•This guy scored only 93 marks out of 360 and got into IIT Bombay.
•You’d surely feel insecure if you scored 93 marks and were sitting next to someone who scored 280+.
•There are around 18900 seats across all IITs, yet you got into a top IIT like Bombay with 20000 rank cuz you are Shoshit Wanchit.
•A GC student scoring 150+ marks will never get into a top IIT.
Stop blaming professors and stop using the Dalit card to hide your incompetence.
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.