Of Mathematicians, Nuclear Scientists & Drunken Disorderlies – S08

IIT Hyderabad

The Government has built a new IIT at Hyderabad. Did even one responsible citizen of Hyderabad ask: “When we have IITs in India, why is the Black Box of our Late Chief Minister’s crashed helicopter being sent to the US for reading?

About twenty years ago Chief Justice Krishna Iyer went to the Madras Club where he was invited to deliver a guest lecture. He went in traditional attire (for those who don’t know, it is dhoti and shirt) and was told at the gate that he has to wear a suit because they had a dress code. The outraged Chief Justice aptly walked away from the venue without delivering a lecture, but made a pungent entry in the visitors notebook: “My freedom as a citizen of India ended at the Gates of the Madras Club.”
Fast Forward to Chennai 2017: The prestigious Chennai Institute of Mathematical Sciences has openly declared on their website, albeit in more polite language, that the freed...

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