IIT Bombay Director resigned but this convo will shook the education system 🚨
Girl student - Sir, you don't even know how much pressure is on a student
Shireesh Kedare - Okay, should we make cheating legal for you guys? So that you don't take pressure? We are asked to design papers for students who have the brains to study. For students who came into IIT through 80 percentile. Just because some of you students came through 30 percentile, we can't make the paper that much easy for other students.
Girl student - You are still being shameless sir. This was all your fault
Shireesh Kedare - I am resigning because there was some of my fault. But each one of you children who has ever done cheating should leave this IIT now. I will also ask the watchman to resign just because he couldn't check someone's pant for a mobile phone. All the parents around the world should also resign from their parental duties if they can't raise a studious child. That student feared them, not us. Your parents should be ashamed to send you to IITs when you are not even capable of passing a single exam of IIT.
Sir literally cooked this girl student. He resigned but he made sure to show the world how bad this education system is. Respect +++
avg btech student can pass an economics exam without studying but an economics student cannot even score 1 mark in signals and systems no matter how hard they try.
and the point isn’t which degree is more important. it’s about the academic rigor of the curriculum itself. every degree deserves respect, but STEM curricula are generally more rigorous mathematically, analytically and technically than bba/bcom/ba
you can study philosophy, literature or economics alongside engineering and become genuinely good at them. but try going the other way and picking up advanced STEM from a BA or bba curriculum. that’s where the gap in academic rigor becomes obvious.
did my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH at IIT Bombay and my PhD at IIT Delhi. I've been a professor for 14 years now. In 22 years of watching the IIT/IIIT system closely, I have never once witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.
During my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH, most of us had no idea what caste our batchmates belonged to. Many of my close friends were SC/ST. We never discussed it. It never entered any conversation or decision. Not once. Our exposure to the humanities department was limited, though — the term "Brahmanical patriarchy" didn't even exist back then.
As a teacher, I don't ask a student's name before solving their doubt. Often I don't know their name at all — some of my classes have 300+ students. We treat them all the same. So does every colleague I know. So did every professor who taught me.
Social media has now filled vulnerable students' heads with a lot of manufactured grievance about caste discrimination that, in my experience, doesn't exist.
No hate, but leftist humanities grads have done enough damage to the country.
Bhai Prof. Suryanarayan Dulle ki kya galti thi? Bas yahi ki he stopped a student from cheating? Matlab yaar ab IIT Bombay m bhi cheatings krwaoge kya tum??
We've got enough of this sh1tshow.
I stand with Suryanarayan Doolla. I will not be a mute spectator to the brazen weaponisation of the 'SC/ST Act' to settle scores with a Professor who caught a student cheating in an exam.
Until 18th September (the day of Sahil Wakode's death), there was not a single complaint from any student, either with the SC/ ST Cell of IIT Bombay or the administration, of any act of caste-based discrimination by this Professor.
When the student unfortunately took his own life after being caught red-handed in the act of cheating, his parents came up with this theory of 'caste atrocity'.
According to Sahil's father, the Professor subjected the student to "severe mental harassment and casteist slurs over the past three months".
Where and how did Sahil communicate this information to his father?
Is this revelation in the form of written text/ whatsapp message or an unrecorded phone call (which we can't verify because Sahil is not in this mortal world)?
And the biggest question of all: Why did Sahil's parents not lodge a complaint with IIT-Bombay or the police and instead chose to let their son suffer for 3 months at the hands of this alleged 'casteist' Professor?
Clearly, they are aware of the provisions of SC/ ST Act. Why did they not take any action? Was it because nothing like this has ever happened?
But for 1 minute, I would have believed their version of events. But this part of the NDTV report got me thinking hard -
"The complaint explicitly names Professor Suryanarayan Dulla, who was also an invigilator during the exam in which Sahil was caught cheating, alleging that he hurled caste-based abuses at the behest of Director Shireesh B Kedare."
Wow.
A professor at IIT-Bombay was conspiring with the institute's Director to bully 1 particular student from the SC community (out of 100s who study there), knowing well that one complaint from him would jeopardise their careers.
When Sahil's father decided to lie with impunity, he should have worked alongside 'caste baiters' on social media to make his conspiracy theory believable, at least.
Because no one with an iota of rationality is buying this narrative, except, of course, politicians and influencers whose existence is based on manufactured and exaggerated victimhood.
In normal cases, a police complaint would have been filed for 'abetment of suicide.'
But Sahil's parents know that a complaint under the SC/ST Act allows for 'preventive detention' without investigation.
This is the fastest way Professor Suryanarayan Dulla could be sent behind bars.
If you are one of those who are willing to stay silent because you believe that it can't happen to you, then be ready for a surprise in jail someday.
Speak up against the brazen misuse of legislation that was intended to give justice to marginalised communities.
There should probably be 400-500 humanities seats across UG and PG programmes across the IITs.
I am sure the other universities, especially the ones proudly named after former politicians, can easily absorb them.
The students can then get some much needed “overall development,” participate in plenty of extra-curricular activities, and, of course, pursue the fine art of activism full time, with academics occasionally interrupting the schedule.
Let IITs continue doing the boring stuff they are actually good at: engineering, science and research.
Spare the IITs. They already have enough problems to solve. 🙏🙏
If Dipke and Rahul Gandhi are asking for resignation of professor who stopped cheating
Then why did they protest against NEET paper leak and demanded Pradhan's resignation?
Congrats!
IIT Bombay has accepted student protestors' demand, To SUSPEND Prof. Suryanarayana Doolla by 12 pm tomorrow. IIT Director announces.
Prof Doolla deserves this. How can he catch & disturb a student when he was sincerely busy in Copying during exam!
This's so wrong. Young minds need concentration while writing exam & double concentration while copying & that too with ChatGPT. How did Prof Doolla dare to catch him & disturb his concentration? Shame!
Go, Prof Doolla! Go out of IIT. Go out of India. Settle somewhere abroad where your brilliant mind will be awarded & rewarded. India doesn't need Brilliant minds, India needs "Young" minds. We will happily blame you & cry on "Brain Drain" without doing introspection. This will never stop.
Go, Prof Doolla. India doesn't deserve you.
Govt must pass "Right to Copy Act" at earliest to avoid such incidences in future.
Ps: About "Casteist Slurs" allegations.... let probe happen but with a question— Why did allegations surface now "suddenly" after 3 months? If not authorities of IIT, weren't friends & parents of the victim aware of it if it was happening for whole 3 months? Why didn't any of them raise a voice then? Pls probe this angle too.
>Privileged enough to use iPhone.
>Got admission to IIT Bombay on a reserved seat.
>Took the seat of a hardworking middle class GC student.
>Was caught cheating in the exam hall and later died by suicide.
People are doing protest and Demanding the resignation of an IIT professor who gave 70% of his life to studying to reach that position.
If you can't compete with general students then kindly don't waste his seat and don't waste your life too 🙏.
Because of the fear of SC ST Act, UC people will start not interacting with Dalits, not indulge eat drink with them, corporates would be reluctant to employ them and then we’d yet again be labelled as casteist, oppressors and charged with discrimination. What a vicious circle. There is no place for us
The child was not “caught with a phone in an exam hall.” He was caught uploading the question paper on ChatGPT on that phone. It is important that facts are not diluted especially in such a serious case. #IITBombay
NEET Paper Leak - Education Minister should RESIGN
Student Caught Cheating - Management is at fault. Professor should RESIGN
What brain dead logic is this?
Not punishing the culprit but punishing the one who is finding and solving the issues?????????
Seriously??
NEET Paper Leak - Education Minister should RESIGN
Student Caught Cheating - Management is at fault. Professor should RESIGN
What brain dead logic is this?
Not punishing the culprit but punishing the one who is finding and solving the issues?????????
Seriously??
It's ironic how the so-called 'Gen Z' now wants lenient punishments for cheating in IIT sem exams just because someone committed suicide when caught for malpractice, yet this same crowd was calling for heads to roll for the NEET paper leaks. Make it make sense. Hypocrites.