I request Mr. Premchand Malety to come to kampus again (on a direct flight this time) and speak to a cross section of stakeholders, and not just the director. Judge not a B-school by the quantity of faculty, but by the quality. We have a strict selection criteria, and are happy to say that potential faculty rejected in interviews at IIMK have gained employment in other IIMs who are more desperate for faculty. Visiting faculty, including foreign professors and working professionals, add a lot of value to students which is definitely not possible in a B-school that has mostly internal faculty. Regarding papers and case studies. It will start coming now, since the FPM program has started and the faculty shortage is being addressed on a war footing. The writer talks about the Centre of Excellence, but consciously avoids mention of our other Development Projects, like the CITI (Calicut IT Intiative), Malabar Shopping FEstival Project, support to the PT Usha School and SEPT, etc. A team of footballers from rural areas, trained by an organization that is supported by volunteers of IIMK, recently came tops at an international football competition, when our national team continues to languish at the 126 position in the world. When IIMA was set up, Ahmedabad was in a condition similar to what Kozhikode is currently. The development of the city can thus be accelerated by the setting up of IIMK. This might be the same intention behing setting up the IIM at Shillong. What is the use in locating them near developed cities, where there already exist a number of B-schools, including branches of a particular B-school which claims to be better than one IIM.