There's a world outside!

There's a world outside... from your sorrows, bad memories, illness, incidents and all...you just need to step out to experience joy, create new memories, feel good and experience joy ...

There's even a world outside this trash in front of you (that's making you read this post), away from this desk of yours, awaiting to be explored and experienced.

It's a fact that bad things attract and you stick around it for so long that they no more appear as bad, but as a part of your life. For example, if you are asked that, "Is Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, a part of your life?" You will take some time to come out with an answer, or probably you will find none. Just before being asked, you considered the online presence as just a part of your day...but you were probably not aware that it has gradually become an inevitable part of your everyday living. You may find time to chat but not to call up someone. You may feel relaxed to have received an email from a friend, but the presence of that very friend may annoy you for no reason.

Its a life when the problems are no more about kids not performing well in school or you not being able to catch up with your parents in other city....rather the issues are bigger ones now - not having internet connection, a crashed disk, not being added by someone on Facebook, not able to see your inmate online the whole day, etc, etc...

So, do you wish to come out of this self-created chaos and congestion on the web? Do you wish to be a part of a life where green leaves are actually swaying in the wind and not because you have an animated wallpaper? Do you ever want yourself to be back at home away from your laptop and mobile to spend some real-time moments with your family? If, yes just follow the line: -

"Here we go...come with me...there's a world outside that we should see..."

RESTRICTIONS, RULES, REGULATIONS - Diminishing Democracy!

It’s rightly said, “One doesn’t feel stirred until it happens in the immediate neighborhood.”

It was easy reading the constraints on wearing jeans in a Kanpur college or learning about fatwa on M.F. Hussain or even knowing about tightened restrictions on Bloggers in China.  But it was only when Mr. Kabil Sibal wanted Facebook, Google & Yahoo contents to be monitored in India, when many got stirred with anger and anguish. It still wouldn’t have done much to your sensitivities, but this time it was about internet – something which is inseparable from our lives.

So from where it all started?

A New York Times report on Monday that said Sibal called executives about six weeks ago and showed them a Facebook page that maligned ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi and told them it was "unacceptable". Pertaining to this, the government decided to take strict steps saying that “We’re very sensitive to criticism of the Gandhi family.”

One can imagine the extent to which Government can go, when last year there were moves to block the English translation of a Spanish novel about Sonia Gandhi's life.

Diminishing Democracy!

You can call it a mixed emotion of astonishment (to have heard such horrible news), helplessness (you can actually do nothing about it) and desperation (to make government realize their imprudent behavior). It’s either about ‘Diminishing Democracy’ or ‘Rising Revolution’.

Reactions from the brands itself –

Facebook in its reaction said it will cooperate in removing any content that violates its terms which are designed to keep material that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity off the service. 

Google said it will abide by local law and take any material if it violates its policies but asserted that it will not remove any content just because it is controversial.

Come what may, things are bound to settle within few days. We hope it doesn’t.

 Your Views are welcome.