Stories about India from September, 2009
India: The Web Meets The Road In The Great Driving Challenge
An automobile company in India recently held a promotional/marketing event named ‘The Great Driving Challenge‘, in which social media was used innovatively both to create buzz as well as to decide the final winner. Contestants shared their travel experiences through blog posts, photos, videos etc.
India: Lisa Ray's Blog On Living With Cancer
Santosh informs that Bollywood celebrity Lisa Ray has recently been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and has started to blog about her battle with the disease.
India: Decoding the affluent Indian
Who is an affluent Indian? What are his/her lifestyle and media consumption habits? Arun Prabhudesai at Trak.in goes on to summarize the key findings from a recent survey.
Indian Bloggers Confront Street Harassment
“Eve-teasing” is a term that is used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh for sexual harassment or molestation in the street. The Blank Noise Project, which was started by an art student six years ago, aims to confront street harassment and change public perceptions of it.
India: 99999 Lights Out Campaign
Kenney Jacob informs about the “99999 lights out” campaign launched by a Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organization to create awareness on global warming: “The campaign carries the message – switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year...
India: Blogs And Ad-revenues
With a cartoon post, Brainstuck takes a humorous look at the consequence for optimization of blogs to get more ad-revenues.
Bangladesh: To Get An Indian Visa
Kowshik describes the painful ordeal a Bangladeshi has to go through to get an Indian tourist visa from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
India: How To Stop Online Movie Piracy
Soumyadip at Cutting The Chai discusses ways to curb online movie piracy, which is affecting the Indian movie industry.
India: Teachers Day
September 5 was celebrated as the national teachers’ day in India for the appreciation of teachers or Gurus. “One most important thing that is inherently Indian, is the respect given to Gurus in India,” informs Uber Desi.
India: Give Your Life For A Leader
Amit Varma at India Uncut reacts to the news that 14 people died in different parts of Andhra Pradesh hearing about the death of Chief Minister of the state YSR Reddy. The blogger comments: “It’s quite possible that many of these deaths, if not all, randomly happened around that time,...
India: Its Raining Blogs
Jayakrishnan Unnithan notices the abundance of blogs in the blogosphere and comments: “keep blogging if it is good it will be read and you will be a blog star, else you go down the drainage.”
Video: Perspectives on International Social Entrepreneurs
From the GSBI, the Global Social Benefit Incubator and The Next Billion Blog comes a series of video interviews of social enterpreneurs from all over the globe who are meeting for the Global Social Benefit Incubator in the USA.
India: The Young And Fair International Actresses In Bollywood
Santosh at Über Desi finds that almost all foreign actresses recently introduced in Bollywood movies are young fair skinned attractive females. The blogger opines that: “an unhealthy obsession with skin color is not a new phenomenon to Indian society, a deep rooted post-colonial hangover, that seems to manifest itself in...
India: Ban On Headscarf In Dakshina Kannada
Hasnain reports that a ban on Headscarves for students is in effect in some colleges of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka, India.
