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April 23, 2011 (Saturday) : Modern avatar (God’s incarnation)

The social network, emerging as the modern avatar (God’s incarnation), is credited to have demolished dictators, kings, and despots like pack of cards. It shows a remarkable clawing back capability to hit back and destroy the most formidable when things may appear to be returning to normalcy. Beauty is that it is still underestimated and even underrated by the existing establishments. Its power, first recognized during the collapse of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt in Arab world, is now in the process of undermining the most repressive regime of the world in Ashad’s Syria.

Social network comprises of many important components such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, E-mail, Comment, Blog, SMS and MMS etc. These components work in unison with extraordinary capacity to expand individual existence into a chasm of humanity. The moot question now is whether this avatar (God’s incarnation) is good enough to take the challenge from the mechanization of political establishments in India? Going by the Arab world experieice, there is a very strong possibility that it may eventually unleash enough fire power to overcome the forces always working to weaken social and administrative fabric of the country. The abruptness of change affected by social network in Arab world underlines the fact that it revels in the ignorance of its enemy. Simply put, the conventional wisdom of politics does not understand this phenomenon at all. Social network, however, is now pitted against a new kind of enemy here having far greater complexities than that exists in Arab world. If social network can win India, then it can win China as well.

The strength of awakening against corruption has its root in social network. Just type “Anna Hazare”, “Anupam kher”, “Kiran Bedi”, “Sawmi Agnivesh”, “Ramdev Baba”, “Corruption in India”, “Lok-Pal” and such other phrases on the internet and one is transported in a different world where one can really feel the powerful undercurrent concealed within the external calm. The state is servant and the idea is king here. The state cannot wield on social networks like press or electronic media as it is not possible to divide idea or vision. It simply refuses to be tamed and work for any particular master. The state is powerless here. Social network has no sex, caste, religion or preference.

Anybody with certain computer related ability gels very well here. Sample here the power of social networking in following two posts from thousands, which may be appearing as frequently as every 10 or 20 minutes :

“You are invited to the Weekly Volunteer Meet in Delhi today. Venue: Arya Public School, Behind MP Emporium, Baba Khadag Singh Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Time: 4 pm. Contact person: Ram Kumar Jha, Cell number: XXXXXXXXXX (numbers deliberately concealed). Also Join the solidarity march at India Gate after the meeting.”

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Source:  OpenStax, Sheila ki jawani (youth of sheila). OpenStax CNX. May 25, 2011 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col11295/1.36
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