Software Jibi Jajabor

Rupanjan Sen
Nov 6 · 2 min read

I always wonder IIT is named as premier institute in India, but why Calcutta University is not considered as premier institute! As the link shows 4 Nobels from a single University, I guess no other University of India has this honour?

https://www.caluniv.ac.in/about/Nobel-Laureates.html

P.S: This post is not an instant emotional reaction to the Nobel of another Bengali. Education is the backbone of Industrialisation. Time and again Bengal proved its competency in the field of Education & industry, if not superiority! Perhaps the time has come for us to revisit ourselves from the origin of Bengal, irrespective of our political belief (Please).

Its actually self detrimental thought, saying British came to Kolkata & thats the reason of the supremacy of Bengal & Bengalis. It’s not. Brits did not choose us & gave privilege to us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bengal

The above post shows us : Following the decline of the sultanate, Bengal came under the suzerainty of the Mughal Empire, as its wealthiest province. Under the Mughals, Bengal Subah generated almost 50% of the empire’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 12% of the world’s GDP.[11]

Can you imagine 12% of the WORLD’s GDP was getting generated by only one tiny state!!

People who has their parents back in Kolkata/ Bengal understand the pain of living far from the family in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune.

Is Kolkata is so incompetent in Education & are we having lack of talent to attract industry to Kolkata. I am not saying Bangalore is bad.

People may talk about infrastructure, do you really think is there or there was ever a better infrastructure in any other city, compared to Kolkata (Recent times other cities grown leaps and bounds to due to augmentation in IT crowd).

Lately lot of buzz around the fact that despite of two Nobel laureate economist why as Bengali we need to go out of Bengal to get our job. Though the post starts with comparison between CU & IIT but its more about asking ourselves whats the reason we are being Software Jibi Jajabor

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