Stories about India from December, 2009
India: Will its myriad applications lead to Twitter's demise?
Writing in Trak.in, Rabi Gupta – founder of iDubba.com, wonders if the myriad Twitter applications will ultimately kill Twitter itself.
India: For each of us, a State
Demanding new States appear to be the top political agenda of Indian politicians today. Jumping onto the bandwagon, popular Indian blogger and humorist Greatbong decides to press for a separate Statehood for his locality.
It's time to change the symbol of good health
In India, we've always believed that kids from well-to-do homes should look it by being chubby and plump. That was the sign of good health. Arundhuti Thapar at Just a Thought points out the fallacy in this thinking and writes that we need to fight obesity early and take more...
The fight against plagiarism continues
What do you do when a leading MSM daily lifts content from your blog without your permission, snips off your name and the copyright mark, publishes it as their own and when you protest, says it was ‘unintentional'? The Mridula Dwivedi at Travel Tales from India finds out.
Friending is easy, unfriending easier
Blogger Charukesi at A Time to Reflect expresses her reservations about the ease of online ‘friending’ and ‘unfriending’.
The perils of paid-for news
Soumyadip at Cutting the Chai talks about the dangers of sponsored news and why he has come to rely more “on the opinions of individuals who are unassociated with the media: the bloggers, the twitterers, the forums”.
India's Position On Climate Change
Jyoti Kothari writes about India's stand on the COP-15 climate change conference in Copenhagen.
India: The Kaiga Nuclear Disaster
The Filter Coffee writes about a recent disaster in the Kaiga Nuclear Atomic Power Station in Karnataka, India and complains about the lack of information regarding the contamination.
India: Media Speculations
Subir Bhowmik exposes Indian media's fabricated report on the arrest of ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in Dhaka, Bangladesh and his subsequent transfer to India.
Nepal: India-Nepal 1950 Treaty
Bhumika Ghimire's latest vlog stresses that its time to re-negotiate the India-Nepal 1950 treaty of peace and friendship.
India: Value First
Supriyo Chaudhuri at Sunday Posts argues that the reason for the success of Indian businesses is that apart from resilience and improvisations their thinking keeps ‘value’ first for a product.
India: 25 Years Of Bhopal Tragedy
Lekhni at The Imagined Universe remembers 25 years of Bhopal gas tragedy in India and discusses what lesson it teaches us.
M-banking: Going where no bank has gone before
Millions and millions of low-income, unbanked people stand to benefit (and maybe prosper?) from the development of mobile financial services in the next years, but there are several technological, logistical, and security challenges that must be addressed first.
Bangladesh, India: Arrest OF ULFA Chairman
Bangladesh Open Source Intelligence Monitors blog analyzes the story behind the arrest of the chairman of an Indian separatist movement – United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) from Bangladesh territory.
India: Storey Telling Key To Marketing Success
Indian blogger Gaurav Mishra lists three reasons why storytelling is the key to social media marketing success.
