Stop Cribbing:: Do IIT And IIM Graduates Know That Jobs In A Market Economy Are Not An Entitlement?

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

India’s Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) campuses are on a warpath against companies who made offers to their students but backed out or postponed hirings at the last moment, leaving students in the lurch.

The institutes and the students are upset, as they should be. But in the outpourings that have graced the pages of several newspapers in subsequent weeks, I detect a strange sense of entitlement that runs contrary to the nature and behaviour of the real world outside. It suggests naivete at best and ignorance at worst about what a real, free market economy is about.