The Technium  3 Renegades  China's DNAWho's Your City  I've just
watched one of my favorite films. The backstory:  Hundreds of
millions of young students in India and China (and the rest of
Asia) are hoping to escape their parent's lives of poverty,
manual work, or stultifying government sinecures, and find a
real professional job. To do that they need to claim a very
limited slot in one of a very few good universities. And then
graduate. Only a very tiny percent of those hoping for this
dream make it. The pressures are immense.  It is not uncommon
for Asian families to expect, even demand, that their sons be
engineers and their daughters doctors. No questions, or
unhappiness, permitted. It's your family duty.  Images 6  This
is the cultural context for the mega-hit Bollywood film 3
Idiots. 3 Idiots tells the story of three engineering students
who are pressured by their society to pursue a degree they are
not really suited for, and how they are swayed by a renegade
student who wants them to follow their blis