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IITians, do something for Indian education
You just cannot do without IITians, who aim to transform India, and who have the whole world ahead of them. IITians can do wonders, having created a global brand. Never forget, dear fellow IITians, that the world is your oyster.
Stringing together these headlines from rediff.coms coverage of PanIIT 2006 is in sharp contrast to Deng Xiao Pings dictum for China: Tao guang yang hui, which literally translates to Hide brightness, nourish obscurity. While IITians and Indians are busy doing victory laps, China and Chinese educational institutions have been going by the mantra of bide our time and focus on building ourselves
I speak as a proud IIT Bombay alumnus who has spent over ten years working with fellow alumni in building the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund (IITBHF), one of Indias leading alumni organizations, which has helped raise over $20 million for IIT Bombays Tryst with Excellence.
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