Please sign this petition against IIT’s continuing collaboration with DOW. Got this email from Harsh, who got it from another friend in IITK.
“Students of Bhopal came to know of this conference sponsorship by DOW. They tried to get in touch with IITK and student body to screen their documentary on Bhopal Gas Tragedy history and current conditions. After being ignored for some time, they finally got an invitation. They were given a very short notice. The poor people had to rush. The SFS movie poster was a low-key one, put up for just one day before the screening, no publicity whatsoever. Only 40 students turned up. And the best part, the smart ass SFS secy censors the movie, telling the person responsible for screening that at no time in the movie should the word DOW appear. Can you guys believe that. And then he puts the condition that there will be no post-discussion!! fuck who is he to say that. The Indian Govt and State Courts have no problem in using its name, giving it the summons and so on. Its not like Voldemort or whatever the Harry Potter villains name is. And here is a kiss-ass 3rd yr student who thinks he has better chances of getting a job in DOW if he censors the movie. ok ok that was taking it too far. The DOSA also made it clear that there would be no post-discussion. Whatever happened to free speech, whatever happened to character, whatever happened to self-respect and fairness.”
ps: SFS = Student Film Society, IIT Kanpur; DOSA = Dean Of Student Affairs
2 responses so far ↓
1 Karthik Rao Cavale // Nov 11, 2007 at 5:19 am
You will perhaps be interested to know that similar activities are going on in almost all IITs as Dow chemicals has courted the management in all these institutions and might recruit students on-campus in a couple of IITs.
In IIT Madras, we are doing our level best to get Dow disbarred by the institute, failing which we will target the students.
2 DOW and IITK at Blogbharti // Nov 13, 2007 at 7:35 pm
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