This city pays (according to one rumour) about 58000 crores in taxes. In return we have a train system thats 40 years behind times, roads ( is shehar main har jagah khuda hai) with moonscapes and a set of politicos who were busy trying to protect a muddied statue forgetting the millions who survive. Survive if the key word. This is the city where you can get a rick at 3 am or 'anda bhurji' at 4 in the morning and those who provide there services go back to stay in hovels, while those who afford the rick and the bhurji live in matchbox sized over priced apartments. Driving back to work this morning one can hear above the usual noise in the mind "Amazing Grace" being played over and over again. Amazing grace it is!! The maximum city survives another day. Pushing, slamming, ducking, living one calamity after another. One year in this city and it will change you. NewYork will seem like a walk in the park.
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Who were the people who brought the scenes of the blasts to the people across the world when cell phone services, sms and landlines jammed as usual. IBN Live calls them citizen journalists. The era of grassroots driven journalism is here to stay. Live reports filed via mobile phones, pics taken on aim and shoot cameras, logged in via Reliance Internet cards.
Maybe one of these days we will no longer stay glued to the News Channels with their undertrained journalists and over the top style of story telling. We will just visit Flickr for the pics taken by a dozen odd people. Listen to podcasts for correct information on the ground situation and so on.
Maybe it it time for VCs to invest in communities - local websites that are self propogating, blogs that go beyond self glorification.
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