Comments on: Legitimate force (updated)

By: shadowz

shadowz — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:19:27 +0000

Hello, whats with bashing saffronites. Dont you have so called secularites doing the same thing. Ohh come on, bombing temples and issueing death threats isnt secularism, if you havent realized that till now. Go ahead flame me..

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:50:27 +0000

It's gonna be interesting to see how this unfolds - 50 million ad budget vs a few hundred bloggers.

I have not seen a more concerted effort among Indian (origin) bloggers, but I am kinda of skeptical about what we can do on this.

By: DesiDudeInAustin

DesiDudeInAustin — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:52:50 +0000

Manish, if I were you, I’d be worried sick about getting a legal notice and prepare to flee the country. Oh wait. You are going to Canada

By: Manish Vij

Manish Vij — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:30:09 +0000

It's more than two bloggers-- now they're just emailing laughably-worded, empty threats to anyone they find on Technorati.

Pathetic.

By: MoorNam

MoorNam — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:58:34 +0000

After reading about this in blogosphere, I could gather this much: IIPM is a IIM-wannabe that has very little to show for itself. Too much gloss, too little substance. Management does not seem to be professional. They sugar-coat everything about themselves.

If they had any PR common sense, they would have responded with: "We don't comment on insinuations on blogs." and cut their losses. But Nooooo... they wanted to attack two people(Rashmi and Gaurav) on a personal basis and invite wrath upon themselves.

I do feel sorry for its existing students.

M. Nam

By: Vick

Vick — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:13:12 +0000

TTG i think there is huge difference in Indians and Indian govt. approach to foriegn companies now and in 70′s when IBM was kicked out. These days its the IBMs which are providing jobs to Indians. In those it was percieved that IBMs are shipping away Indian wealth a la East India Company.

By: TTG

TTG — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:33:13 +0000

Hey, I think it’s unfair to badmouth IBM in this case – the fact that they didn’t immediately fire Gaurav, and were more than willing to listen to him goes in their favour. Let’s face it, IBM is a “foreign” company on Indian soil. It’s been kicked out once before. It really has nothing to do with this whole thing. Once the MSM gets hold of this, the only things mentioned will be IIPM, IBM, and IBM Employee resigns not hobbyist blogger working for IBM resigns. Nobody is going to stop to read the facts. It’ll easily become IBM vs IIPM. Further, IBM standing up to IIPM could so easily be painted as “foreign interference”. Sad but true fact – most multinationals have to tread lightly in this regard. Again, what goes in their favour is that they didn’t fire Gaurav. I’m pretty sure that the Indian Software company I’m working would have wanted to totally wash its hand of the affair and would have given Gaurav the pink slip, no questions, dialogue or options.

By: Vick

Vick — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:59:54 +0000

I think there was a major difference btn boycotting the Radio Station and IBM in this case. IBM was not directly involved in all this mess while the Radio station was. IIPM would have been well within their rights if they had boycotted JAM though.

By: abhishek

abhishek — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:42:29 +0000

they are just another degree factory, only they have grown out of proportions… it would be very hard to nip them since they have acquired quite a lot by bleeding the poor students dry…

By: MoorNam

MoorNam — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:29:15 +0000

ItÂ’s like the saffronist goon squads who intimidate local candidates and fix elections.

Unlike the secularists, communists, Akalis, Muslim League, Dravida parties who play completely fair and abide by the rules of democracy.

Sorry - could not resist the urge.

M. Nam