I realized that most of them wanted to take a job outside India with top MNCs. Nobody was interested in India unless out of family compulsions. It wasn’t like they were pissed off with India; they were just not interested. These students played poker, drank beer, smoked pot, attended standup comedy shows and dreamt of having an IT professional for a wife and driving a BMW in an American suburb. In their minds, they were not part of a suffering, conflicted, mediocre India. They wanted to be rich and successful. It’s sad that we teach enterprise, but not vision. This was a new, shining India. An
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