Reported by Ahmedabad. Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have accepted for once and for all that one needed to dare think beyond the IIMs to get into IIPM. This lays down an end to the controversy that started a few years back after some bloggers disputed IIPM’s claims in its advertisements, which has the famous tagline “dare to think beyond the IIMs”. IIMs will come out with full page print advertisements in the coming days accepting that IIPM was beyond the IIMs.
“We have never published any full page advertisement in any newspaper, but due to this being a matter of national importance, we have decided to issue full page color advertisements that would clarify our stand. We are no match to IIPM and there can’t be any comparison at all. At a time when we were worried about placing our students due to recession, IIPM was planning parties for their students with Shahrukh Khan. They are really special while we are just another government institute.” IIM Ahmedabad director Sameer Barua said.
"he he he" - Arindam Chaudhuri
IIM directors took this decision when they met earlier today to discuss the issues like pay hikes, fee hikes and more autonomy for the institutes. IIM Ahmedabad had already given the Human Resource Ministry a one-month ultimatum to accept its demand for world-class pay for the faculty members. IIM directors concluded that they would need to fight a long drawn battle with the government to get their demands accepted, and in order to fight this battle, they must close all other contentious issues to conserve energy and focus.
“We hope IIPM will now stop publishing ads claiming the obvious. There is no point if Pizza Hut comes up with a full page advertisement announcing that they have pizzas in their store. I hope ours would be the last full page advertisement in newspapers containing the name of IIMs.” IIM Indore director Ravi Chandran said.
IIPM founder and director Arindam Chaudhuri has welcomed the decision of IIMs and called it ‘historic’, although he didn’t guarantee that IIPM will stop using the tagline “dare to think beyond the IIMs”. He demanded that all the bloggers who had earlier cast aspersions on IIPM should be put behind bars now.
But IIMs may run into trouble for issuing full page color advertisements at a time when the government was championing austerity in public life. Experts warn that the move could further strain the relations between the premier institutes and the government. Experts have suggested the IIMs to either wait for four more days if it was too urgent, or a little less than three months to be absolutely safe.
“The message that IIPM was beyond IIMs could be embedded in the birthday greetings of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that falls on the 26th September. The IIMs could issue full page greetings with the embedded message to wish the PM a happy birthday. They may escape the government fury this way, but to be absolutely on the safer side, I’d advise them to wait till 9th December, which is the birthday of Sonia Gandhi.” Biju Bijaikar, an independent consultant and expert on various issues, suggested.
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I completed my MBA from Whaton..but honstly speaking what I got there was nothing compared to what IIPM gave me. It gave me a job, money but most importantly it gave me self respect.
lolol what a jackass man. we get that you are trying to defend a sad institute. this attempt just makes it look sadder. tsk tsk.
You went to Wharton and then proceeded to forget how to spell it? Must be the emotional trauma of separation from IIPM.
(Unless of course.. ‘What’on is where they ask you dream beyond Wharton.. in which case.. its my bad.
lol!! good one
hi mr.arindam choudhuri..
Is this pagal patrakaar ??
I loved this part – “like Pizza hut advertising it has pizza in its store..”
iipm very much overhyped…..
it shows money can be used to buy medias as a whole!!!
all below 50 percentile are welcomed wid red carpet in there and will still claim “Think beyond IIMS”…
alert(’sex ma*arc*od’)
failed attempt dude
yes, i agree with IIMs, atleast after their official statement, we could read some news on last page of newspaper, and not some blue colour ad offering u a free laptop on admission…
totally agree wid u!
I wish to laugh on this whole issue. That whole advertisement would be a joke for IIPM. I think readers can well understand its meaning!
hillarious point
“There is no point if Pizza Hut comes up with a full page advertisement announcing that they have pizzas in their store.”
Hi, At last all IIMs now agree that IIPM is a great institue with a respected (read self-publicized, self-promoted) Director/CEO/Owner/Founder/MD/CTO/President etc. Mr. Arindam Chaudhary. I am proud to do MBA from IIPM. it gave me a free laptop (how many institutes give you a free laptop on admission ???) and a world-class international placement of 0.75 LPA (that too CTC) in India. Fees is a all time low, around 10 lakhs per semester + mess, hostel and tuition fees.
I think the only thing left, now that the whole IIPM & IIM issue is sorted, is for Karnal University to come up with the following tag line-
“Dare to think beyond Cornell..”
this is too funny.. i just cant get over it.. lol…