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The Tweeter Side to Life: How Indians on Twitter Are Making a Difference

The Tweeter Side to Life: How Indians on Twitter Are Making a Difference

by The Daily Eye Team January 28 2017, 6:04 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secs

Tweets flutter across desi airspace like it’s migration season all year round. Whether it’s a celebrity telling cyber bullies to back off, or our very own external affairs minister delivering sweet relief to her 7 million followers, Twitter has equipped millions of Indians with the ability to speak out and be heard.

In 2016, a simple tweet calling attention to starving baby rhinos at the Kaziranga National Park, orphaned due to the devastating Assam floods, received an outpouring of support. Almost immediately, food and drink conglomerate Nestle India sent help on the way, sponsoring 103 cartons of milk towards relief efforts.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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