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”.
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