Badri Raina, in a must-read post:
My thoughts are here occasioned by a programme that one premier English-language electronic channel has been running since last night.
It is captioned “enough is enough.”
As I have listened to the outrage pouring out from a diverse assortment of some celebrity Mumbai citizens whose haunts habitually remain restricted to the affluent [...]
Archive for December 1st, 2008
Serendipity had a long excruciating wait for her father. [Link via Dilip]
Knowing my dad and knowing his military background, i knew he wouldn’t be sitting in the background of things. I was fearing for the worst. Thoughts like him throwing himself into the fray (which he did) were flashing before me every few seconds and [...]
Citizen journalism
Published by December 1st, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Internet, Media and Terrorism. 0 CommentsEven as I continue to track instances of citizen journalism in the Mumbai terror attack on this post, I’m trying to make sense of what happened in a work-in-progress case study and a Flickr set of screenshot on the role of social media in the Mumbai terror attack.
Gaurav Mishra checks real time citizen journalism during [...]
Abodh takes a walk around South Mumbai on the 29th:
As I left the Regal Circle behind and walked towards the Marine Drive via Mantralaya, I saw the flag at half mast, the police were at red alert positions at the gate of the Mantralaya. I passed Gandhiji’s statue and a guy dressed in ragged clothes [...]
Kiran would like to know: why have innocents died?
The Taj Mahal heritage wing was on fire. That was when I broke down. Tears streaming down my face. I had flashbacks of all the times I had been to the heritage wing for press conferences, to interview visiting celebrities, to shop, to enjoy a coffee and [...]
‘Some of us did not die’
Published by December 1st, 2008 in India, Politics, Religion, Secularism, South Asia and Terrorism. 0 CommentsA lot of bloggers are angry with politicians- Harini wants the entire geriatric class in politics to take up vanaprastha:
As i watch the news and the announcement of Shivraj Patil’s resignation - i am left numb. Why was he allowed to continue when he was so bloody inept? I am left even colder by the [...]
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