IIM-C XLRI Campus Video: How social media can get eggs on your face…
Disclaimer: Please view this video with discretion as it contains explicit content
This amateur video was forwarded to me some time back via an agitated email from a student of XLRI Jamshedpur asking me to publish it on my blog to ‘expose’ the indiscretions of their IIM-C counterparts. I have been debating whether or not to publish it, for it is clearly provocative and also because I was unsure of its veracity. I am choosing to do so now after reading this post on Pagalguy. Without getting into the moralistic debate behind such behavior, I think this video is a good example of how the internet is going to force people to behave responsibly in the public domain. These women are going to regret this for a lifetime!
The video shows women students from IIM Calcutta ‘welcoming’ the XLRI Jamshedpur team for an inter institute competition. Apparently this is not spontaneous but part of a well rehearsed script. Whats surprising about the video is not that it happened, but the fact that it did as publicly as it did.
Needless to say this seems to have sparked off a furore in the MBA blogs & forums. Wonder what the IIMC management has to say about this?
Deepak on Jul 24, 2008
Relating this incident to some social media phenomenon, seems to me that you are trying to hard!
C’mon, why dont you just admit that you wanted to post this video to titillate yourself. Or maybe you are running out of things to post about.
Himanshu on Jul 24, 2008
Webyantra was supposed to be the Techcrunch of India. I am quite disappointed to see this here. More so the fact that you have approved “random”’s comment without any verification.
You have lost one reader.
Ashish Tulsian on Jul 24, 2008
This is something…amazing (shocking)
it took me sometime to realize what actually are these girls shouting, that too out in open. i am in my office right now and the speaker volume was quite high when i played the video and i had to mute it as soon as i realized what did i just play.(embarrassed…thinking did someone hear that
)
I dont’ know what to say bout this though, coz recently i came across people in different media agencies and have seen them abusing each other mindlessly in front of anyone and everyone (amazingly in my observation i saw this kinda behavior with more of girls then guyz)
its not such a big issue to me as its more of someone’s personal choice on ‘how to behave’ but still i think decency is one of the elements which separates educated and Grey celled people from others.
still they wanna be like rowdy people.
am amazed y?
Amit Ranjan on Jul 24, 2008
ashish,
based on your comment I have taken out the embed from the post… the volume is jarringly loud
Deepak, himnshu… point taken… you reaction is not lost on me
and btw, the commnents on this blog are not moderated unless they have more than two links which is a wordpress default.
Prashant Singh on Jul 24, 2008
@Himanshu : He has no way to verify that the video was actually of IIMC it could have been delhi,hissar or cherapunji so does that mean he should stop reporting that too. the discussion on Pagalguy was enough to make a point that such video [ NOTE : video not event, that is sharing and reach of content , not the content it self f] is still an exception here [Note :I am not saying good or BAD i am saying its not the norm ].
now whether this video fits in scope of WebYantra . well such stuff will shape how society prepare/ adopt/protect them self to explosion of social media . such change always offer some opportunity.I as a long time reader of webyantra would like to know about it .
Moral aspect of such things are best not discussed ..these discussion always turns into flamewars . If they were not forced to do this than We should respect the right of these ladies to exercise freedom of speech .
and if it was part of a ragging drill than its upto authorities to judge that .
Finally as far as tech crunch of India is concern well TC is far ahead on CRAP counts than Webyantra . what make them useful is the fact that they do a lot of it , they do it full time and they are in hub of web2.0 activity .
Amit on Jul 24, 2008
You did have the guts to post the video on its own, you could have done the research on your own and since now PaGaLGuY has done it; you had all the proofs with u to post it.
This is the post disgusting act of cowardice I have ever witnessed.
Nilesh on Jul 26, 2008
well well…
Amit, I suggest marking the post title as “NSFW” in future - which stands for “Not Safe for Work”. That’s the standard way to go about it whenever your audience includes people browsing at work. It might save many people’s jobs !
Anyway, I think you should ignore users (after a point) who try to tell you what to post and what not to post. It is your blog and and you do not have the obligation of asking before posting. Keep on posting!
Amit on Jul 26, 2008
Nilesh,
It is NOT my blog and I did not ask for any obligation…or am I missing some point which you are trying to make
:)
Nilesh on Jul 27, 2008
I was talking about Deepak and Himanshu’s comments. Their comments implied that you’re somehow obliged to ask the readers before posting anything. I, on the other hand am perfectly all right with Webyantra being a “blog”.
Piyush on Jul 27, 2008
First of all I think some frustrated people (read who could not make it to IIMs) are trying to make a huge issue out of it. This is a culture thing at that specific college and it is nothing to be debated about. Weird things like this exists in every college’s culture. Somewhere it is inter hostel rivalry, somewhere inter college but one thing is common that it is all in good spirit(even though language is not that good) and mostly there to ease out pressure from regular academic routine. I don’t think one should expect parliamentary language discussions at colleges.
And second, I think this blog post is something not expected from you. In my view you are trying to get cheap publicity which is disheartening.
druggie on Jul 28, 2008
Webyantra - is a tech blog that profiles Indian web products & services. It is ‘ground zero’ for Indian web startups, ecommerce websites and internet based businesses….
So tell me again…..how did this fit in to the above definition? Because I seem to be missing the point somewhere..
Sumedh on Aug 1, 2008
1. I think this kind of language is pretty common in college life…it’s just that it has been captured on video very few times…and it’s a little “buzz” creating because these are gals and not boys…as they say in one ad, why should boys have all the fun? hahaha…
2. I think yes, this is kind of a distraction from focus of the blog…but hey, a change is good sometimes…as long as the frequency of such posts is not too high…right?