"Today, Bangalore stands ahead of Bay Area, San Francisco and California, with a lead of 20,000 techies, while employing a total number of 1.5 lakh engineers."
I live in bangalore,those figures are correct.
However, the educational system has to be seen to be fully appreciated. I spent several months in Calcutta over a couple of years. During at least one visit there were riots at the university; the papers reported bodies hanging from trees. Many had been shot. Same story: students protested because they were stopped from openly exchanging papers, consulting books, or just chatting with friends during examinations.
Lets be a little fair here, just copying and just chatting during exams are malpractices, the students have much political support and relegious support in these places. As for openly consulting books durin exam,most of the universities don't conduct open book exams,except may be at the iit's.Its a malpractice,elsewhere. The university sends special squads appointed by the university itself to check exam malpractices, how ever if the students counter the squad with sickles and knifes and swords-it becomes a common practice that the invigilators get armed police protection. So,in a riot when the students are out to kill,very little can be done to protect themselves and people sadly,get killed. There are a few sensitive spots in india but where I am and in South India,we had no such encounters as yet.
Such education as occurred largely involved rote learning, often based on texts many years out of date.
We learn the fundamentals of enginnering,the basic books of engg. are always the same,we may miss a few updates and advances,thats all.
My impression is that India has a few excellent institutions and a vast number of unbelievably bad schools.
We dont the have resources like you have in the U.S. Sarath. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus