Vajpayee
and Musharraf play BAD-minton at
http://news.indiamart.com
April
10, 2000: As the heat goes up on both sides of the
Indo-Pak border on various issues, leaders of both countries are
crying foul. Even as both the countries are being closely
watched by the media, there are words flying to and fro. The
argument continues and the Big Bill is really uneasy. Presenting
this interesting contention in a game format, both Vajpayee and
Musharraf have been brought in the virtual-arena at http://news.indiamart.com
to play BAD-minton on the virtue of people’s vote.
This interesting thirty-day long online tournament will display
one deed or statement done/made by one of the leaders each day
on the site. The difference is that the audience to the game
will not be mere spectators. Visitors to the site can cast their
vote by sending either a bouquet if they are in the
favour of the respective leader, or a brickbat in case
they disagree. One can even participate in the online
discussions by posting one’s messages to be seen and
responded by other visitors from across the world on the online
discussion board dedicated to the issue.
This unique game has it's own set of rules and regulations. The
tournament has been divided into five rounds consisting of hot
issues that have shaped the Indo-Pak relations lately, namely
the Kargil Round, Terrorism Round,
Clinton Round, Ballot Vs Bullet Round, and
the Nuclear War Round. The result of each round will be
derived by counting the number of bouquets or brickbats received
by the respective leader on a particular issue. The section is
full of facetious cartoons and caricatures of leaders
that interestingly depict the issues in particular rounds.
"When both nations are engaged in fault-finding, we wanted
to involve the common man to decide through this interesting
game who the actual winner is", says Mamta Khanna, Content
Coordinator- news.indiamart.com. News.indiamart.com, a
one-stop-site for news from all major Indian dailies had also
covered the highlights of Clinton’s visit to India.
IndiaMART.com, the largest Indian business portal has been
providing online coverage of mega-events including the Financial
Budget 2000, 13th Lok Sabha Elections and Cricket
World Cup’99 as a value addition to its visitors. "We
wanted to go beyond conventional ‘opinion polls’
running on every other news-based portal. This section takes a
step further by involving the visitors into the current hot
issue in an interesting yet simple game format that will retain
visitors for a whole month." Comments Mr Dinesh
Agarwal, Director, IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd. on the concept
behind the game.
So, login at http://news.indiamart.com to discuss an arduous
issue like Kashmir, or Kargil, or for that matter cross-border
terrorism, that too 'khel-khel main'!
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