Sarvshwet, You should also ask that to everyone who’s reposting the story across Twitterland and Blogosphere. It is normal to repost information of interest on the Internet as long as the source has had a credible track record. This is really between you and Jam-mag. Train your guns at the source of the attack, not to those who are talking about the attack.

@diablo – you should really be taking all these issues to Jam-mag. It would be a miscalculation on your part to think that had we not written about it, the story wouldn’t reach more people. Like I said, don’t shoot the messenger, it won’t lead you to what you might be looking for.

http://www.allindia.com/html/about-us/our-management.asp
“An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and MS from Case Western Reserve University, USA”
Not a PhD.
The company in the above link is indeed the Webmaster of the IIM Shillong website, as can be verified by visiting http://www.iimshillong.in and looking at the footer left side.

@Akshay – part of job .

Some people here think that PG should only tell them nice hunky dory stuff that they want to hear about good b-schools to reinforce their belief in their MBA prep. But at PG, we’ll present the darker side of b-schools too along with the nice things that we write about them in their placement reports, b-school roundups and Backpacker stories. It’s kind of strange, how anxiously these people lap up the totally inflated and non-transparent placement reports of various b-schools without even once asking for ‘proof’, while they will rain down on the smallest whiff of negative on the same institutions. According to me, these fudged PR articles from b-schools are doing them greater harm than the negative stories. It’s strange self-defeating behaviour, considering that a rational approach would be to know as much as possible in order to take an informed decision. Like everything else, b-schools aren’t black or white. Not even the best b-schools are all-white.

As for the constant question on the credibility of PG, it’s an old scratched record played by people with self-serving motives and short-sighted vision. “PG has lost credibility” is something we have been hearing since 2002, when many of the angry posters here were in school and did not even know the full-form of MBA. It’s been what, like seven years since then? We at PG do not put anything out here until we are more than convinced of the credibility of the source. Before putting anything on this blog, we have huge amounts of debate within our team with plenty of people playing devil’s advocates. We have enough top b-schoolers in our own team and are constantly in touch with the PG oldies junta for consulting on everything we put here. You’d be flabbergasted at the massive amounts of dark secrets of b-schools that we DO NOT put out here because it does not pass our checks and balances. Our job is to inform people, but it is upto the people to use that information to take the right decisions for themselves OR delude themselves in the rhetoric of all that is easy on the eyes and ears.

I wonder why the IP address of ^ephemeralsoul^ matches that of sarvshwet and diablorulez, both students of IIMS. I mean from his post it appears he is an ‘outsider’ friend of some people in IIMS.

@sumitrocks – quite possible. Flights going to NE have been reported as jam packed owing to ‘friends’ who now want to visit IIMS in order to unearth the truth .

@nishantvdo – yes we stand by them. PG rankings are based on YOUR perception. It’s not like we create the rankings. Maybe you should study the methodology.

@shoaibmohamed – there are some flaws in your argument.

You assume that people have no intelligence of their own and dictate their lives on the basis of articles they read on websites. But actually, they patiently wait for issues to shape up and do not take decisions until they have conclusively listened to all viewpoints from multiple sources. Now if you are the special type who takes their educational decisions on the basis of singular articles on one website, you are only implying that you do not think for yourself and hence only have yourself to blame for it.

2ndly, Both the Jam-mag and Business Standard articles look like fairly well-researched pieces of journalism. Facts when corroborated by multiple sources qualify for a news story. Both the sources of Jam-mag and BS agree on a large number of issues raised about the problems in the articles. How much of it is true, only time will tell. But at this point, they have enough meat to deserve consideration and an audience. We at PG are doing our duty by informing you what prominent voices in the media are saying about IIMS. What exactly is your problem with that? Would you rather not that things be transparent and people know what’s going on?

And “PG could’ve taken a step ahead and verified with students there” is amusing. As if students in any b-school are going to admit to a problem in their school to a media at the cost of bad PR that might affect their placements, etc. How innocent.

Assuming that the issues stated in the articles are indeed true, that doesn’t make IIMS a bad school to join. IIMS may not be a top b-school now but might get there in a few years time once it gets over obstacles such as the one in the article. But if it has problems, they need to be pointed out.