Hi !
I am posting this at 2 AM in the night because I got so much disturbed by what I read just now !
By now, most of you folks out there must have heard of IIPM, Mr. Gaurav Sabnis, and Rashmi Bansal. If you haven't in a Nut Shell, JAMMAG, a popular MBA magazine by Rashmi, an IIM-A alumnus, carried out a report evaluating the various B-schools present in India. She rightly went out to point the fake advertisements carried out by IIPM [Yes, the Arindam Chaudhari School, who recently delved into Movie Production of all things and came up with the maha-absymal Rok Sako Toh Rakh Loh, which is soo bad, that even me couldn't watch it after the first 20 minutes]. Following Rashmi's take on IIPM, her blog was splogged by IIPM activists [U should see the posts to know what I mean], but thankfully she din't budge and stood up to what she had said.
To just illustrate how stinking IIPM's campaigns are :
[By Hanoz, a current PGP-1 at IIM-Ahmedabad]
I have been born and brought up in Ahmedabad and when i saw the IIPM ads for the first time and saw IIPM ahmedabad (magnificient towers, et al) i wondered where it is and if it's so big and state-of-art with 7th-wonder-of-the-worldish architecture, how come I never noticed it.
I got to know about it accidentally one day....IIPM Ahmedabad is situated in Hollywood! (A large slum area quite close to IIM-A) and it's a dingy li'l building (4-6 storey) regular commercial complex with glass !!!
Its called IIPM tower and a uniformed chowkidaar is seated down there.
on further inquiry I found out that only 2 floors were owned by IIPM and they had paid some amt. to have the name hanging from the building! A cramped li'l place with absolutely no infra and located in a stinking area all conveniently washed out and replaced with a nice background using [Adobe] photoshop for the advertisements!
on further inquiry I found out that only 2 floors were owned by IIPM and they had paid some amt. to have the name hanging from the building! A cramped li'l place with absolutely no infra and located in a stinking area all conveniently washed out and replaced with a nice background using [Adobe] photoshop for the advertisements!
Just thought that this might be interesting for the junta to know !!
So, before IIPM goes all hollering at Rashmi or anybody else, they should look down their own horses, which crossed all limits of decency today.
Well, now talking of Gaurav, he carried a post linking to the JAMMAG story and was harrassed in numerous ways. First, he was served a LEGAL NOTICE [Yes !!] by IIPM's legal department and splogged as well. But, then, when this didn't work, IIPM pioneered Educational Militantism and threatened Gaurav's employers' IBM that all the IIPM students will burn their IBM Thinkpads before IBM's Delhi HQ, if Gaurav didn't remove his posts.
And guess what Gaurav did ? He resigned today. I feel really stupid now. All Gaurav had done was exercised his Freedom of Speech now and asked for Arindam C's credentials [which I doubt now as well, agar hain, toh why is he so afraid of showing them ? Remember Rajiv Gandhi's disparagement about his degree from Cambridge, which was resolved a year back ?]...
My sympathies with Gaurav, and Arindam C...U might have sold a hazaar books, but you sure have forgotten to be decent and humane.
A very pained :(
ranjan
Update 1: Online Petition has been created to protest against IIPM. Please sign the petition and tell these guys to take their trash elsewhere.
Update 2: BlogWorld has actively taken up the gauntlet against IIPM and let it be known, that We won't be cowed by some idiotic sploggers who dare curtail our freedom of speech. Attached below is a list of Bloggers who have actively carried posts about the Issue (Thanx Kaps !).
Harini Calamur, Press Talk, Varun's Thoughtful Chaos, Srini, The Arbit Council, DesiPundit, Anshul, Charu, Patrix, Muthuvel, Thalassa Mikra, Jagan, Vijay Krishna, Vatsan, Mridula, Jo, Varna, Amrit Hallan, Ash, Shivam Vij, Swaroop, Jujitsu Mode, Uma, Abi, Toufeeq Hussain, Shub, Ranj, Shivam, Abhishek, Rajan, Havoc, Kaushik, Chandru, Alpha-Q, Mandar, Kaushal, Chenthil, Tony, Bonatellis, Apurv Pandit, Scudie, Press Talk - K, Sriyansa, Miss J, Neha, TablePost.Com, Chitthacharcha (Hindi), Sujatha, Hitchiker, Sowmya, Saket, Varun (Part 2), Press Talk (Part 2), Vijay Krishna (Part 2), Dhananjay, Sriram, The Comic Project, Curious Gawker, Jai Arjun Singh, Secular Right India, Jaya Jha, Navin, Sudhish Kamath, Ravikiran, Vinaya, Niket, George Thomas, Ajay Bhat, Jinal, Om Malik, Kitabkhana, Jagan (Part 2), BigBlogLog, Kamesh, Transmogrifier, Chernoff, Varun (Part 3), Hitanshu, Srikar, Rajkumar, Almost Useless, Falstaff, Sunil Laxman, Mercatus, Arzan, Nitin Pai, Veer Jain, Nupur Dave, Nirav, Jitendra Mohan, Mayank, Varnam, Soumyadip, Uma MD, Vishal, TTG, Chandru (Part 2), Angry Grad Student, Anantha Narayan, Pradyot, Amit Chaudhry, Sandesh, Dilip D'Souza, Chenthil (Part 2), MMK, Salman's Shirt, Bharat, Nikhil, Kaushik, Aditya Kuber, Icarus Prakash (Tamil), Infinite Circle, Ketan, Durga, Kamlesh Singh, Pankaj, Harish Kumar, Aparna, Ashish, Swarnasrikrishnan, Rachel, Shel Israel, Rahul, Kaushik and Bidisha, Srijith, Anand, I-Sight, Logical Thinking, Sakshi, Shivam Vij (Part 2), Gururajan, Dhananjay (Part 2), Bhagya, Kunal, Sandeep, Ramanand, Satish Vijaykumar, Ashwin BS, Flying Death, Vayanasala (Malayalam), Shivangi, Govar, Harini (Part 2), Shreyas Ghuge, Prufrock, Amit Chaudhry (Part 2), The Unknown Indian, Prasoon, Killer Bunty, Suhail Kazi, Elne, Abhishek, Ravi, Aishwarya, Ram Viswanathan, Curious Gawker (Part 2), Wanderstruck, Leela, Vishwanathan, The Bat, Scribbler (Part 2), Vaibhav, Weblogsky, Varna (Part 2), Divya, Sujith, Jroller, Madhoo, Sowmya (Part 2), Shoefiend, Varun (Part 4), Ash (Part 2), Ravikiran (Part 2), Veena, Salt Water Blues, Hyperorg, Ashutosh, India Blogs, Karthik, Arnold D'Souza, DesiTrain, Suds, Vijay Krishna (Part 3), Saurabh, Senthil, Arzan (Part 2), Uma (Part 2), Urmea, Kingsley, Sad Old Bong, Anshul, Rajesh, Lubu, Ravikumar, Neha (Part 2), Varun (Part 4), Anti, Instant Kaapi, Lazy Geek, Minorscale, Ferrari Prabhu, Emma, Kishore, Chenthil (Part 3), Aekta, Kashyapapeya, Sambhar Mafia !!
I have been following this issue since it first appeared and the recent developments have thoroughly disgusted me .. IIPM is into arm twisting and the comments on Rashmi's blog are really pathetic and blood curling.. Me being from a media background realise that this issue wont be covered in the mainstream media coz IIPM is a big advt .. even if it is covered the issue will be skewed.. causing Gaurav Sabnis to resign was the heights .. But what really struck me in this whole issue is the way both Gaurav and Rashmi ahve conducted themselves in a mature and dignified manner.. It is heartening to see the online community rallying behind them.. The IIPM tower in Mumbai is no better and is of the same description .. i personally know a student who regrets studying there .. but such institutes have existed and will continue to exist .. since educationis big business in this country..
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