Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
By Dheeraj Fartode
Youngsters who are a driving force of nation turned out in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the general elections on Thursday. Large number of youth made it a point to cast their votes. Among them many were first time voters.
Raman Lahoti, a resident of Dhantoli, who voted first time hoped that the election would bring in a change in country. I have to voted for the party not to candidate as role of party is more important in our democracy,” he said. I have chosen my representative who has the capacity to solve problems of common man,” he said.
‘Updated’ youth flood Facebook
Social media too was in play during the voting. Many a youngsters who participated in the polling did not forget to update status on social networking sites. At the same time the selfies were on full display as the inked finger with a beaming face in background marking the updating of photo. And many others annoyed made it a point to let the world knew their rage, when they found their names missing from the voting list. More of a disappointment at not able to upload new photo on Facebook, perhaps.
Twinkle Thakur, a resident of Koradi Road and a student of Priyadarshani Polytechnic college said that she had enrolled her name in the voters list. However she was depressed at not finding her name in final roll. It was very shocking and disappointing moment for me as I have not voted in Lok Sabha polls as yet. All my friends have updated their pictures on FB after voting,” she added.
Another engineering student Suhas Yadav, a resident of Rameshwari, said that voting was only status updating exercise on social media for me. No one can change fate of city and I have voted to only update my profile on social media just like my friends have done, he added.
It can be mentioned that FB walls and WhatsApp profile pictures were thronged with marked fingers on Thursday. Every voters, who have FB account, uploaded his profile picture on FB appealing others for voting.
Nagpur Tweets tops Twitter
Social networking and microblogging site Twitter was thronged with tweets related to voting. Six out of top 10 trends were related to the election and Nagpur was at fifth number by evening. Other election related trends-- GetInked, Power of 49, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Vote for India, ModiKiDilli, Vote4Jhadu and IamWithCongress were among top 10 trends of twitters on Thursday.
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