The rubicon crossed, IIPM fails to manage the controversy
Date 11, October, 2005 | Topic: Liberty & Rights
| IIPM is fair game now. Gaurav Sabnis has resigned his job at IBM/Lenovo owing to the fallout from the IIPM fiasco.
Expect every Indian blogger worth his salt to write about IIPM. They will soon have their hands full. How many lawsuits do they expect to send? Do they seriously think they can stiffen the voice of hundreds if not thousands? At this very moment, the word is spreading by e-mails, yahoo groups, mailing lists and so on.
Already, technorati search results have reached 11 pages and counting.
The battlelines have been drawn. This issue was a big test for public relations management of IIPM from the point when JAM published their article. They utterly screwed up when they threatened Gaurav Sabnis with a legal notice. And now, the matter has reached a point of no return after Gaurav was coerced to resign.
If IIPM thinks that this will be the end of this matter, well, things have taken a momentum of their own. It won't be long before the main stream media will have to take notice.
Students at IIPM will have to talk to their management and restrain them from causing any more damage. They need to act coherently, responsivily. The ad hominem attacks against against Rashmi Bansal will tilt the public opinion wihtout Rashmi having to say a single word in her defense. The students need to realise that they stand to loose the most.
The advertisements of IIPM are in public domain. Anybody and everybody reserves the right to comment on them, as long they are opinions.
I know how this is going to end. Only sorry for the students though.
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