Ayodhya Verdict: India won, Media looses, Technology wins.

Today was unlike any other day the big news was Ayodhya Verdict was to be announced today and due to some tension we were summoned in office early, damn it was very early. So went to bed early, make that midnight, so that I could reach office at 7. Trying to wake up early I woke up at 3am now this was not desirable or necessary as my alarm was scheduled to ring at 5. Anyways trying to accept the destiny I didn’t went back to sleep after that.
Now here I reach office and there was a buzz over the cup of coffee about Ayodhya verdict. Understanding the risk our team lead left us at 1 so that we could reach our homes. Now here where’s the whole story begins. When returning back the roads were deserted, malls and shops closed was like a virtual strike, cops here and there on patrolling.
Switched on the TV every news channel had their best reporters placed in front of Allahabad High Court and as the most admirable part of our country’s  strong news network and awesome coverage is  that they can virtually cover everything I mean even the birds flying over the venue, but now the real entrainment from those news channel is that they have this awesome talent to even cover a decent and sensitive matter like the Ayodhya Verdict in an dramatically way  as if its a climax scene of our daily saas bahu soap.

 So annoyed I turned the TV off and header to the web.And not very surprisingly we had a better coverage of the whole verdict from genuine people with genuine thoughts. Everyone was talking about peace and brotherhood, moreover no one was talking about temple or a mosque, different people had different views some wanted schools, some hospitals some college etc etc. What the point I want to make here is that if you are frustraded and annoyed like me with the Indian media and don’t want to see their presentation skills and better opt of some genuine stuff other that some daily saas bahu soap kind of material, Internet is the place where you should land up. No I am not talking about the IPTVs that are on the buzz now a days due to launch of 3g networks. I am talking about our regular sites like Google and twitter.




Google’s Realtime is simply awesome when you want to get the real time updates and as twitter is addictive people like you and me can’t get enough of it. I searched google realtime for keywords "Ayodhya Verdict" and the results were bombarded with hundred to twitter updates every second, here since the updates are automatically refreshed sometimes I had to freeze the screen just to read the updates. An awesome coverage with genuine thoughts I would like to say about that and yeah I never missed the TV the whole time, I had an instance where virtually i got an adrenaline rush also .. believe it.


The aftermath tells us that twitter trends were topped by India the whole time with the top 3 positions acquired by #Allahabad High Court, #Ayodhya Verdict and #Nirmohi Akhara which is certainly never seen over these years. Even some twitted that the Case briefing was created in OpenOffice 3.1, while some had a chance to point out that the engineers working on Allahabad Official site where the Verdict was supposed to be announced had a real DDos type of attack situation as millions of users requesting the site at the same time causing it to crash. And since even twitter were bombarded with tweets even our Big Blue Whale has to give up for sometime although that was just for an instance. and such a coincident was that twitter has 3 TT and land was also divided into 3 parts now that's awesome.





The key point here I want to make is that here is an example how the our everyday life's has been changed we are no more dependent upon newspapers that gives us a days old news neither we have to tolerate anymore of news media drama (SANSANI that is what I like to call) we can very well get great coverage and news in real time by smart use of present technology. Thanks Google, Thanks Twitter, Thanks Technology.
A last message:
Now please don’t fight anymore we have lots of more things to worry about one of which is our nations pride CWG games etc.


look who is queitly tweeting around here.. Its the Very own twitter Favourate Shashi Tharoor tweeting:
“ShashiTharoor Shashi Tharoor
In Tvm,Palayam Mosque shares common wall with Ganesh Temple; across the rd is St. Joseph's Catholic Church, all flanking the Martyrs' column”.

Say ‘NO’ to CORRUPTION

I am really ashamed and feeling terrible due to all the mess created in CWG and with all the media coverage that it is attraction and is also marking a nation that is supposed to be the 3rd most powerful nation in the world with a bad name. One of the top official of CWG OC said in there defence that “India have different level of hygiene and lifestyle we should not compare it with Beijing Olympics.” Well in this sweet tone he certainly refers to the low hygiene and lifestyle and that’s a blow more to the world class infrastructure and working condition  of emerging India. Even though he says so that does not means that people coming to India expects to see tigers and snake charmers and streets dogs running all over their bed and neither that means it has to be prodigal. People in the cooperate world of today's India know that fact very well the we are behind no one. We had a chance to prove the world and embrace them with our luxury and our sweetness. Still we have not lost at all we still have a chance to make it right we can still make their stay a better one I mean best of what they have ever experienced so that when they go back to their countries they can say a story that how India recovered from all those initial mess and gave them such a awesome stay. 

 

So from where all these kind of problems arises .. ha .. Good guess its got to be corruption that spread from the root to the top. There is a second fees to be paid in bureaucracy starting straight from peon to top officials to get you work done. There are some NGO who are working hard to at least minimise it.

A site www.ipadiabribe.com that tries to check corruption in their own way. Its is a non profit organisation that works with citizens and government to change the quality of life in India. The working model for the organization is simple and effective.

                                              

 

visit the site there are instances of bribe paid as low as ` 10 to  lakhs of ` . One interesting story states

“Department:
Police

Transaction:
Investigation of case

Bribe Type:
personal

Details:
In the year 2004 my father was arrested, stating that he is the Director-in-charge of a Non-Banking financial institution which he was not,and was taken on remand. when I visited the police station to provide medicine and water to my father the then thana incharge of tukoganj police station Mr. Guru slappped me and said we'll do the same with your father if you will not pay 5 lakh Rs. for the development fund of tukoganj police station. I requested him a lot that I am not having such a big amount then one Mr. ********** who was the Sub-Inspector of that police station came to my rescue and adviced me to pay atleast 3 lakh Rs. then I called my family members and freinds to arrange this amount and we arranged Rs. 1,70,000 and then we requsted Mr. guru and his associates that they should not torture my father any further.”

 

 

Now that's one of the cruel act that we as a common citizens have to face in our daily life. Join it take a pledge fight against it.

There is another site www.jago.in which have the same motive.

Although the system has become more transparent by the introduction of RTI and other few laws. the only thing that is lacking is unawareness we as a citizens should be aware of our rights and fight tooth and nail for those. And stop paying for our common rights like to file and FIR and for our birth certificate  and on a whole stop paying bribe at all .

Remembering even those of us who pay bribe are equally guilty as we provide platform for them to ask and again ask for more.

Instead take a pledge and fight with it. Remember its a disease and when one gets ill we take preventions and take pills to kill the disease and not just sit idol and have the disease take their chance to win over us.

 

 

India does not makes us, We individual makes India.

Save our nation. Its in our hand to write the future of our mother nation .

to give her back what she has given us. India has done a lot for us not its our turn to give her back.