Students from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are seldom portrayed as the Sheldons from Big Bang Theory, Dexter from Dexter’s Laboratory and Raju Rastogis from 3 Idiots . And a recent survey conducted by IIT-Bombay further strengthens our belief.
According to media reports, IIT-B kids were highly inspired by the Harvard Crimson’s Freshman Survey, conducted by Harvard University’s newspaper. They too carried a similar survey with 254 of the 875 freshmen from the 2015 batch.
The study revealed results that were considered highly shocking and unbelievable. But we at The Quint found the results absolutely fine and pretty obvious. What in fact surprises us are people’s reactions.
Let’s Talk About Sex. Not!
It’s been revealed that the kids who join the geeky world of IITs are pure and pious. In other words, virgin. Apparently, about 95% of the IIT-B freshmen have never had sex. This, for some reason, has shocked our ‘sanskari’ nation.
Come on, all their jawani is spend trying to to crack JEE so that they can proudly wear a IIT badge. Their dream is to ‘get in to’ IIT not to ‘GET IN’. Got it?
In the Name of God
For god’s sake, why is it surprising that only 47% of the same students believe in the almighty? Bhai, it’s this very ‘bhagwan’ who got them so far. After disturbing god day and night, their prayers have finally been answered. Who needs a girl when you’ve got god on your side.
Bhagwan ke bharose seh hi duniya kaayam hai.
Alcohol, Smoking – Tauba, Tauba!
Sorry Rajkumar Hirani, but your blockbuster hit 3 Idiots lacked research. How could you have a scene with Rancho, Raju and Farhan sharing their ‘gham’ with a glass of rum? That’s unacceptable for the freshmen of IIT-B. Mr Hirani, did you know 83.5% of them have never tried alcohol and 94.8% don’t smoke?
Seriously, how could you expect kids to drink when they have to give one of the most toughest entrance exams?
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