The Postmortem

4 days after the US. election day and the fever is slowly getting down.
I believe that the best way to document history is through images. Images clearly win over videos as in an image, time is still. One can see it over and over again and feel the moment. Images vs words is a big debate and i side with image because words need one's own visualization while images give a direct view.

Aninda shared these images: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html

NYTimes had a slide show on How Obama won.

Obama's tech savvy campaign had a flickr profile where there are some 50K photos, right from the day he announced his candidacy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/

But, i guess the best photo comes to me from Nandini's blog post: she looks like the future, reaching out to heal the past.

There is another website now : http://change.gov/. A website from obama campaign to discuss changes needed.


But after the elation begins to die, i am reminded of another election that is soon going to happen.
Come May 2009 and India will decide what happens. The preparations have started. LK Advani is going to BJP's candidate. On his bday, yesterday, he announced his own website : http://www.lkadvani.com/. Congress is (not sure) going to continue with Manmohan Singh if they continue.
Its time to start following the future else present and future will be on different tracks soon. I hope the journey will be as good as it was here in US.

Things that am looking forward for:
1. Good journalism. Media makes all the difference in elections these days. CNN had a truth squad which was reasonably unbiased in exposing both Dems and Reps.
2. An Indian counterpart for daily show. :)
3. Technology savvy campaigning. Come on India, its time now.
4. And finally, good candidates, better campaigning. Can we reduce divisive politics ?
5. Good voter turnout in cities.

As William wordworth wrote (came to know about it from here):

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!--Oh! times

Let that dawn be now.