{"id":932,"date":"2010-02-02T23:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/2010\/02\/02\/idiot-in-her-head\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T23:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:13:05","slug":"idiot-in-her-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/idiot-in-her-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot in Her Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sagarika Ghose <a href=\"http:\/\/ibnlive.in.com\/blogs\/sagarikaghose\/223\/54036\/from-three-idiots-to-a-nation-of-idiots.html\">has a blogpost up<\/a> that can be summarised as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to St. Stephens. I enjoyed it. Therefore I know that the education system is fine, and that all you philistines who did not go to St. Stephens should stop talking about how much the education system sucks, otherwise you will become a nation of idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the poor woman has stopped hyperventilating about how appalling it is that her hard-to-obtain education is being devalued by a mere movie, can somebody please tell her that being snobbish about having gone to St. Stephen\u2019s is so twentieth century? These days, you can be snobbish about what you buy if you\u2019re a yuppie, what you do if you\u2019re a hippie, or the size of your SEZ if you\u2019re a lala. Or, given that we\u2019re in the Great Recession, about <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/jun\/04\/opinion\/oe-daum4\">how frugal you are<\/a>. And if you must resort to education, please bring at least an Ivy League degree or a PhD to the game. St. Stephen\u2019s just doesn\u2019t cut it any longer \u2013 I mean, even Shashi Tharoor went there.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: haven\u2019t actually seen the movie, which is why I\u2019ve refrained from an argument about whether it\u2019s accurate or not.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sagarika Ghose has a blogpost up that can be summarised as follows: \u201cI went to St. Stephens. I enjoyed it. Therefore I know that the education system is fine, and that all you philistines who did not go to St. Stephens should stop talking about how much the education system sucks, otherwise you will become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[491,532,533,1807,1913,2014,2060,2098,2253,2412],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlatans","category-msm","tag-cnn-ibn","tag-condescending","tag-condescension","tag-rajkumar-hirani","tag-sagarika-ghose","tag-shashi-tharoor","tag-snobbery","tag-st-stephens","tag-three-idiots","tag-web-2-0"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-f2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}