[icernet] How MIT deal fell apart

[Arul Selvan]

How MIT deal fell apart
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=23688
The trouble with Indias most high-profile tech deal  with the Massachussets Institute of Technology  perhaps began with the price tag. MIT wanted India to shell out $5 million just to use the name Media Lab Asia for 10 years. If the country chipped in with another $1 million a year, it could call the project MIT Media Lab.

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Shourie Fired Staff Unilaterally: MIT  
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=33969 
There are two versions to the deal breaker between Massachusets Institute of Technology Media Laboratory and Arun Shouries IT ministry.  
 
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No tears as India ends MIT contract 
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=23621 
A much-hyped research collaboration between the Government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended, with both sides taking potshots at each other. MIT claims it walked out due to differences with Communications and IT Minister Arun Shourie. 

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We Pulled The Plug On MIT: Shourie 
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=33939 
While Massachu-setts Institute of Techno-logys Media Lab would have you believe that it has pulled out of the Media Lab Asia project, IT minister Arun Shourie has made it clear that it was the government that pulled the plug upon realising that the US-based research organisation had contributed nothing to the project. 

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'It's nice but not necessary to have them'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=46005964
Project investigators of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, feel that the MIT's decision to pull out of the management of Media Lab Asia is in the favour of the country.