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Created and written by famous stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath , ' Laakhon Mein Ek ' (One Among Millions) is a web series about the harsh reality behind the IIT Coaching Industry and the great Indian race to book a seat in an IIT ( Indian Institute of Technology ). Please note that this is not a review of the web series. I'm not a critic but all I can say is that I really loved the series and I would recommend you to watch it. So, I'm writing this post to share some of the issues highlighted in the series with some of my own opinions having myself been a part of that race.  Overview The story revolves around Aakash , a 15-year-old teenager, who is forced to join Genius Infinity , an IIT coaching institute by his dictatorial father. The series begins with Aakash mimicking Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan while shooting a video for YouTube which reflects his interest in acting and mimicking. Aakash is shown as quite an average student who had s...

Diwali: A Festival of Sound and Air Pollution. Probably this is how the coming generations will remember the ' The Festival Of Lights ' as. We would be celebrating Diwali this year in a matter of few days, same as last year, and you're reading yet another post trying to convince you to celebrate this Diwali eco-friendly , same as last year. Each year we celebrate this festival to mark the victory of good over evil which is quite ironic when we ourselves are the villains to mother earth and our future generations , who'll probably blame and curse us for leaving the nature in a dismal state during their lifetime.    Traditionally , Diwali was celebrated by buying new clothes , enjoying various sweets , lighting up houses with lamps and lanterns and was a festival of sharing happiness with family and friends. But over the years, the festival has lost its meaning and has instead turned into a day of peak environmental pollution and excess power consu...

India is one of the largest producers of engineers in the world. Yet, more than 70% of engineers are unemployed due to severe competition, and by some estimates only 7-8% of engineering graduates are actually employable.  These are the first two lines of the Wikipedia article;  Engineering education in India . Wikipedia Logo Aspiring Minds , an Indian employability evaluation, and certification company revealed that only 7 percent of engineering graduates in India were suitable for core engineering jobs in its National Employability Report 2016: Engineers  after a study on 1,50,000 engineering students. It also revealed that a whopping 97 percent of the engineering graduates wanted jobs in either software engineering or core engineering. However only 3 percent of them possessed the suitable skills to be employed in software or product market, and only 7 percent could handle core engineering tasks. Aspiring Minds is an Indian evaluation and certificatio...