IIPM and the Indian Blogosphere
But apparently, the Dean of IIPM wrote him a mail saying that the IIPM Students Union had decided that if my blog posts were not deleted, then they would gather all the Thinkpads they had been given by the institute, and burn them in front of the IBM office in Delhi. Yes, that’s right. Burn laptops!
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Rather than delete his post - not that IBM wanted to - Gaurav Sabnis quit his job with IBM.
There is a quick summary of the issues involved here - basically Gaurav linked to a story which pointed out that IIPM (a private Indian university) was not telling the truth in its advertising. Legal letters were sent. Rather than expose IBM to the silliness of having laptops burned in front of its office, Gaurav quit.
There are moments in a national blogosphere which create a sense of community. I suspect this may be one of those for India. Pop over to Gaurav’s blog, vantage point, and lend support. The world’s watching and all that.
Written by jay on October 12th, 2005 with no comments.
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