Is the big brother watching
In just about 4 hours in putting my post on IIPM PM of Japan Mr. Junichiro Koizumi received a collect call from India from "Mgmt Guru".
The call conveyed the short & swift message to direct the PM to ask one of the bigger company's smaller Indian operation to gag its lowly paid employee for some "stupid" comments on blog.
the call ended with threat of relasing RKSKTL in JAPAN and also full page ad of his new Kyoto & Tokyo campus of his IIM(P) in all Japanese newspaper in FULL COLOUR & FULL PAGE.
Undersatnding the gravity the needful has been done by Japanese PM and now i must go underground or else BIG BROTHER is watching
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
COZ TRUTH MUST PREVAIL
Blog world is abuzz with IIPM Vs Truth "Fight to the finish".
The background is two bloggers Rashmi Bansal & Gaurav Sabnis exposed the so called Management guru- Arindam "pony tail" Chowdhuri & his famous "TOI Full page ad" IIPM.
IIPM responded true to its class not by denouncing bloggers claims but putting more bogus claim about a "AAJ TAK" story in which Rashmi Bansal is taking money from AMITY to denounce IIPM.
Next wave came in forms of Mental retard "students" of IIPM posting true to their worth comment on rashmi's blog putting all kind of crap doubting the identity,sexual preference etc.
then they setup fake blog denouncing the claims and one even claiming to be "real Gaurav".
Now Gaurav's employee IBM was asked to "pressurize" Gaurav to remove content from his blog else IIPM student will burn LAPTOP.( way to go guys).
Then the Happening of the Day - Gaurav Sabnis resigned from IBM. This guy actually did what he believed in.
It is very easy to say one thing but very hard to walk the talk. With impersonal blog it would have been easy for Gaurav to just delete the whole blog if necessary and carry on with his life.After all he has nothing to do with IIPM or Mr.Poneytail
Although have not met Gaurav personally but i know him through Quizzing faternity of Pune and through a common friend but after what he did would acatually like to shake hands with him.
As he did what he actually belived in. hats off to you Gaurav!!
To IIPM & Mr. Pony Tail- This guy has left his job to prove what he beileves what truth is. Can we expect same decency from your side?
I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death
your right to say it. - Voltaire
Monday, October 10, 2005
Old songs Reduex
Two recent ads have used old and forgotten Hindi movie songs to great effect
1) The Radio mirchi- "Accident Ad"- two guys bang their car and instead of breaking in to obscenities break into song and dance . The song aptly used is from movie Collie and the song is "Accident ho gaya rabba rabba".
Nice mix of song and situation and then the punchline "mirchi sunnawale always khush".
Even ad dekhne wale bhi khush.
2)Recent Bajaj ad with beaustiful Kabhi Kabhi trek "tere chere se najar hathi". Nice song placement but the ad looked too far fetched.
However the use of these songs which we know so well in new places makes " my dil goes hmmmmmmmmmm"!!!
Two recent ads have used old and forgotten Hindi movie songs to great effect
1) The Radio mirchi- "Accident Ad"- two guys bang their car and instead of breaking in to obscenities break into song and dance . The song aptly used is from movie Collie and the song is "Accident ho gaya rabba rabba".
Nice mix of song and situation and then the punchline "mirchi sunnawale always khush".
Even ad dekhne wale bhi khush.
2)Recent Bajaj ad with beaustiful Kabhi Kabhi trek "tere chere se najar hathi". Nice song placement but the ad looked too far fetched.
However the use of these songs which we know so well in new places makes " my dil goes hmmmmmmmmmm"!!!
Zingoism - NAAHH!!!!
POST SCRIPT: This Mail was attributed to "MR.Vijay Kranti Dean - IIT Madras" However it turned to be a hoax. However the views hold good still
In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of
Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?).
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much
so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri
went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe
one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I
joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the
fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food.
Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt,
I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in
Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two
plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to
fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA,
and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of
the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"
POST SCRIPT: This Mail was attributed to "MR.Vijay Kranti Dean - IIT Madras" However it turned to be a hoax. However the views hold good still
In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of
Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?).
For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much
so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri
went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe
one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I
joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the
fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food.
Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt,
I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.
It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in
Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two
plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to
fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA,
and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of
the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"
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