Fellow (or should that be felli) blogger, Rashmi Bansal has been blogging for quite sometime on Youth Curry. As editor & Publisher of Jam she has a fairly incisive view on issues that impact the youth of today.
The issues that she does comment on regularly include education and insitutes of higher education that claim to provide an edge. In her cross hairs – at various points in time have been Amity, Rai, IIPM and the ilk. Essentially private institutes which seem to have neither accountabiltiy nor responsibility, and seem to have extremely deep pockets for full page ads and prime time spots in leading media vehicles. If they had been ‘public sector’ types the obvious question would have been – where does so much money come from. Everytime I see one of these full time ads – i remember an institution called Wintech, which promised everyone the earth, the moon, the stars, and then collapsed leaving a lot of unpaid bills and a lot of broken dreams.
Anyway, to come back to the point – Rashmi has got on the bad side of those who run
And in other news – Gaurav Sabnis has got a legal notice from IIPM for writing this.
He has also been libelled on various blog sites. What next – goons standing outside everyone’s homes with hockey sticks?
Methinks that the bunch are taking their failed movie – Rok Sake to Rok lo – a bit too seriously.
other bloggers taking this up Sambhar Mafia, Walk with me, Press Talk, Charu, Desipundit, Anshul, Patrix ,
I will try and keep updating this list. And i am sure that Indian blogdom is going to come out in full support of Rashmi & Gaurav.
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
well.. shit happens. and i wld like to say the same thing once again. may be rashmi is a lesbian… may be she got thrown out of iim a… but how does tht make IIPM a better college than it is. i fail to see the connection.
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 9:02 pm
there is no connection. those who slander her, do so in the hope that it will divert from the issue.
frankly, if you produced students who argued like this then “tumhe chullu bhar paani mein doob marna chahiye”
their inability to rationally defend their view probably does more to confirm Rashmi’s writings than defend their institution.
I won’t hire people who behave like this – would you?
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 9:04 pm
I just read the comment page at Youth Curry. Some very Hasty comments.
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
Thanks for taking up this issue. I have also posted on the same. Hoping that the Blogosphere will rally behind Gaurav and Rashmi and ensure that such scamsters are exposed.
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
akshay – hasty is an understatement.
hasty is when you write teh insetead of the
this is innuendo, falsehood, and outright lies.
kaps – i think that all these so called “fans” who defend their idols need to get a reality check
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 11:27 pm
Actually I meant Nasty, sorry for the misspelling
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on Oct 8th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
A regular blogger’s eye, (or even a blog reader’s eye) can easily tell that these slander-blogs have mushroomed as a knee jerk reaction to the expose by JAM. Something similar to Sun TV’s reaction and comments to the Park hotel issue in Chennai.The IIPM empty vessel is making so much noise and throwing muck around, but Bloggers are springwalls – the muck will only come back to IIPM and its campaigners. Nowhere,in their replies, do I see a believable defense against the points raised by JAM Magazine’s operation.
And, you must visit their website! It is one institute living on crutches – they need other established brands to support themselves. Pity.
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on Oct 9th, 2005 at 7:06 am
yes Harini, more than Rashmi’s post, the nature of the comments on her post speak for the quality lof students and the institute she writes about…
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on Oct 9th, 2005 at 7:46 am
[...] Please keep this issue alive and lend your support to Rashmi and Gaurav. Other bloggers who have already written about this : Harini, Kaps, Anshul, Press Talk, Walk with me [...]
on Oct 9th, 2005 at 8:35 am
[...] I, on behalf of DesiPundit, am blacklisting IIPM and their chamcha blogs (no links offered here). Kaps has issued a call to join the fight against IIPM. Harini, Srini, Charu, and Anshul have heeded the call. PressTalk exposes the false ranking claims by IIPM, The Arbit Council has a funny take on the exhorbitant consultancy fees demanded by IIPM director, Arindham C. [...]
on Oct 9th, 2005 at 9:06 am
akshay no issue. but it is quite amazing what one alphabet can make
Srini – it is completely ok to defend their ground. but this kind of obscenity makes you wonder about what or whom they are defending. sounds like one of the sidekick villain in Hindi films
Charu, tan vinaay tnaai sudum
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on Oct 9th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
IIPM is doing more damage to its image by such childish attacks than their full page ads.
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on Oct 9th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Gargi,
I agree
Their emotional and obscene defense goes to show that there is no logic in anything they are doing about the issue. This whole story could very well be a classic B School case study. What will you (the MBAs) if you institute is attacked ? And if this is how the top brass at IIPM reacts, I dont need to know how the rest will react. But,at the same time, I am sure there are many students who will agree with (and were waiting for) a expose like this!
Srini
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on Oct 10th, 2005 at 11:08 am
[...] If it were any less serious, I would have had a hearty laugh at IIPM’s response. But dude! Leaving obscene and lewd comments on somebody’s blog is not cool! Definitely off-limits. Don’t they teach you that at school? The blog-o-sphere is rankled. And pretty bad. Understandably so! Bloggers Charu, Kaps, Patrix, Harini and others have taken up the cudgels. And we will fight. Fight hard. And fair, which is not something IIPM understands. [...]
on Oct 10th, 2005 at 9:09 pm
[...] A lot of Indian blogs have been echoing this call for support. The latest development has been that Gaurav Sabnis has quit his job with IBM. He says – …I have resigned from IBM. The decision is entirely my own and I was not asked by IBM to resign, nor was I pressured in any manner by any executive from IBM. I took the decision in view of some really bizarre threats that were apparently made by IIPM to IBM… [...]
on Oct 11th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
What’s the big deal about what Rashmi wrote? It has been an open secret what IIPM has been upto all these years. She has just brought it out in the open.
I know quite a few students of IIPM personally who have told me what Rashmi has written many months back. Frankly, most of the ex-IIPM students I know are pretty shady with the exceptions of a few who are not shady ‘coz of their own character not ‘coz of Arindam Choudhary.
And I couldn’t agree more on your point of the kind of students IIPM is turning out. I mean imagine if they were Corp Comm Managers or working in PR companies and they were to handle a sticky situation like this. If this is the kind of reaction they have then I don’t know how long they can hang on to their jobs.
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on Oct 14th, 2005 at 8:49 pm
[...] Update 1: Others joining the issue: Harini, Srini, Charu, Anshul, Amrit, Muthuvel, Thalassa Mikra, Jagan, Vijay Krishna, Vatsan, Jo, Varna, Swaroop CH, Shivam, Ash, Abi, Jujitsu, Uma, Shub, Rajan, Havoc, Abhishek, Chandrachoodan, Kaushik, Alpha-Q, Mandar, Kaushal, Chenthil, Anthony, Bonatellis, Apurv, Scudie, Sriyansa, Miss J, Neha, Tablepost, Chitthacharcha, Saket, Dhananjay, Sriram, The Comic Project, Gawker, Nilu, Ian, Jabberwock, Niket, Ravikiran, Hitchiker, Vinaya. [Got this list via Desipundit and will keep updating it.] [...]
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on Oct 26th, 2005 at 7:49 am
Really stupid of IIPM to pursue this matter to this extent! Hope Gaurav good luck!
My supporting entry at http://www.desihub.com/blog/page/mihir/20051013#indian_blogosphere_heating_up
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on Nov 17th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
IIPM publishes such big full page adv….but has anyone tried to read what is written at the bottom of the ads in small letters,,,,,,Very few ppl who have carefully read this must have observed that IIPM is not recognised by any educational body of India,,,,,
Can mr arindam choudhury throw some light on this, pls????
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