Though I am in no way more connected to IIMK than Mr Palety is, I can't help but feeling that while his statistics may be correct, his conclusions aren't. Palety is pointing fingers in the wrong direction. What he construes as a mistake, is part of a definite objective on the part of the government to improve second-tier cities. Yes, none of the big IIMs have made significant economic or social contributions to their cities. But this is exactly where IIM K was designed to be different from its other brethren. IIMK was setup by the government with an idea to transform Kozhikode. It has not been wildly successful in this regard, but it has not failed miserably either. Only time will tell if the Kozhikode experiment will work, but the things I've heard of IIMK's activities (like the IT park), makes me quite optimistic. IIMK has some unique problems. IIM-K does not suffer half as much from being not situated in an industrial city as from being situated in a town with very low name recognition. Though a historic city, few non-Malayalis (besides CAT Applicants) have heard of Kozhikode and fewer still can pronounce it's name properly. An Kozhikode is also a town which many, even in Kerala, would consider 'backward'. As the author rightly pointed out in the previous article, it is difficult for faculty & their families to find quality schools, shopping centres or recreational places, which they so easily would have done in Mumbai, Bangalore or even Cochin. Having a large number of visiting faculty, per-se is not a bad thing. Most good institutes have a large number of visiting faculty. At ISB, Hyderabad, visiting faculty outnumber regular faculty by something like 4 to 1. But if someone decides against joining a reputed institute because of the city, then it reflects very poorly on the place indeed. Only the government of Kerala can remedy this. Though I could sense more than a tinge of sarcasm in Mr. Palety's appreciation of IIMK and its director ("He has been responsible for...the water harvesting plant"), all things said and done, Palety has done everybody a favour by bringing such difficult issues to light.