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Mohnish Pabrai's Q&A session with students at the JNV Lucknow on December 27, 2022

Chai with Pabrai

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The Problem With IIT in India

The reason why the IITs have all these openings is that they need very advanced skills to become an IIT professor. But they don't pay you much and industry companies will pay you more than that. So the people are not opting to become professors. What happened with IIT in India is exactly what happened to sprinting in Jamaica. We created a system in India which is creating great engineers and we created a system that is creating better engineers than anywhere in the world. In fact what happened is a system that was copied from a great system. The copycat has become better than the original. Right? You have a copycat in India system. And there is another thing that is

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