The power of information is immense. One who controls the machinery of information propagation is therefore, very powerful. History is filled with shrewd strategies where information has been hoarded, twisted, and crookedly garbed in order to pursue vested interests.
In India, today we witness unfortunate incidents in hundreds which imply an evil and nauseating alliance between those with political ambitions, sellable intellectuals looking to fill their pockets with coins and those that control the media. The most recent incident being the virtual blackout of the Assam riots. The shrewdness with which this was accomplished is mind boggling. Initially, the media coverage of these riots was so dismal that people in general did not even know about it until much later. When however, its scale went beyond an acceptable threshold, most 'intellectuals' aggressively went about attempting to downplay the threat of illegal Bangladeshi immigration in all national televisions. When however, people increasingly got drawn to the growing national threat of inflitration and the proliferation of elements of affinity to Pakistan and other anti-India groups, most sections of the media found it their new religion to push this into the background and bring a Modi interview into the spotlight.
While thousands were being displaced in the North Eastern front of the nation, this alliance found it their duty to go about drumming about an insignificant interview and bringing to the forefront the Gujarat riots a decade in the past while they allowed thousands of Indians to be persecuted, killed and removed from their houses to refugee camps by foreign infiltrators. Anti-India forces enjoyed yet another triumph in this land of fools. In this entire episode, the most interesting fact lay in how the entire country was led away from Assam into judging Modi and other trifles.
This unholy tri-party alliance of the controllers of political, informational and intellectual powers went about unchecked commiting assault after assault on this country and her people for years, until recently when technology democratized information itself. It happened with the rise of the Internet and finally with the growth of social networking resources like Twitter and Facebook. People in thousands, who had always suspected evil at work but, were unable to build a proper framework of affairs of the country, finally found thousands of others, all of whom could put together pieces of the jigsaw. Finally, people are able to detect foul play and thousands have brought in the open innumerable unspoken concerns - for the first time backed with concrete facts and systematic analysis.
The biggest role the Internet played was to free the flow of information. And this has been a threat to the members of the above coalition. For they now realize that as people are being increasingly drawn to the Internet, the possibility of their hoarding and manipulating information is undergoing a great involution which lessens their value as partners. Pictures circulating in Facebook awakening people to the possibility of a Bangladesh Occupied Assam is soemthing that this alliance would not have liked to occur in the conscience of India - but, fortunately for us, this has happened.
Today, we are at a juncture when no one is quite clear on how the Internet may be leveraged. No one even understands the technical potential it has. For his reason, we see that in mainstream online media like Twitter thousands differ and smother the people from traditional media. Both sides, the traditional media, as the new generation nationalists have yet to figure how the Internet is to be leveraged in an effective manner. When the owners of traditional media were at a loss of logical counters, they went ahead and branded all their detractors as fascists or fundamentalists.
Strategically, one of the foremost concerns of the nationalists of this country will have to address now, is to innovate a new-generation information network that broadcasts the ground reality. This is a huge task in itself but, it is one of the most effective ways to penetrate and crush this alliance. When India becomes a witness to her own reality, millions will be drawn to what is right.
In India, today we witness unfortunate incidents in hundreds which imply an evil and nauseating alliance between those with political ambitions, sellable intellectuals looking to fill their pockets with coins and those that control the media. The most recent incident being the virtual blackout of the Assam riots. The shrewdness with which this was accomplished is mind boggling. Initially, the media coverage of these riots was so dismal that people in general did not even know about it until much later. When however, its scale went beyond an acceptable threshold, most 'intellectuals' aggressively went about attempting to downplay the threat of illegal Bangladeshi immigration in all national televisions. When however, people increasingly got drawn to the growing national threat of inflitration and the proliferation of elements of affinity to Pakistan and other anti-India groups, most sections of the media found it their new religion to push this into the background and bring a Modi interview into the spotlight.
While thousands were being displaced in the North Eastern front of the nation, this alliance found it their duty to go about drumming about an insignificant interview and bringing to the forefront the Gujarat riots a decade in the past while they allowed thousands of Indians to be persecuted, killed and removed from their houses to refugee camps by foreign infiltrators. Anti-India forces enjoyed yet another triumph in this land of fools. In this entire episode, the most interesting fact lay in how the entire country was led away from Assam into judging Modi and other trifles.
This unholy tri-party alliance of the controllers of political, informational and intellectual powers went about unchecked commiting assault after assault on this country and her people for years, until recently when technology democratized information itself. It happened with the rise of the Internet and finally with the growth of social networking resources like Twitter and Facebook. People in thousands, who had always suspected evil at work but, were unable to build a proper framework of affairs of the country, finally found thousands of others, all of whom could put together pieces of the jigsaw. Finally, people are able to detect foul play and thousands have brought in the open innumerable unspoken concerns - for the first time backed with concrete facts and systematic analysis.
The biggest role the Internet played was to free the flow of information. And this has been a threat to the members of the above coalition. For they now realize that as people are being increasingly drawn to the Internet, the possibility of their hoarding and manipulating information is undergoing a great involution which lessens their value as partners. Pictures circulating in Facebook awakening people to the possibility of a Bangladesh Occupied Assam is soemthing that this alliance would not have liked to occur in the conscience of India - but, fortunately for us, this has happened.
Today, we are at a juncture when no one is quite clear on how the Internet may be leveraged. No one even understands the technical potential it has. For his reason, we see that in mainstream online media like Twitter thousands differ and smother the people from traditional media. Both sides, the traditional media, as the new generation nationalists have yet to figure how the Internet is to be leveraged in an effective manner. When the owners of traditional media were at a loss of logical counters, they went ahead and branded all their detractors as fascists or fundamentalists.
Strategically, one of the foremost concerns of the nationalists of this country will have to address now, is to innovate a new-generation information network that broadcasts the ground reality. This is a huge task in itself but, it is one of the most effective ways to penetrate and crush this alliance. When India becomes a witness to her own reality, millions will be drawn to what is right.
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