitudes on the campus. The astrology part however makes me think that it was most probably an isolated bunch of morons. <BR/><BR/>People there really do believe that more women aren't there because they don't have brains. In the american universities at least they recognise it as a problem but I don't think IIT does.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-86993503481140903832008-09-27T15:16:00.000+05:302008-09-27T15:16:00.000+05:30Luddo: Now that you are appropriately saddened, wh...Luddo: Now that you are appropriately saddened, what are you doing about this? I mean I love ranting and all but you seem to be actually concerned. So. <BR/><BR/>For instance. Have you rushed off emails to all your fellow alumni and current students? When are you getting people together to spam the Inboxes of these PanIIT morons? Has someone sent an email to our country's foremost feminist and Nobel Laureate (who I believe is attending this) informing him what lies in store for Dr Rothschild?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974629715070715564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-55731588360756017922008-09-27T10:00:00.000+05:302008-09-27T10:00:00.000+05:30Do you think there is a miniscule chance that it's...Do you think there is a miniscule chance that it's all a gag? To find out if someone is really paying attention to the website? How else to explain it? <BR/><BR/>I can't decide whether the <I>sampoorna naari</I> bit is more galling or the Mystic Trail. Keep switching between the do. <BR/><BR/>Emma has done a much more analytical job of tearing the thing apart. And Veena's comment is just saddening. What a pass we have come to/have never left...Ludwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710107146505111876noreply@blogger.com