If the IITs were the houses of Game of Thrones, these are the houses they would represent

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are one of the best institutes in India and the history of these institutions date back to 1946. The first IIT was set up in 1951 in Kharagpur.

Since then, a number of IIT campuses mushroomed in different parts of the country such as IIT Bombay was set up in 1958, IIT Madras in 1959, IIT Kanpur in 1959 and IIT Delhi in 1961. The newest IIT has come up in Dhanbad as Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad was conferred with IIT status in 2016.

Each IIT campus reflects a different ideology, geography, culture, rankings and thought process and each of them is fighting to get the number one spot.

Now, link this to the popular American TV series Game of Thrones! Yes, there are striking similarities between IITs and Game of Thrones.

There is fight for an iron throne (in case of IITs, number one slot), Game of Thrones has different houses (in case of IITs, different locations) and every house has a distinct trait.

In Game of Thrones, there is a night’s watch and in IITs, night’s watch is education ministry.

A thread on Quora became popular that asked If IITs were houses of Game of Thrones, which IIT would represent which house?

Here are the interesting answers

(Images: Wikipedia, HBO)