Well the biggest democratic exercise is over. Phew! Once the counting starts one really gets an idea of how BIG this nation of ours is!
I really liked the snazzy way in which NDTV had designed their dedicated internet page on the elections. It was extremely user friendly with a real feel of ‘information at the click of a mouse’.
On the other hand IBN’s page was a little shoddy and difficult to operate. Nevertheless it had some interesting features like the slide at the bottom-half of the page showing the victory or the downfall of birds of the same feather...PM hopefuls, tainted (yet hopefuls), mavericks(whatever that was) and so on.
And as our politicos waited for the verdict to be out the media had a field day lapping up the happenings all around (despite the fact that the really colourful ‘ishtaar’ kept his gates closed to the media till 4 in the afternoon, courtesy Indian Express 17.05.09). And what a verdict it was. Is it a faint sign that we as a nation have started thinking? That we have finally started weighing pros and cons? Only time will tell...
{Meanwhile rumour has it that Lalu had a debacle this time because Nitish had a better looking and ishtyliss helicopter than him...dhat...silly rumours :) }
{Will have a detailed write-up soon. Let me go and get some more silly rumours :) }
I really liked the snazzy way in which NDTV had designed their dedicated internet page on the elections. It was extremely user friendly with a real feel of ‘information at the click of a mouse’.
On the other hand IBN’s page was a little shoddy and difficult to operate. Nevertheless it had some interesting features like the slide at the bottom-half of the page showing the victory or the downfall of birds of the same feather...PM hopefuls, tainted (yet hopefuls), mavericks(whatever that was) and so on.
And as our politicos waited for the verdict to be out the media had a field day lapping up the happenings all around (despite the fact that the really colourful ‘ishtaar’ kept his gates closed to the media till 4 in the afternoon, courtesy Indian Express 17.05.09). And what a verdict it was. Is it a faint sign that we as a nation have started thinking? That we have finally started weighing pros and cons? Only time will tell...
{Meanwhile rumour has it that Lalu had a debacle this time because Nitish had a better looking and ishtyliss helicopter than him...dhat...silly rumours :) }
{Will have a detailed write-up soon. Let me go and get some more silly rumours :) }
1 comment:
..democratic exercise over..even I agree..it seems v as a nation hv started thinkin..
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