IIPM and its bunch of fake, lewd bloggers
Rashmi Bansal is a long time blogger, a respected voice in the Blogosphere and is also editor of the magazine JAM. Jam is devoted to student issues and has a regular feature that analyses and reviews B-Schools. As part of that series, JAM published an expose on the Indian Institute of Planning and Management.
Now, anybody with half a brain can see through the fraud that is IIPM. Their sickeningly cluttered ads (too much text in an ad will ensure it doesn’t get read, which is a good thing really) claim campuses with a mix of old-english architecture and modern skyscrapers. Fucking lies. I was offered a seat in their Chennai campus, a blue and purple monstrosity that doesn’t have enough parking space for three bikes.
Needless to say, the dimwits at IIPM took to JAM Mag’s expose badly. They first threatened Gaurav Sabnis with a law-suit. And how! A e-mail that’s “judicially notarized and has been tagged to validate receipt and response” claiming damages to the tune of 125 crores. They didn’t stop at that. Being the dimwits they are, resorted to cheap name-calling and derogative commenting on Rashmi’s Blog. From fake blogs that didn’t exist y’day.
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.
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October 10th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
IIPM Blog Wars Redux
This time it is personal. Rashmi Bansal, JAM editor and a popular blogger has been attacked by so-called IIPM graduates (see comments). [hat tip: Charu]
We at DesiPundit condemn IIPM and their chamcha blogs (no links offered here) for their despicab…
October 10th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
hey, nice post, Sir. Keep it up. Good to hear you’re doing okay in Hyd. Stay in the loop. Avi
October 10th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
It thus pays to “Count ur unlucky stars before u resort to one-whole-page advertising”.
October 11th, 2005 at 3:42 am
things hve taken a new twist. check out gaurav’s blog for details.
October 11th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
[...] other bloggers takingup the cause: 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, 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), Ranjan Kant, BigBlogLog, Kamesh, Transmogrifier, Chernoff, Varun (Part 3), Hitanshu, Srikar, Rajkumar [...]
October 12th, 2005 at 4:44 am
I think that the media should be informed about all this. I think they are unaware because no one has written about it till now. So, I compiled a list of editors and it would be good if you mailed them too. You can find the list here.
October 14th, 2005 at 9:25 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.] [...]
March 29th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
IIPM is just bullshit. it fakes about itself and it shows a lot which it is actually not. KOI MARKETING KARNA HIA THO ARINDHAM SE SEEKHE.
PLEASE DO NOT JOIN IIPM UNLESS UR REJECTED FROM ICFAI
March 29th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
IIPM is not going to have a long life im sure about it.
July 26th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
[...] P.S.: Here is a list of blogs, each of which should immediately post a Thank you message to Mr. Chaudhuri Harini Calamur, Press Talk, Varun’s Thoughtful Chaos, Srini, The Arbit Council, DesiPundit, Anshul, Charu, Patrix, Muthuvel, Thalassa Mikra, Jagan, 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 [...]
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Peace people
We love you
December 15th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
August 28th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
IIPM the name itself has a bad reputation, wonder why whats happening to Delhites!! A money making institute challenges IIM yeah? someone has that guts!!
well an institute who pays maximum for his ads proves his need for recognition and of course brand like IIM does not need any front page ads.
So now having said all that IIPM sues all of us for writing this.