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Read the full post for sure! Here's an excerpt:
"It didn’t work.
There are plenty of post mortems floating around by now. I have 3 cents to add to the same.
1. Just because you are present on a younger forum doesn’t mean you will be seen as young. I mean I just can’t see respected Shri Advaniji as the face of new India. Sorry.
2. You don’t barge into social media and expect to be welcomed. You need to make yourself part of someone’s social world first. And then ask for favors.
3. Before you put the bucks behind the message, put some thought behind the message itself.I guess you can’t just do an Obama and expect a landslide victory when you don’t have a credible, powerful clarion call as Obama had in the first place.
I also believe you don’t advertise on Social Networking sites.
Social Networking sites are like people’s homes.
Nobody wants an ad in his/her private space." -
"New Delhi: The belief that a politician is still young at 60 may no longer hold good in India, as voters have elected 226 MPs who are less than 50 years of age for the 15th Lok Sabha.
May be it is the effect of the youth appeal of Rahul Gandhi or the induction of over 10 crore youth as the first time voters, the election saw as much as 40 per cent of the MPs below the age of 50 and the youngest one — Muhammed H Sayeed of Congress became eligible for contest just a year ago and is 26-year old.
The ruling Congress, ridiculed by BJP's star campaigner Narendra Modi as 'Budhiya' (old woman), has given 77 MPs who are less than 50 years and in the process defeated the BJP that had projected its 81-year-old leader L K Advani as its prime ministerial candidate.
Emerging as the principal opposition party, the BJP, which has secured 116 seats to the Lok Sabha, came second in terms of sending in MPs in the age group of 50."
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"Today, India has more working women than any other country in the world. Of the entire workforce of 400 million, 30-35 percent are female, and of these women, only 2 0 percent work in urban India. This figure can largely be attributed to the growth of the IT-BPO industry, which is one of the largest recruiters of a qualified workforce in recent times.
* In mid ’80s, only 5-8 percent of students in engineering colleges and approximately 5-30 percent of the population entering the IT industry were women.
* By 2005, 40.4 percent of the entrants into institutions of higher education were women
* Women in IT workforce grew from 421,460 in 2006 to 670,984 in 2008"
