In today's world when we talk about making girls stand shoulder to shoulder with any man in any career she wishes, i am aghast at the prospect of the future of engineers that our country is producing. And that too at a place none other than what is considered the epitome of technical education in India, an Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Roorkee. Where the girls are forced to get locked up in their hostels by 10:00 PM. Today when we strive to make our cities safer for women working 24X7. We get a college that can't make its own campus safer for its own students. It is anybody's guess how would the mentality of the young minds be moulded and the budding engineers be shaped, how will they go out in the real world and accept assignments that would require them to be responsible for systems and mechanisms that indeed run 24X7. Unlike routine classes in a college, the world doesn't stop when the sun goes down, the world doesn't stop spinning.
I know the arguments that are going to be put up against any such opinion, but i also know that the answer is better education and a better awareness. I hope that if someone who is responsible for making rules such as these, is reading this, WAKE UP. No one can stop thinking at the ring of a bell, the education that u wish to provide does not stop at the end of your lectures, it only starts there. The thinking goes on. If u are asking someone to close their books in library and give up their thoughts in labs, u are killing that thought, u are stopping an innovation. Wake up and welcome to the real world where men strive to be better than women, in the world that appreciates talent, in the world where women win Nobels, and if you can get the Nobel laureates to say that they won it without burning the midnight oil. I am willing to give up my argument.
