India’s educational system is in tatters and worse, the little that is there to offer is inaccessible to many. Enter IIN, the greatest thing to happen to Indian education since teachers learnt to say “out of syllabus”.
The Idea Internet Network, with an abbreviation that fits right alongside the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management and another outfit run by a man know to file legal suits from Silchar, has turned up as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Forced to work in your dad’s shop? IIN can teach you how to build a drone and make your work a little easier. Not allowed into college because you’re third-gendered? IIN gives you access to subjects with the same glitchy user interface of the Indian educational system. Stuck in the middle of Haryana’s patriarchal lands? Well, you’re still locked in the house, but you can see what an outside education might look like on IIN.
And this revolutionary development has not gone unnoticed. The Idea Internet Network has piqued everyone's curiosity, particularly those whose marks mean they can't really attempt to get into any other college. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of information out there on the internet about this great institution that could revolutionise India. Other than the TV ads that serve as perfect testimonials, we know very little, but intrepid citizens across our social networks have managed to cobble together a few details.
On Quora, Sudhindra Sanjeev answered the first, most important question: What is IIN?
It's become so popular, it seems that India's grand old institutions are in trouble. Students appear to be leaving the IITs in drove to join the IIN, where studies are of course much easier and you don't have to try and live a Chetan Bhagat-type life at all, at least according to a report in FakingNews.
But you can't get this far without ruffling some feathers. There will always be a few killjoys who argue that there's nothing new in this, that the ads are simply trying to mislead us when all they're describing is the internet itself. And don't pay heed to people who say that telling oppressed women who are not allowed to go to school that they can get by on just wikipedia isn't exactly progressive. After all, IIN is truly disruptive technology. The only question remains what it will end up disrupting.
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The Idea Internet Network, with an abbreviation that fits right alongside the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management and another outfit run by a man know to file legal suits from Silchar, has turned up as a one-size-fits-all solution.
Forced to work in your dad’s shop? IIN can teach you how to build a drone and make your work a little easier. Not allowed into college because you’re third-gendered? IIN gives you access to subjects with the same glitchy user interface of the Indian educational system. Stuck in the middle of Haryana’s patriarchal lands? Well, you’re still locked in the house, but you can see what an outside education might look like on IIN.
And this revolutionary development has not gone unnoticed. The Idea Internet Network has piqued everyone's curiosity, particularly those whose marks mean they can't really attempt to get into any other college. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of information out there on the internet about this great institution that could revolutionise India. Other than the TV ads that serve as perfect testimonials, we know very little, but intrepid citizens across our social networks have managed to cobble together a few details.
On Quora, Sudhindra Sanjeev answered the first, most important question: What is IIN?
But of course, just knowing what it is can't be enough. People also want to be able to get into this wonderful institution that managed to teach Kalash Nikov how to make guns. Here, a reddit user offers advice on the procedure to get admission.
The ads have also generated a lot of interest across the board. Such fascinating advertisements and great promises tend to do this. Type IIN or Idea Internet Network into Twitter at any given time and you're sure to find people raving about the educational system and its many possibilities.
This is what happens when you learn English from IIN. pic.twitter.com/B49e3z9Jc7
— Ojas. (@Ojasism) March 19, 2015Read some physics type articles on Wikipedia using my Idea Internet Network, so now expecting a job offer from NASA any time soon. — Manali Shetye (@Manali_Shetye5) March 6, 2015The Sangh Parivar collective should first study Kashmir, even if it is from Idea Internet Network.
— Rahul Pandita (@rahulpandita) March 7, 2015So that's where Twitter celebs come from. After all, if you "need an ikon twitterer", you'd go to "Idea Internet Network" #anagram
— Diogenes (@diogeneb) February 22, 2015It's become so popular, it seems that India's grand old institutions are in trouble. Students appear to be leaving the IITs in drove to join the IIN, where studies are of course much easier and you don't have to try and live a Chetan Bhagat-type life at all, at least according to a report in FakingNews.
“Did you even check out the look on the proud father’s face in the end? My father was never as happy when I made it to the IIT. I want to make him proud. And that can be done only by joining IIN and making a flying-swimming-bathing-talking drone.”
But you can't get this far without ruffling some feathers. There will always be a few killjoys who argue that there's nothing new in this, that the ads are simply trying to mislead us when all they're describing is the internet itself. And don't pay heed to people who say that telling oppressed women who are not allowed to go to school that they can get by on just wikipedia isn't exactly progressive. After all, IIN is truly disruptive technology. The only question remains what it will end up disrupting.