A few months ago, three hundred students sacrificed admits to Ivy League b-schools like Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago and Stanford. Because they had just realised their life’s dream and ambition. They were heading to India… to study in the world’s numero uno institute. They were all armed with admits to the IIPM. Yeah, that’s right. Didn’t you hear that India had finally arrived? And all because of one man…
A series of ‘blogs’ (3 created two days ago and 7 created one day ago) have sprouted up, extolling the virtues of studying at IIPM. They are named:
The last of these, as can be guessed, claims to be the real thing. However, given the long and time-honoured (read dubious) record of IIPM, such things aren’t very surprising, eh? This kind of institutional splogging shows them in very bad light (which they already are in). What kind of institute would they be, and how can anyone entrust their future with these people? Is this part of Mr. Arbit, er… Arindam Choudhury’s great Indian dream? A few hundred blogs in praise of his two-bit institute, that cannot stand up to one bit of criticism?
Our support might not count for much. But for whatever it amounts to, let us side with Gaurav… the real one!
And as always, to Hell with splogs!
P.S.: Kaps has put up a list of blogs with similar reactions. I’m (shamelessly) copying that list here. Harini Calamur, Press Talk, Varun’s Thoughtful Chaos, Srini, The Arbit Council, DesiPundit, Anshul, Charu, Patrix, Muthuvel, Thalassa Mikra, Jagan, Vatsan, Mridula, Jo
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October 9th, 2005 at 4:04 pm
Whenvever I see the IIPM ads in the newspaper, I remember the Kungumam ad on Sun TV. The latter tells pseudo-truths in a highly exaggerated way while the former tells true lies in an utmost earnest way.
—uippchz—
October 9th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
I agree. The IIPM empty vessel is making a lot of noise now. I have linked this post in my blog.
October 9th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Thanks for your support.
October 9th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
All for a noble cause…
October 9th, 2005 at 8:52 pm
IIPM should be be shut down. I came across http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.c.....-iipm.html long ago and I emailed to people.
Good job VK. I will e-mail a link to this post as well.
October 9th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
no problem with the copying part. i just wanted to show the different voices which condemn the baseless personal attacks. This is to prove them that all of us feel strongly about this development.
October 9th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
bigger and more frequent the ad(even hero honda and bajaj resort to one-full-page ads)lesser the quality.
October 10th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Hey Vijay,
Thanks for that comment on my blog. That’s a very neat way of looking at things — “recognising” Arindam Chaudhuri’s contribution in bringing the blogging community in India together.
Guess what? If he were to read this, he might just get it inculded in an IIPM ad or get his institute to award him a blogging gold medal.