Wednesday, October 12, 2005

War Against Bloggers

A serious incident has recently grabbed international attention amongst bloggers. A private MBA institue in India has started harrassing eminent and well known Indian bloggers, Rashmi Bansal and Gaurav Sabnis for their posts. Rashmi Bansal has done a serious attempt to expose the false claims made by this institute in her monthly youth magazine JAM. Gaurav Sabnis has posted to bring out the fine prints in the tall claims made by this institute. I wont even write the name of this institute or post any of its link. They have served legal notices to these two people and Varna alleging that these guys are defaming their prestigious institute (another false claim). Within a few days, lots of fake blogs have come up with only one post against Rashmi and Gaurav. Gaurav Sabnis has resigned from his job. For a detailed and regularly updated post on this war between a rogue institute using its money and influence and eminent bloggers using their faith in freedom of speech, please go to DesiPundit and support the bloggers.

4 comments:

DK said...

thank you for the heads up!! i definitely don't like the way this seems to be going...also i appreciate your pointing the way to be able to follow what's happening

Anon said...

hey kanishk;
nice of you to do to create awareness abt rashmi's plight.But knowing rashmi,she'll come out of it with utmost grace

Anonymous said...

Wow..interesting stuff..and I know that there have been a few stories of ppl getting fired because of their blog..whatever happened to freedom of speech?

Nidhi Rastogi said...

it's an outrageous act..seems like these people had nothin better to do ..or mebbe they wantd sm fame in their life by piggybacking on the good reputation Rashmi and Gaurav have garnered in all these months..But as they say..gud ppl have to go thru many tough phases in their life..juss to make them tougher..so all the best to Rashmi and Gaurrav..juss have faith on ur integrity..u'll come out of it with flying colors