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Snarky Response Day -I

Published by Ravikiran Rao February 7th, 2004 in Media

(I am taking this back. See here)
In response to my post on Rajeev Srinivasan’s Innumeracy, one Mahesh writes

Three conclusions that I can draw from [yo]ur response to Rajeev’s article:
1. You are a non-IITian(so am I..). Thats why you tend to pick on what his background is rather than the article first.

2. I think he has a well-explained logic than what you do, in 3 lines. His logic seems to be reasoned out better and is more acceptable.
3. “Nehru Penalty” was an apt term and that was the basis of his article, and he explained it quite clearly.

To which I can only repond


  1. I am an IITian. That makes me smarter than you and fully qualified to comment on Rajeev Srinivasan.
  2. His logic is wrong, regardless of how well he explained it. It is wrong even if the conclusions are right. It is okay for ordinary people like you to be wrong, but not an IITian. I do not want to live in a world where an IITain gets his (it is always a his) logic wrong and not get challenged by another IITian.
  3. I like the term Nehru Penalty too. I’d like to see someone calculate it. But Rajeev Srinivasan was still wrong in his logic.

7 Responses to “Snarky Response Day -I”  

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  1. 1 GK Feb 7th, 2004 at 6:13 pm

    – I am an IITian. That makes me smarter than you and fully qualified to comment on Rajeev Srinivasan.—

    ..a trifle bloated aren’t we?

  2. 2 Ravikiran Feb 7th, 2004 at 8:43 pm

    Nope. I am rather slim. Why do you ask?

  3. 3 GK Feb 7th, 2004 at 9:44 pm

    btw Rajeev Srinivasan’s ‘technical’ fault is true after all. It seems he is a bit miffed with the Nehru family for quite sometime… the offhand ‘Mallu’ remark .. lol

  4. 4 aNYa Feb 8th, 2004 at 11:50 am

    I had missed that post earlier, but reading it now .. Although a Nehruvian Penalty does seem rather tempting, I agree that an ideal model should (obviously) reflect the actual growth observed.

  5. 5 Mahesh Shantaram Feb 10th, 2004 at 10:35 am

    Ohmigod! I’m loving this! Ravikiran is back with newly sharpened incisors!

  6. 6 Deepak Feb 11th, 2004 at 12:44 pm

    Huh, IIT-B? Or IIIT-B? Strange. ;-/

  7. 7 Kersi Feb 23rd, 2004 at 10:54 am

    Just one little point to be noted….
    The IITs which are government run educational institutions giving top notch education at amazingly reasonable prizes(compared to the top western universities) were entirely a Nehruvian socialist idea. So stop critisizing Nehru when you’re just a lucky product of his vision