Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)

Election Capaigns in the Cyber Highway

The whole nation caught up in the election fever and the online world is too buzzing with electon campaigns and with the news of Lok Sabha polls.
One one hand parties are publishing websites listing their party details as well as their candidates',along with the election manifestos,slogans,policies,principles,songs,pamphlets .Some examples of these portels are:
http://www.ldf.org.in/
http://www.udf.org.in/
http://www.bjpkerala.org/



etc.
on the other hand individual candidates have started their own websites and blogs to express their ideology and notions.UDF candidate in Trivandrum has given his vision in http://www.shashitharoor.in/ .Along with it he give his people a facility to contact him through SMS.Not to be left behind,LDF has also launched many web portals to display the views of their candidates.
http://www.malayalamscraps.com/ provides users with a rare opportunity to be a part of the election camapaign but it provides net-commanding codes so that when it is pasted in one's Email text space and the reciever can see the poster or slogan in his message.
Many social networking sites like Orkut,Blog hosts like Blogger.com,wordpress.com provides a base for election campaigns.
http://www.voteforldf.in ,launched by a team of free software activists in the state asks the voters to vote for ldf and has gained many visitors.

An Hour Of Darkness

Millions of people,today will switch off their home or office lights for an hour-March 28-at 8:30 pm,"sending a global message to fight off the adverse clmatic conditions.
The campaign is in its third year and claiming phenominal growth in partcipation from 2.2million in 2007 to 50 million last year and more than a billion this weak.But where is the proof of any tagible change in the consumer mindset???????????
The annual increase in the temperature and power consumption seems touching the sky.I,Sydney ,where the movement firstly kicked off in 2007,recorded as 16.56% power consumption growth between 2006 and 2007.
In comparison,Our sweet developing city,where population is high,where Earth Hour is unknown to have existed recorded much less annual growth.
Thus it will be very interesting to know whether today's Earth Hour Campaign may bring some "change" in power consumption,but the the word "change"'s meaning may be,sometimes,rising up.............

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