Brand vs Brilliance

There is raising of eye brows that the new CEO of Microsoft is not an IITian !. Over time IITs have become strait jacketed in mass producing excellence.But this has not restricted other and ' lesser ' institutions in contributing to brilliance. Satya Nadella is one of such product.What is remarkable , in this era of relentless pursuit of individual careers and   hopping on to disparate job contents, Nadella has has stuck  with one company to persevere for  22 long years ,to be a Titan .Whereat, pedigreed IITians have only managed to, become big, may be in  much larger numbers, on the wings of  a generic brand value .This brand too has been finding greater acceptance on Wall Street or in IT start ups and less in premiere engineering / scientific research institutions, In these six plus decades of IITs ,in an era of ever exploding  scientific ken,its alumni has negligible contributions to either cutting edge technologies or through great scientific papers. Perhaps to screen this deep set angst ,the nation  seeks out small vindications  through the success of men of Indian origin elsewhere.

Pub Financial Express Feb 8

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/letters-to-the-editor-nadella-s-rise/1224107.
Pub-The Pioneer Feb 10
http://www.dailypioneer.com/letters-to-the-editor/iits-are-great-but-they-dont-create-nadellas.html