My Harvard Reunion

Re: # 17
Dude,
you have one million questions in your post.
My $.02 about IITs
Best IITs in India would in this order in my opinion, kharagpur/Kanpur/Delhi/Bombay/Roorke and the rest.

Kanpur U.P is probably the best in terms of student/teaching quality.

Delhi is best in terms of labs and resources and funding.

IITs are only technology, you can compare IIT to MIT but not Harvard.

As far foreign students are concerned, they do take some NRI(non resident Indians), SAARC students etc. You would need recommendations from your Govt.
I remember that there used to lot of Palestinian students in IIT Delhi, and could still get degree even if they failed(don`t know how it happened).

M Tech courses are not as great as B Tech at IITS, mostly IAS aspirants would join M Tech to save time and money and prepare for IAS while enrolled in M Tech.

Re: # 5
Salim Dost, Aslam Walekum!

I pay no attention to this character.

Re: # 23
#23, where are you getting that I am euphoric?
I am a very realistic person. I do know the values of both the worlds. America has it`s shortcomings and so do India. As it stands today, everybody wants to come to USA why????

#24 by satyamvada
[``Ahmed madani,
You are a product of the pathetic paki education system``]

satya zankhay, madani is one of the 3 Indian java programmers who post on chowk with 62 nicks. He is as pakistani as your father. No offence, just an example.

a great IT course at harvard.

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/almit/default.jsp

Madani Saheb,

There are about 200 odd OK size airports in india, averaging 2 flightrs a day. They can easilly accept more load..its the large hub-airports which are a problem. the demand is very high, its not easy to get an air-ticket and flights are full.

Eliott house these days holds the best Garba in Town during Navratri :-)

Ahmed madani,

You are a product of the pathetic paki education system but atleast you have
managed to resist its influence than some of the other pakis. You ask questions.

Answering your question...NO - India does not have the infrastructure at this time.
Air travel is booming. All the airports are clogged and getting more clogged every day.
There are totally about 150 passenger aircraft (all kinds) today.
However, infrastructure/large capacity is being added at this time and it will start showing
massive results in 2007-2008 time frame.
The change in air-travel has been dramatic. The numbers flying is increasing
exponentially.

Also just because an order is placed doesnt mean the aircraft is delivered immediately !
There is a waiting time, all kinds of approvals are needed, all kinds of financial
arrangements etc.

Re: # 12

Don`t get too euphoric just because you spent 4 years in Cambridge(MA) at Harvard Univ. This is only the beginning and there are thousands of graduates from HU. and have not turned US into an ideal world to live in. Your life has just started buddy. Try to get a good job first now. Make sure you return all overdue books before you pack up and go out in the cold world!

BTW where did you live there Elliott house?

Ref delhiwala #12

[Give credit where due. I am not a Nehru fan but the man is truly responsible of sowing the seeds of educational establishments patterned after Cambridge, University of Leningrad and MIT. But for him there would be no IIT/IIS and IARC in India.]

You know, I am getting sick and tired of crapola from people who in other countries would be institutionalized but in India use papa`s money to get fancy degrees.

Print my response out and go to a browsing center. A 12-year-old chokra there would be able to then do what I want him to do and you can read what appears on the screen.

1. Log on to the internet
2. Type www.google.com and hit the ENTER key.
3. In the textbox that appears, type in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
4. Out of the results that appear, choose what is most likely to be the homepage of IIT, Kharagpur.
5. Click on the button that says ``History``.
6. Read that.

Second assignment:

Repeat the above but use Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore instead of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Now, with your Harvard education(?) do you think you can accomplish that?

[Even Pakistani leadership has acknowledged at numerous times Nehru`s contributions for India]

Pakistanis are mainly Punjabis like yourself or UP bhaiyyas. Statistically, their IQ is not going to be higher. And they are behind on the internet boom so they are unable to google effectively.

[He is known as Father of Modern India.]

Yup. I was reading some time back some old vernacular newspapers in India where he was referred to as the ``Light of Asia``. I guess that stopped when the Chinese punched his lights out in 1962.

Why is everyone so jealous if DehliWala went to Harvard to study. I wish you all and me myself the most to get a chance to study there... Check www.usnews.com, harvard MBA grads get an AVERAGE of $99,000 per year starting, and that is just the average, means the top students will easilly cross $100,000 per year!

Gratz Dehlidude... :|

Free higher education in India is story of the past.When I graduated from Medical Colege Patiala in eightees,fee of one prof(18 months) was around Rs.1500 or so but now it is several thousands(dont know the exact amount) and all state colleges have reserved several seats for NRIs,costing several lacs of rupees each year.Same is the case with Engineering colleges.
Karnatka state alone has probably more number of professional colleges than rest of India combined and except some,they have no criteria of marit...its only your paying power.
There has been mushrooming of Engineering colleges(and Dental Colleges) in Punjab lately......I can count minimum seven just around Chandigarh...they are all commercial.Admission to a private dental college costs anywhere between 5 lac and 20 lac.
This is the direct effect of discarding the Nehruvian socialistic model and adoption of open economy/globalization since the time of Narsimha Rao.

#18,
There is typo in the article. This guy actually went to Howard college and that is a black college in Washington, DC. All East coast cities are identical. Dark and dorky!
If a person writes in such a non funny style about a fun event of graduation, must have gone to Howard and not Harvard...

About IIT read today some IIT man from usa is starting big airline company in India. The news says he has ordered 100 airbus airmachines that is big money. Is there market in India as most travel by slow moving railway built by english over hundred years ago. Can they have passangers for new 100 plane Introduction in India? ( or they have airports also to handle sudden 100 planes).
Thanks sorry for too many questions

Thanks for article about worlds greatest collge. I am confused is there same named college in UK also ( oxford harward and cambridge?). Sir Izzac Newton was prof there in 1600s.
How much is fee per year and is it more engg college like IIT. ( Indians compare that college to IIT). How much is fee for IIT per year? Is harward in IT areas like IIT?
Do they reserve seats for minorities and backward hindus in IIT? Are there any seats for SARAC countries and if yes how much fee per year in dollars? If special reservations are made once admitted to disadvantaged students graded on different scale considering disadvantages or treated as normal students ?
Can any american address if IIT grad and Harwad apply assuming both fine how much harward will have advantage in dollars ? How is lahores managemwnt school grads do in usa? Is IIT engg + management courses taken for engineers or they have MBA (IIT). Which is best IIT in India ? Can any body give how for start salary they do?
Thanks too many questions. I have heard about IIT.
In Arab land IIT is not considered very good.
American collge degree
Europe degree (England top)
Arabic univ- native vernacular schools
Pakistan Univs
IITs
is order.

This reminds me of my graduation day and consecutive reunions at IBA...good ol`days..

i wish i could reverse the wheel of time and start all over again..

Re: # 4
Thanks Tahmed Sir Jee!

It has it`s own charm, there are many people who never leave Universities in their life. They just want to hang on there doing odd jobs.

Mostly, Boston Colleges are money making machines. Maybe there are 5-10% sincere students who really fall under studious category. Rest of them are just there to work hard, get good grades and move on.

One area that I really like at Harvard was Divinity. If time permits one day I would like to go back and study Divinity there.