(Rural) India

Todays post is on something I had in my mind since I was doing my MBA. During the days when I was collecting material for this, I realized the real pain of our country - the Real India - Rural India.
The slides here do try to stress on some figures of Rural India and then it seemed how can this be true. The more time I spent on getting information, the more I felt that we are the small number of lucky ones who were born in the city and have hardly lived in the Rural areas of India. Some of our professors used to tell us that Rural India is difficult and its not what we read in any books, the truth is that we may somehow never experience that for ourselves. Again its not something thats to be experienced - but its something thats to be learned and done something about. If we cant help that, the least we can do is stop bragging about few silly things and issues and just for once realize the fact that how fortunate we are than the majority of others who live there and those who will never experience our lives.

Anyways, the presentation was made for IT enterpreneurship lecture, where the topic for me was to find out ways how IT can help Rural India. I have tried to collect material from various sources to see the condition that Rural India is in today and to highlight some projects which are undertaken in hope to help the population there. Just thought of sharing it here.

News 24/7.. or is it 0/7

Times have really changed or we...

Suddenly monkey became racist... to the extent, the news papers of two countries started writing essays and biographies for weeks together on someone being called MAAKI. I remember the times when we used to call someone monkey in school... and sometimes i also hear it from the people who prefer to use these words on me from time to time and I take it as if its a compliment.

Next, I was more shocked when some state banned a film and came out on streets for a lyrics in the song which said "mochi ban gaya sonar". I think people have way too much free time and no real news. It was not just the political figures who would rather spend the day solving peoples problems, but would instigate the population to come out on the streets and voice their anger over something so trivial, our media is the best when they show it as BREAKING NEWS. The previous breaking news according to me was the train blasts in mumbai. But we have news such as a boy slapped a girl or a housewive sent his husband to jail or a horse dying on the race field as all being breaking news.

Recently Shreeshant went to the land of Oz for match and BCCI warned him of controlling his expressions. I heard the news so far. But then the very ol news channel concluded - ruled and passed the judgment on BCCI as being guilty of committing the horrendous crime. The channel even had the background music being played while giving the news to create the sensation - as if we watching a thriller movie and not news. They accused BCCI of spoiling players morale and stealing his fighting weapon and we are all doomed cause of that. Cant they jsut Report news or is that old fashioned now.

The last of the lot coming from our own city on the issue of north Indian spoiling the ethnic values of Mumbai. Yeah and we do call our city the Melting Pot.. irony isn't it? I don't even want to write and give it importance, its simply just &##$###.

Just cause someone thought the news reporter worthy to be given a mic and camera to speak, he/she can say whatever conclusion they derive from the news??? Is this news reporting anymore? Who should teach them what is reporting? Are they even remotely qualified to pass judgment as to what is right and what is wrong for the nation. I remember when news used to be a 30 minutes feature on our DD at 9 and we all used to hear news Reporting. What we now have in our country is at least 15 different 24/7 news channels but not even one Reporting news.