An associate professor at IIM Bangalore has received a censure order from the director for sending a mail to the Placement Committee, saying they should “disinvite” Unilever during campus placement.

In a mail shared with the media on 5 December 2018, Dr Deepak Malghan, who teaches public policy at IIM Bangalore says, “Unilever has been arm-twisting IIM Bangalore (IIM-B) after I organized a talk by classical singer TM Krishna and environmentalist N Jayaraman at IIM-B”.

After a written censure order was issued by the Director, Dr Malghan has retracted his mail about disinviting Unilever. Though Dr Malghan maintains that he did so "under protest".