Thursday, January 7, 2010

Telangana – Breaking the media blackout

I have just seen the ad for Idea on TV, in which a person is reading the news on his mobile and the headline states “Andhra to be split”. The message of the ad was mobile applications will reduce the need for newsprint and papers, saving trees and the environment. What an idea Sirji!

So what if the Andhra and Rayalseema owned media blanks out news on the struggle for Telangana. We have the power of the internet and twitter to propagate our cause. I just ran a search for Telangana on google and it threw up over 2 million pages. There are over a 100 sites dedicated to Telangana, a thousand blogs, innumerable discussion forums and tweets. The internet is exploding with Telangana based content and the way things are going, it will soon be the most searched for word in the sub-continent. In fact, there is a page on the proposed map of the state of Telangana, on mapsofindia, India’s No.1 map site, you can see it at http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/telangana/telangana-state.html .

The Telangana detractors seem to believe that blacking out the news of Telangana, will bring an end to the struggle, they are wrong. The power of the net will help us broadcast the case for Telangana to the world. With Telangana based content being uploaded every 5 seconds, there is no way our roar for a separate state be forced to a cry in the wilderness. The struggle is taking place in full view of the world, my earnest appeal to the Telangana brothers and sisters is, keep posting and writing on the happenings in our villages, localities, districts and in Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana. We will leverage the power of the internet to propagate our news to the world.

We are determined to throw away the yoke that is Andhra Pradesh, and all of us right from school children to retired pensioners are willing to sacrifice our all for a free state.

Jai Telangana
Jai Hind

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