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How healthy?

The report that IIM-A students have received higher salary offers this year, as high as $1.85 lakh a year, evokes mixed feelings. While the offer may reflect the acceptance of IIMs as world-class institutions, such high salaries to new recruits are not necessarily healthy.

A degree is only a recognition of one's suitability for a job. Nothing can replace experience. IIM graduates are certainly not superhuman or in any way superior to students topping different fields of study. High salary offers only lead to the inexperienced developing a superiority complex before their heads can firmly sit on their young shoulders.

V. Hariharan,
Chennai

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While I have no grouse against our brilliant young men getting fat salaries, such pampering would be really justified if they discover new revolutionary concepts.

The brilliant IIM brains are being used for generating not real wealth but only imaginary wealth.

V. Venkatasubramanian,
Mumbai

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