The " Innovative" in "India, IIT& IIM...."

Pic Courtesy: Facebook group

We IITians and IIMites (hallowed passouts from the Indian Institutes of Technology and Management) must be the one of the most ingenious of all. After all, there is an "I" in both, right , " I" for ingenious and " I" for innovative. Last week, I may have discovered how.

A chance look at all the linked in email subscriptions for daily digests, weekly digests, hourly updates , minute by minute podcasts and what have you, and some futile attempts to clean up the bulk mail (futile as discovered  much later, for these mails are as abundant as cockroaches. Get rid of one and two more magically appear), led  to the long list that is now proudly displayed below. By the way, this, is only the " linked-in " truncated list- by no means can the original, anacondaic one be reproduced here without the post being eaten up. And this does not  even include Facebook and others. Therefore, only a taster of facebook groups appears below.

Linked in groups:

Entrepreneurs from IIT DelhiDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIM JobsDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIM SocietyDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIMB Alumni AssociationDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIMNET.COMDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIT AlumniDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIT Delhi AlumniDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

IIT Women AlumniDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

INDIA MBA FORUMDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

Pan IIM Alumni Association : an IImNet initiativeDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

Pan IITDaily Digest EmailWeekly Digest EmailNo Email

Facebook groups:

Women Of IIT Delhi.

IIT Delhi- Kailash hostel

IIT Delhi- batch

IIT Delhi- reunion

IIMB alumni

IIM etc etc. and the list goes on.

So, you see, dear readers- this certainly begets the question :How many PANIIT and Pan IIM associations are there? And this is on top of individual IIM associations. IIMAhmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow and God knows what else. Not to forget IITs and the individual IIT Bombay ,Delhi ,Kanpur, Madras ( not yet christended IITC - even though Madras is now officially Chennai), the list goes on and on. By the last count there are some 12- 13 IITs now, pardon my poor General knowledge quotient (GKQ).

Wow ! I got tired of just counting. Well, well, linked in. Bet you are having a hard time too, just getting all the newly formed pan- whatever whatever to find new names. And each one goading me to join, some asking for hard-earned cash, and some others cajoling me to " just give them an email Address".. all in all, i'm spoilt for choice now.. the next best thing, ask them to give some cash in return for MY esteemed membership.. Ha ha what says? I for ingenious, I for innovative, I for inimitable (but imitated anyway) and I for India. The Indian Institutes of Innovation, i say..

Regards,

Aina Rao

The amblingindian.

 This post is dedicated to IIT Delhi, the alma mater. You rock- Love you always!!

Aina at the IITD reunion