The buzz

Thinking beyond and breathing outside the air of CGPA's(the grading scale) realm forms quite a minority here at the IIT's. The obsession seems to engulf more or less everybody. Well the boards and JEE weren't enough. Indian academics loves to demarcate, decide fortunes and the student's oblige by craving for any opportunity that results in slightest change in grades or marks. IITians are not expected to be and neither are any different. Some seek attention,some take pride, some see it as opening for better future opportunities, some fear being lamented as under-performers...the reasons may be far too many to list down but the interesting thing is...IIT is still not happy with the technical skills and the enthusiasm shown by the students here which is evident by the constant remarks of the professors about the unhealthy attitude of the students out here.
So it's quite to hard to explain the mindsets as in:
The upper strata(on the basis of CGPA) carries a body language along with them as if there's only a handful better born souls out there than them. Moreover the placements dosen't prove their beliefs totally wrong while the lower strata spends most of the time contemplating and understanding how the hell a minor differences in grades matter so much. But the question is how long are we going to persist with such kind of attitutde...
Maybe the change is very near as new and young India continues to be bold and rejects the supremacy realms based on such petty points. There will be differing views and this text may invite personalized attacks in the form of connotations and remarks but the fact is it's sickening to see people squabble and babble for such issues and it's high time they understand that education in true sense is aimed at attaining knowledge,humility,inclusive growth and development which sadly the current system arrogantly ignores.