Global Voices: Obama and India
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 5th, 2008Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Global Voices, India, User Generated Content
History was made yesterday with the election of Barrack Obama as the 44th President of the USA. This was an election that was keenly followed by many people in India either on TV, newspaper, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.
Here is a round-up that I posted on Global Voices earlier today that captures the mood and infection of what bloggers in India had to say. Reading through the various blog postings the sense you get is that Obama’s victory does not belong to America and the Americans alone, but to the whole world.
Obama’s election appears to have unleashed a desire to get an Indian version of Obama elected. What will take to get such a person elected appears to be the sub-text of quite a few blog posts. I suspect that this election will be studied around the world by various politicians and political parties on how to conduct an election campaign that is inclusive and harnesses the power of technology. I suspect that in the case of India it will be the mobile phone that will be harnessed. India holds its next general elections in May 2009 and there is a whole layer of young politicians, who are tech and media savvy, who will shape the election campaign.
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