The EXAM is still a ONE DAY test of how much of the entire year's syllabus I can commit to my memory. So if i don't understand jack and I memorize a copy full of notes, it's going to get me through my exams, none the wiser to what economics really means. Sagarika Ghose, IBN journalist and anchor wrote after watching 3 idiots that the entire message- "the-system-sucks-and teachers-are-pathetic-and-who-cares-about-grades-and-the-rat-race-is- foolish." is flawed, and dangerous. While I see her point about making the best you can with what you've got, and just that having access to that system is a HUGE thing for a lot of people, I don't ascribe to the placatory tone of 'aal iz well' that's implicit in that view.
Another point is that 3 idiots, is cinema. Yes, cinema has influence on people, but it's supposed to be entertainment. Let's not castigate it for a message we think is dangerous, especially when that danger is ambiguous. The system is flawed, and we better make a huge hue and cry about it, encourage cinema to take up the social message, as well as journalists, so that we can change things.
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