HR: https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/991212382092345344
and https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pm-launch-karnataka-offensive-dares-rahul-to-speak-for-15-minutes-without-a-paper-in-any-language/articleshow/63984042.cms

Early this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held rallies across the Indian state of Karnataka in Southwest India. Karnataka is a state currently under the heavy influence of the Congress party in India. With elections nearing in the state on May 12, Modi seeks to diminish the Congress’ influence in the state and turn in favor of the BJP. During a rally early today, Modi bashed the leader of the Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi, son of former Indian leaders Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi has recently spoke out against the Prime Minister and in response, Modi used his stage in Karnataka for a rebuttal.
This tweet grabbed my attention because I thought it was very Trump-esque. Narendra Modi is very active on twitter as well, but he is almost always conveying positive imagery and not tweeting against others or in the tone that Trump uses. Here however, it is Modi’s party that does the actual tweeting, but the quote came from Modi during the rally. I was really caught by surprise when I read the tone of the tweet, especially because I was unaware of the conflict between Modi and Rahul Gandhi. The tensions between the BJP and the INC are high right now especially with state elections taking place across the country in coming weeks and months.
I obviously took this way further than just reading a tweet. The tweet was intriguing enough for me to look up what was going on and now I know a whole different aspect of what is going on in Indian politics right now. Some things that will be interesting to follow up on are the results of the Karnataka elections and whether or not the quarrel between Modi and Gandhi heats up or cools down after the elections.

Narendra Modi is the world’s most-followed politician on Twitter. As India’s Prime Minister, he is very active on the social media network, and posts tweets in both English and Hindi. Modi frequents twitter about as much as President Trump but from what I have analyzed, Modi’s tweets seem to be more uplifting, optimistic, and proud overall.

In a tweet from March 28, Modi exclaimed:

“Warmest congratulations and good wishes to His Excellency U Win Myint on his election as President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Look forward to working with him on strengthening India-Myanmar relations”

Shortly after independence, Indo-Burmese relations were strong due to cultural ties and regional interests. After the military of Burma succeeded in overthrowing the democratic government, there began to be a rift in the relationship. India had to deal with the Burmese drug trafficking issues and lack of a democratic government. In the last two decades, Indian leaders have sought to regain a positive relationship with Myanmar and they have had some success. With U Win Myint’s election as the next President of Myanmar, he seeks to restore strong democracy in Myanmar. As India’s one of India’s largest trading partners, and as its next door neighbor, a renewed positive relationship between the two nations would be beneficial for the entire region of South Asia. The genocides that are continuing to take place in Myanmar are a serious issue that Win Myint will have to face, especially because many migrants are heading into India and other neighboring countries. With this tweet, Modi seems optimistic with the hope that the new leadership will be open to strengthening the relationship between India and Myanmar.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/secure-your-wireless-wifi-network/10549/

Amit Agarwal was a successful professional from India before he left that life to become one of India’s most prominent bloggers. He is even more interesting to me due to the title of this course, and started a ‘digital inspiration’ blog where he aims to educate Indian’s on the ever-growing facets of the internet. The blog of Agarwal’s that I chose is one from August 2014 titled “How to Secure Your Wireless (WiFi) Home Network”. I remember Cadet Conrad discussing in one of our classes that she used a public WiFi network when she visited China the first time before she was told that she should use a secured network. With so many people in India, the WiFi complex is an interesting one to me.

Agarwal starts out the blog by giving a little bit of background about how wireless signals can easily be used by others. A few of the downsides of others using your wifi network include an increase in your internet bill, a decrease in the internet speed, and the ability for others to hack sensitive information on your connected devices. Agarwal goes on to provide a very simple and easy-to-follow guide on how to secure a wireless network. This step by step information seems very easy to follow and is not a very long article. It is noteworthy to say that his blogs are all in English. I am not sure if this is because I am accessing it from the US, but if not, it is a universal language that most Indian people know rather than the regional tongue that many speak in the different Indian regions.

This 7-step blog was interesting to me because in Indian cities with millions of people, there have to be hundreds of thousands of WiFi networks. Along with normal crimes, I feel like cyber-crimes are too easy to pull off in these Indian cities. While securing a WiFi network can provide security from others, is it still able to protect one from the overwatch of the government? Securing the WiFi network prevents hackers from accessing the information, but can the government still access sensitive information? Agarwal’s blog post seem to be more informational than controversial which is probably different than some of the bloggers from the other countries that my classmates will be discussing. I surely could have chosen an Indian activist who blogs about issues that they have with the government, but this Agarwal blog is very informative and I think he is doing good for digital India.

My name is A.K. Raja, I am the owner of a local online news source in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India called “CHENNOW: Your news NOW”. We have a very large following of working class citizens and university students throughout the city. Chennai is a working class city as India’s largest producer of automobiles and second largest provider for IT services in the entire country. Though we are the automobile hub of the country, our leading cause of death is road accidents. We also have poor public transportation. To top all of this off, we are facing a real water crisis, and the government is not even able to provide even half of the amount of water necessary for our population of 4.6 million. Below you will find some of our Headlines for February 15th.

16 people were either injured or killed in an automobile/bus crash on Chennai’s National Hwy
45, yesterday afternoon. This is the 6th notable crash in the last 4 days in Chennai.

Tomorrow,the Indian National Cricket team will be practicing at the Chemplast Cricket Ground. Attend to Meet the team before they head to Sri Lanka for their next test.

At least 2.5 of Chennai’s 4.6 million residents could be facing water shortages in the next month. The
Chennai Square reservoir inflow is decreasing each day which poses a major problem for the city.

For the first time in history, the Pollution rates in Chennai have passed those of New Delhi.

Peaceful talks take place in the Indian territory of Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan seeks to cooperate.

Expressions of love line the faces of Chennaiites as they celebrate happiness throughout the day
Of Our Public holiday Maha Shivaratri on 2/14.

Rights for women continue to make progress throughout the country

HR:https://propstory.com/top-5-infrastructural-problems-in-chennai/

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/63-million-women-missing-india-180130110405032.html
30 Jan 2017

Nearly 2 million Indian women are reported missing each year according to a recent survey by the Indian government. Indian society has been suppressing women since ancient times. Indian parents are having children until ‘the number of sons desired’ is reached. The girls are neglected and “nearly 63 million women are “missing” from India’s population due to foeticide, disease, neglect, or inadequate nutrition”. Despite Modi’s implementation of a ‘Save the Girls’ initiative in 2015, the gender inequality still exists.

The way India should address this issue using digital media is to assess this issue is simply getting it out to the public and showing that it is a real issue. Once Western nations hear about this problem, it will draw more attention. How is it possible for this many women to go missing? Is there a bigger problem at hand? Is this an issue in other Hindu/South Asian nations? It is interesting that Indira Ghandi, a woman, has once led the country, but India looks down on women in such a poor light.