A day after Infosys chairman emeritus N. R. Narayana Murthy voiced his displeasure over the quality of engineers that pass out of the IITs, author Chetan Bhagat has taken to Twitter to form a counter-attack.
"It is ironic when someone who runs a body shopping company and calls it hi-tech, makes sweeping comments on the quality of IIT students," the author of Two States wrote on Twitter.
"Mr Murthy had a point, but wish he wasn't so sweepingly high handed. Fix the system. No point judging students."
"IITians have made a great contribution in making Infosys what it is. Hope people remember that," he added.
On October 3, while addressing a gathering of hundreds of former IITians at a 'Pan IIT' summit here, Murthy said the quality of students entering Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has deteriorated over the years due to the coaching classes that prepare engineering aspirants.
He said the majority of the students fare poorly at jobs and global institutions of higher education.
"Thanks to the coaching classes today, the quality of students entering IITs has gone lower and lower," Murthy said, receiving a thundering applause from his audience.