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By: Swine Flu can make Twitter shine… even more.

Swine Flu can make Twitter shine… even more. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:54:15 +0000

[...] shining colors. Twitter could easily be a united global communications tool. Like during the horrific attacks in India a few months back or a plane landing in the Hudson River in New York. Twitter brings us news [...]

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:47:31 +0000

[...] struck New Orleans. In December 2005 it was the South East Asian Tsunami, and later there was the Mumbai terror attack, and this year the war against Gaza. In each case, the blogosphere has reacted in a timely and [...]

By: Panic {RE}_Programming » Blog Archive » Ushahidi - Documenting Global Crises

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:34:47 +0000

[...] August 2005, Katrina struck New Orleans; In December 2005 it was the South East Asian Tsunami, the Mumbai bombings, and this year the war against Gaza. In each case, the blogosphere has reacted in a timely and [...]

By: Live From India | Social Media Smack Talk

Live From India | Social Media Smack Talk — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:59:28 +0000

[...] on-the-scene reporting using Twitter from India as horrific terrorist attacks continue to unfold. Om Malik has suggested this Twitter Search query to follow the bad news as it continues to break. Share and [...]

By: Velen

Velen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:43:20 +0000

ANYTHING IN THE WORLD IS NOT PERFECT WE HAVE TO MAKE IT PERFECT & WHO AL ARE BARRIER–DESTROY THEM.

Where was Indian Navy???? Just catching Somali pirates? Where is Raj Thakare??? In the hiding?? Where is the collective outrage from ordinary citizens?? General APATHY has taken over Mumbaikars and India!!!

By: selfdefensedelhi

selfdefensedelhi — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:56:50 +0000

really sad to see it, must say mumbai govt was pathetic to get commandoes to travel in these best buses when they deserved to be in at least limo party bus same as what indian team got when they won the 20-20 icc world cup. pity its india real heroes suffer, and all these fake heroes celebrate :(

By: Sangiit

Sangiit — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:37:09 +0000

A democracy where its failed leadership, in the shameful aftermath of a fallen trust with its fellow countrymen and those of the globe, who paid with their lives for their sheer lack of leadership, have the audacity to talk of communal hailing before the body of leadership when choosing from its own, manipulate their fellow countrymen by sowing communalism in their hearts.

To say the least communalism has become an election propaganda with almost every party, every candidate and we call ourselves a secular nation …This kind of communal differentiation should not be acceptable in a democracy like ours and must be forbidden by law, we are beings that happen to be Indians and that is all that should matter!

By: devavrata

devavrata — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:50:21 +0000

The enemy’s within, not without.India is incapable of firm decisive governance because of its chaotic polity. Remember how the Left was opposing the government on reforms ? And who stood to benefit if they had their way ? Watch out!

By: Mumbai attacks coverage shows (good and bad) maturation point of social media « NewsGrab

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:57:01 +0000

[...] the last few days – with good reason. It’s also been the hottest trending topic on Twitter and covered widely as the latest disaster to be live broadcasted via [...]

By: prateek

prateek — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:17:56 +0000

Before Pakistan , the role of CHINA & USA should come under scrutiny. Firstly, CHINA inspite of being the most populated country of the world, did not do what the world expected from a country of that stature apart from expressing grief as a mere formality, destroying all its harassing effort of olympic management to lift its image of being a good nation in the worlds eyes. As India is its largest, closest and a potential ally as compared to USA, CHINA should fulfill its social responsibilities in true sense.
Secondly, the USA looks upon every country as potential customers for weapons(dumped by its army) be it a failed state like Pakistan or a country like India whose very “Idea” is being challenged. Inspite of all odds the US government continues to support the negligible civillian governance in Pakistan, consciously, since time immemorial. The clear majority of world believes, when US government can hang Saddam Hussain why cant anything similar be done with the Military and ISI chief of Pakistan. Doing so will clearly help the democracy in Pakistan at present and send a strong message to the future, consequently relieving the peace loving majority of the world.
Specially in this time of social, cultural and economical unification(globalisation), the US agenda regarding Pakistan puts a bold question mark on the US think tanks.

By: Rick Huffman

Rick Huffman — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:16:36 +0000

My heart goes out to the victims’, their families and their great nation.

By: Sangiit

Sangiit — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:28:29 +0000

To begin with these past few days have been numbing to say the least and today has been no different. What has been unleashed on the night of Wednesday, is one that has shamed our kind yet again.
It is truly not possible to even begin to comprehend what the people who have survived have lived through and have to live with or of those who passed on in the clutches of such sheer brutality and those who survive them – May the loving lord love them, bless them, protect them, guide them and give them the strength of all his might.
Each day is and shall be a fight of its darkness; this is not its first and most certainly not the last.
We as a nation have been in its shadow for far too long and if we let any of its darkness cloud our lives any longer we are doomed.
We must for once look at the darkness within ourselves as well, as individuals and as a nation for we are equally responsible for what has been and is.
What is most inhuman is the sheer lack of compassion and sense of duty of those who could have saved so many souls of this suffering, of those whose leadership we trusted.
The leadership of this country, our country has to take is responsibility of ‘trust’ with its fellow countrymen as its foremost duty.
Our freedom has yet to truly come; We are still in bondage our masters have changed,
Today we are bound by those who we have chosen in the name of democracy, our spirit robbed, We live in constant fear – Our freedom an illusion…
Today we spill out our own fears, that burn within us each day as we see a piece of it unfold before our very eyes, this is not the only fear of ours that has played itself to life, our emotions and rage spoke then as they do now- Our pledge an illusion …
All that is and has been is one that each of us have seen before, each time with different faces…
My heart knows of all the illusions but yet is a hopeless
Hopeful that truly hopes that this time our pledge sees the light – light within light without,
That this time the leadership
of our country restores the trust of its fellow countrymen – being true leaders , not masters of the past …

By: Bellie Jayaprakash

Bellie Jayaprakash — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:27:53 +0000

We Indians can never learn

I see in the TV news channels, the anchors styling themselves as the ‘know all’s commenting and talking about Military Action against Pakistan as if Pak will keep quiet and watch the fun from behind a rope marked as the boundary, like when the media was kept away from Taj Hotel. How ridiculous to even to think in those lines.

Let me explain.The biggest stupid mistake we commit is to let the Police, in this case the ATS of Maharastra, talk through the media. Knowing their [police] track record, what ever they say about the arrested terrorist is only a speculation. We have seen it in a number of cases. They say that he speaks perfect English but he is the son of a rikshaw puller and the he himself is a daily wage earner, is a contradiction in point.

Why can’t they shut up and keep quiet and video record the complete interrogation along with other security agencies like CIA/ FBI, UK Police – Scotland Yard and others and present it to the whole world so that there cannot be any denial or rebuttal later on.

By giving out the information through the media that the ‘killer at CST’ is from Faridkot, they have enabled the ISI to completely make the family of this man vanish into thin air so that Pakistan can claim that there never was any body ever born in Pak as AA Qasab – the caught culprit.

See my blog http://india-arise.blogspot.com/

By: GANESH

GANESH — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:14:47 +0000

THE ATTACK ON MUMBAI WAS HAPPENED DUE TO NEGLIGENCE. OUR POLICEMEN LACKS LATEST
MODERN TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAD SEEN BY ALL OF US. POLITICIAN WERE BUSY IN THEIR OWN MOOD. SUCH LEADER IS NOT REQURED BY THIS COUNTRY.
STRICT LAWS SHOULD BE MADE & SHOULD BE IMPLIMENT AF FAT AS POSSIBLE ALSO.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:07:14 +0000

THE ATTACK ON MUMBAI WAS HAPPNEND BECAUSE OF NEGLIGENCE REGARDING SEA ROUTE.
OUR POLITICIANS WERE BUSY IN THEIR OWN WORKS(?).SUCH LEADERS DO NOT NEED OUR COUNTRY. THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
PROPER ACTION MUST BE REQUIRED TO STOP THIS ATTACKS. & REQUIRE TO IMPLIMENT THAT ALSO.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:25:31 +0000

I think this whole incident showed the whole world how unprepared India government is for this type of attacks to handle.
But I think in this attack terrorists made a mistake of killing foreigners and Rich people in India. Just think about this – Today everybody in media, internet, news are talking about people died in Taj, Oberoi and Nariman House but nobody talk about 60 people killed in CST. Why? because they are common poor people who have always died in these terrorists attacks.
Now because rich and foreigners died in this attack there is global visibility and global pressure on Indian government and because of this Indian Goverment must and should take some actions to prevent it in future.
Atleast I hope that!

Otherwise if they had killed only common people in Mumbai then it would not made an impact on Indian Governement to take some serious actions coz they are not important for them.

How pitiful situation is this? Which world do we live?