I did not turn the pages of the dictionary to see if "Assininism" was a real word, but what I mean to imply is the "condition of being assinine in someone's expression of speech". But if there is a word like that, that is what I would use to describe the following incident.
Recently, the Joint Secretary of a ministerial department, visited IIT and asked for help in various areas of research including medicine, energy, IT and so on.
In my opinion, an engineer is not supposed to "create" a problem, he "solves" it. His training is mainly targeted to handle real world situations. In this context, the faculty and the students of IIT asked the Joint Secretary to give out areas, or requirements in the specified areas where IIT people can help in the required manner.
The response from the Joint Secretary "How can I tell you what the problem is and where the problems lie?" Wow! The joint secretary of a ministerial department and the person does not know where the problems are! I started wondering how government appointments are handled!
The faculty and the students took more than 2 hours to explain to the Joint Secretary, that it was the ministry which was supposed to come up with the gap areas and then projects/research work could be taken up in the respective area. It was hard to explain to the person, who holds an IAS, that is impossible for an engineering student to throw stones in the dark.
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