F or at least two decades I have been an active stakeholder with the B-schools.

And I have always wondered how B-schools become elitist and irrelevant to its mission of producing entrepreneurs, business leaders and shapers of the economy.

The selection process, curriculum, quality of faculty, pedagogy and the farce called placement are all oriented towards producing clerks for the new East India Company.

We have a B-school "Varna Dharma". This operates through the placement power and the alumni patronage.

To start with, B-schools are now accessible to only the engineers and those who can crack the CAT code through expensive coaching classes, which cracks the selection code -- a.k.a 3 Idiots.

There is very little testing or verification of who would become a better business leader.

Illustration: Uttam Ghosh

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