Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Throw shoe at opponent parties and win Cash!

A new game will soon take its toll over cricket in these election times in India. The game is Shoe Throw.
Political parties in India, are already in a frenzy for proving which party is composed of most rude, illiterate, criminal candidates and which party will do something which will make it to headlines for all wrong reasons. We have seen, Varun Gandhi, who looked like a decent fellow to me till he gave that mindless statement in Pilibhit. I am still in a fix as to whether that was a political stunt to gain political mileage (which at this point seems very much logical) or this is what Varun's ideology has always been and its only that it came out in recent past.
Today, one of the journalist did what an Iraqi journalist did to Bush! Delhi based journalist, Jarnail Singh, hurled a shoe at incumbent cabinet minister, P Chidambaram. You know what was most unfortunate outcome of this incident? Shiromani Akali Dal, a biggie in Punjab politics announcing a cash reward for INR 2,00,000 to Jarnail for his "courage & bravery. What irks me most is the mindset and ideology of the people behind this pity thought! How and Why are such people in power, making laws for us when they don't deserve to even hold a post in a city municipal corporation? No wonder, in future they can pass laws making it legitimate to throw shoes on others, if you are unhappy with something!
God help India!

Monday, April 06, 2009

Google India Elections Center Bug!

Information Technology played a key role in recently held Presidential elections in USA. Democrats had a technically suave team which harnessed every IT medium possible!
Some political parties here in India are trying to follow this path this time for General elections. I have come across ads from BJP promoting its Primer Minister candidate L K Advani! If you are in India, you must have seen the ads for his website in Google ads on various websites or would have received an SMS for the same website!
Today, I was going through Google Blog and came across a post that Google has released Google India Elections Center in partnership with HT Media! Thanks to Google and HT Media for this as the site has good features where in you can know about your constituency, the incumbent MP and latest news going around in political circuit.
What prompted me to write this blog was one bug which I saw on the site. The Member Parliament 2004 widget actually shows the incumbent MPs from your constituency and adjoining ones. When I was searching for nothing in particular but just browsing through, I stumbled upon an MP from Arrah, Bihar, Mrs Kanti Singh. I know her name, at least I know that she is a female! The widget shows her incorrectly as a Male!

I know the widget search is powered by a third party service provider but Google is hosting the site so it can affect its credibility! Google India, please step up and get it corrected through the service provider!
 
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