October 13, 2005
IIPM
I am sure many of you have been following these ridiculous events revolving around a management institution, called Indian Institute of Planning and Management.
This episode goes like this...
- IIPm's false advertising,
- an article in a web-based magazine, exposing the fraud,
- a post made by a popular blogger about that article on his personal blog,
- IIPM threatening to sue him and others,
- IIPM threatening to unnecessarily put the blogger's employer in the middle of all this,
- popular blogger resigning from the company.
Don't know what IIPM has gained from this episode other than bad publicity, which it seems that they deserve. I think they should have come out defending themselves against all the allegations with facts and not lawsuits. If they had facts on their side, they wouldn't have reacted the way they did. Seems like a lot of people are unhappy with IIPM and have written about it.
All this lawsuits for defamation is a load of crap. If one is not free to express their opinion, they might as well live in communist China. As Kiruba mentions in his post, at this rate, the whole Bollywood should be after me with lawsuits for writing bad reviews for many Hindi movies over the last year or two.
Kudos to Gaurav Sabnis for standing up for his views on his blog.
Posted by Parag at October 13, 2005 01:45 PM
yep I read about it just yesterday! I think he has given a fitting reply to IIPM.. THe webbased mag is JamMAg, you know that anywyas!!
Posted by: deven at October 13, 2005 05:05 PMGaurav leaving a job for this is just unbelievable. That is just not right but definitely kudos to him for standing up for what he believes in.
I think in india a lot of MBA institutions do this as they are private institutions and dont need any accredition or university affiliation to prove there real worth. It is just that the accredited institutions are so few in number compared to the number of students who are trying to get in. Students do not get jobs forget about good jobs after doing there bachelors degrees that they need to get bigger if not better degrees just to get a job. The situation now may be a little better jobwise but still. I thinkthe only way to get students to there institutions and justify the exhorbitant fees they charge or even for recruiters to come to there these institutions use these aweful tactics. This is just not right for people like Gaurav who slog there asses to get into a school IIM.
