HSS and IITS

when hindu news paper had a tough competition with other new entrants which was sold for rs.1, hindu continued to sell its paper for rs 3.50. that's how a good teacher will always be. it has nothing todo with good teachers. these are some reflections over the present iit's hss system.

in the final semester of my MA i was eager to apply somewhere other than pondicherry. but i never had a dream to join in iit's or any elite institution. one fine afternoon, while i was crossing the dept of economics in PU i found the notice about the MPHIL program offered in one IIT. i thought "i wouldnt make it but anyway let me give a try". actually after studying international relations i had an aspiration for development studies and the degree also hold that name as development. i spend two years in that iit. but beleive me, they neither taught planning nor development. it was a course of soci-economic-psychological phliosophy of social science. in that two years i learned a lot about HSS in iit.
the purpose of iit is to give socio-economic and political awareness to the technology students. if we make a question of 20 starting with who is the present vice-president of india to who is the author of freedom at midnight? iam sure most of the technology student feel this paper more tougher than the JEE and JAM. it is not their fault ,it is the hss dept that is not serving the purpose. then what this big shots in the hss dept are doing?

.... sir, are u free this week? anbarasan i have a conference in cambodia, next week iam going to chec republic and iam attending a conference in european union. may be i will talk to u next month.
these people literally using the brand name for their personal gains. and they are not doing their jobs which are assigned to them (literally teaching to students)

TECH FRIENDS ATTITUDE TOWARDS HSS:
"arae!! why are they having a dept for social issues? we can understand by reading news paper." exactly i heared from my close friend. this is not his fault but the dept gave a message like this, to those technology students. some of my friends openly asked, why your professors are talking too much and confusing :)?
once in the class prof asked how can we develop those tribes in forest? one guy very cooly told give them jeans pants and t-shirt and allow them to access to technology. i was shocked. these people are trained to count the numbers they even see growth in terms of increase in GDP rate (can we consume cement and steel). so it is hss dept responsibility to make them understand the reality. some how one day these students will be in the panel of policy making either in the corporate world or in the government sector. are these HSS dept not cheating the students and the governments(god the amount of money flow in iits's are unimaginable) by not providing the proper information about the society and transformation. if we ask a teacher in hss iit about dalit development and reservation, this will be their answer "take those variables of crimes against dalits and govt expenditure and run a correlation and regression analysis, go for a t-test and u can see whether u r hypothesis accepted or not. so here the empowerment is over. how come few formulas can define social problems? the stafss in the hss are trying to imitate science model( obiviously understood as model for scince).

hss could be more interesting by having film clubs ,debate clubs and enviro clubs for mtech and btech students. that can serve the purpose more than running a regression. these clubs are seperate from extracurricular activies. becuase here the abled person guding them to learn the social issues. i am sure there are interested technology students in society and environment because i see fellow friends read news paper in hostel common room every day:)

LEARNINGS
1) iit is not a suitable palce for a serious social science students,for teachers left to them.
2) iit is good if at all ur topic is one way or another related to technology and society.
3) HSS need to rerpair its baahhh image in iit's (mostly u feel like walking in godown)
4) the very big attidude that teachers having here is " nobody going to ask me why?"
5)the technology students literally lack interest in social issues in india and in world that becuase the courses floated are wague and uncatchy
6) All the iits must make it compulsory that every technology students must undergo studies on indian social problems, enviromnental problem and technology impact. (6 credit must make compulsoryfrom hss.)
7) the research and international papers must be a free time activity for the teachers , they could concentrate mostly on teaching to students.
8) international trips and conferences must be minimised 3 in a year, becuase now a days only students and bulidings are there, teachers are busy outside the institution.
9) there must be a grievence cell for students regarding their academic performances
10) staffs should never have consultancies on behalf of iit brand name.

these iam putting forward only because iam also a stakeholder and one way another the victim of hss and moreover a wellwisher of IIT'S.