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Jun 20, 2011

A Village Renamed Itself Snapdeal.com?

As a show of gratitude for donating $5000 worth of water pumps, a remote Indian village changed its name to Snapdeal.com, mirroring that of their Groupon-esque benefactor. Wait, wait, wait. Huh?

From TechCrunch:
Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in India and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village's residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.
Snapdeal.com CEO Kunal Bahl tells me the goal has always been to build a socially responsible organization, and that the decision to provide clean drinking water for the village came from a conversation with one of its 500 employees in the hallways.
A righteous gesture indeed. And I know it's not my place to tell a village what they should and shouldn't do, but this decision doesn't seem terribly well thought out. Especially when considering the longview.


12 comments:

Zombie said...

Thats pretty interesting.

Skeng said...

That's crazy!

Atley said...

I dont see any long term problems with nameing your town after sombody who helped you out. even if it is a URL.

Red13 said...

that would be pretty suprising

lovebloggin said...

hahahaha that's awesome

Athanasian Complexio said...

That's....rather unusually nice of a company to do. I'm more surprised to hear that a company did something generous like that.

Charles said...

Heh, well it's a nice gesture at least? Happy to see that there are at least some socially responsible companies :]

Guy Movie Blogger said...

It's dumb, but not as dumb as thse people that are willing to tatoo a casino's name on their forehead in exchange for $100,000.

Alexander said...

That's pretty lame, sell your culturally influenced city names and surroundings for a piece of advertising.

Professor Oak said...

There's nothing wrong with that. Come on guys, both parties win.

Mai Yang said...

a news indeed! ^_^

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