When the World Media crossed their limits..


  “Cheating in school tests is an old Indian problem.” -The Washington Post 

Like really? You’re talking about India, the ancient land, home to one of the world’s oldest educational institution Taxila. Yes cheating is a serious problem especially in the state of Bihar. The state with lowest literacy rate has always been in highlights for this. But you cannot quote this as an *old Indian problem*.
But for a change, how about covering that piece of news when a labourer or a housemaid worked hard day and night, worked extra shifts to get his/her children educated? And how about covering these examples as well.. Village labourer cracks IIT entrance, Son of a porter in Nashik has cracked the Indian civil service examination.
Well if that’s not enough, have a look at these statistics from UPSC-
  • Less than 2 in 10 entrants were from a metro or a state capital in ’04
  • More than 5 were born in a tehsil or district town in ’04
  • One out of four are kids of fathers who have not studied beyond matriculation
  • 4 in 10 were engineers, techies or medics
  • More women are making it to the IAS
Oh wait, never mind! They might have cheated too!




I guess the explanation for Americans not getting good grades is the increased level of drug abuse amongst teens, increasing number of high-school moms.

Doesn't matter! We're the target for them right now since our economy promises a bright spot in global economy in near future!


Talking about the money your ancestors looted from us for 200 long years?



Maybe we Indians are really a bunch of A-holes who cheat in every examination. So does that mean Indian Diaspora working in other developed countries at top posts in technical, scientific, health and IT sectors are all cheats? Yeah, and you people are A-holes too then who hire us in such large numbers that too on your top posts!
I am one of those people who criticized Indian Government for banning “India’s Daughter”. But this time BBC, along with other western media have played the wrong move when it came to the Bihar cheating scandal!
Just because you guys got a clipping of students and their relatives cheating collectively in ONE Indian state does NOT give you the right to label us as CHEATERS, okay? It is obviously not the case here in our country because every year we have lakhs of honest students topping the merit lists of secondary, senior secondary, IITs, IIMs,  and so many other world class institutes on basis of their hardwork. And it is because of these students and institutes that Indians get shortlisted as employees in top companies throughout the world.
This move was just a desperate attempt to sham us and our educational system in front of the entire world. Bad move dear, bad move it was. Because hardworking students will make their way out even if another German University denies admission to them because of this.
Atleast one such incidence was much, much better than hundreds of drug mafias in American schools and colleges, or random shootouts by the students.

-via 16december.net

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