Was watching a film yesterday.... actually a short film made by the students from IIT- Madras. It was a story about 4 roommates/friends in IIT-M, each one of them could be broadly classified as a 'type'of engineer, one who took up engineering in the hopes of changing the world by 'building-up' things, one who had his future planned out- pursuing a bachelor's degree in his favourite discipline in one of India's top engg school, then going abroad to a bigger yet university to complete his higher education and get a fat pay-scale, one who had merely got his discipline (or branch as its commonly known) out of the zillion options he had filled at the time of counselling and lastly the fourth one,who had taken up engineering only to find out that he actually loved one of the basic sciences (physics in the movie), who was so attached to his family that he could not find the courage to tell them that he needed to go abroad in order to pursue his dream subject. Needless ...