Chennai- A couple in Chennai have placed an Online Advertisement for the Sperm of an IITian, as reported in Deccan Chronicle. Sounds surprising, but they intend to get a High IQ Child who would finally get into some IITs.
The ideal candidate for sperms “should be an IIT student, healthy, no bad habits, tall and fair”.
Offering a compensation of Rs20,000 for the donor and to relax a bit on the looks part if he happens to be the ‘right person’, the couple said that they intend to ‘start a family filled with love and prosperity.’
The advertisement has shocked many students at the IIT-Madras with some describing it as ‘insane and ridiculous’.
“This advertisement is ridiculous. I think IIT brand name is taken out of context here. May be genetics do play some role, but hard work makes a man intelligent. If they were right, Albert Einstein’s relatives should be the brightest of all in the world. Excellence is mostly hard work,” a student said, on condition of anonymity.
“This is insane. How can sperm from an IITian make any difference. Intelligence cannot be measured. You can only identify intelligence in a person, but one can not measure intelligence in a person by the institution he comes from,” Jatin Mandawat, a second year of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT-M, said.