Google’s YouTube video embarrasses IIM girls
By Sunil Sharma
 
A video on YouTube is turning out to be an embarrassment for Indian girls from a top business school. The video shows students from IIM Calcutta ‘welcoming’ the XLRI Jamshedpur team coming for their inter institute sports meet. The girls from IIM use language that would make a thug from Gurgaon blush.  A look at the video shows that this does not seem to be a spontaneous act but part of a well rehearsed script executed nicely.

The only point of contention is that somebody took the effort of recording and uploading it on YouTube.
 
When YouTube was created in 2005 by three former PayPal employees, little would have they thought that it will come to be a tool that captures youthful indiscretions forever and ever. A quick search on YouTube reveals the variety of video content that has been uploaded by careless Indian youths for viewing and sharing. YouTube, now a part of Google, forbids the uploading of material likely to be considered inappropriate or defamatory. But this is mostly followed on the contrary as videos are put up recklessly.
 
This video is a good example of how small incidents can go beyond the four walls of an institution and mar the image of the place and the participants. At the time of writing this snippet, over 4,500 people have already watched this video on YouTube. These women are going to regret this for a lifetime!  Techgoss feels that the young girls were ‘coached’ by their seniors to say and behave that way, as such language does not come naturally to Indian women.  Techgoss feels that even politicians Mayawati and Jayalalitha would disapprove of such language. All a bit silly, but such youthful indiscretions will haunt them forever.
 
This video has been widely discussed in several blogs and forums. The juvenile behaviour of these girls who aim to get into the crème de la crème of Business organisations has been ruthlessly criticised. But surprisingly IIM Calcutta's Dean of Programmes and Initiatives Prof Saibal Chattopadhyaya was more concerned if the college computers were misused to upload the video rather than the misdeeds of his students. He choose to distance himself from the video when asked to comment on the demeaning campus culture within IIM Calcutta which has stooped to its lowest. Irrespective of what happens now of this video, we can just hope that people would behave maturely in the public domain. And those silly ragging traditions will stop. Remember, somebody is always watching you!

Techgoss note:  You can watch the video at this link.  Please ensure you do not watch it in the company of minors.  Or managers at work.