My Harvard Reunion

Delheewallah,

While your piece seems to be focusing on the university as a corporate brand name, this is not news. You might want to include how post 9/11 policies towards immigration and international students have pushed some of the best and brightest towards China, India and Europe for higher education. As the US has always profitted from the influx of highly talented immigrants, the consequences of these misguided and distrustful policies only mark the US`s inevitable decline as superpower. Our Great Leaders seem to be more interested in starting Christian colleges-and once religious ideology passes as the only relevant knowledge making system, we are truly headed towards mediocrity.

Also, not a mention of a single prof or class that changed your life? All that money, and all you got for it was a keychain?

Yaar delhiwale..it doesn`t matter who I am , but Khamkhwa is clearly jealous of Harvard grads..

[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).] - delhiwala.

... the way it happened with you... ;))

Re: # 35
Mr Khamkhawa, please leave my thread alone. Spread your hatred elsewhere with your girlfriends.
This is a clean thread with quality participation, if you want to be civil you are welcome otherwise please don`t come here.

Goodbye!

#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.

Re: # 27

I was also getting a feeling that I have encountered him before.
No matter what you do, people will still give away in aliased NICs.
Why can`t everyone be happy and peaceful, why this India/Paki hatred, even on the internet, 58 yrs after the partition??????

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.

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.

Re: # 20

Drlokraj: Did you goto Patiala medical College?
Was there a Professor Hracharan Singh Cheema there?

Re: # 34
I am not sure.If you are talking about Prof.Harcharan Singh of Social and Preventive Medicine,then yes.He did not use any surname.He was our vice principle when I joined Medical College Patiala,but he soon got selected to a very high office in Delhi(Deputy Director General and perhaps became Director General of Health Services of India).He was perhaps the finest teacher of S.P.M.around that time in the whole country.

Re: # 40
He is dead now for the last 4 yrs. He joined Planning Commission as Additional Secretary Health Ministry then he joined WHO. He had some Liver complications.

Re: # 77
If you were his student then you have to be a good Doctor. I miss him very much.