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Seeking Grooms

Alliance invited for a Hindu-Khatri never married girl, 5’3”, born December 1985. Beautiful, slim, fair, vegetarian. Pursuing PhD in India. Presently in Melbourne at brother’s place. Seeks well settled and educated match in Australia. Whatsapp or call +61 466 984 747, or email 16618k@gmail.com

Match required for a 34-year-old girl Hindu Punjabi girl. Australian citizen, 5’4”, slim and attractive. Never married. Holds a post-graduate degree in multi-media, working in Digital Marketing. Family well-settled in Sydney. Please respond with photos and details to simplepuja2018@hotmail.com

Professional Punjabi Hindu Khatri match for our 26-year-old Australian born, Sydney-settled, vegetarian, law graduate, 5’5”, fair and slim daughter. Please email details to nmatrimonial@yahoo.com

Suitable match for Australian citizen, Sydney-based Sikh girl, 1991 born, 5’5”, quali ed chartered accountant, working for Australia’s leading bank. Parents highly educated and well-settled in Sydney. Please respond to hs52216a@gmail. com

Seeking Brides

Indian Christian Protestant parents seeking a suitable match for their 38-year-old son, software engineer, born and brought up in Australia. Seeking Protestant girl aged 28-34 years. Email: sammy5073@gmail.com or call on 0403 836 360

Seeking alliance for turbaned Sikh Arora boy, 1987 born, 5’8”, highly quali ed IT network analyst working with top IT rm in Sydney. Parents well educated, mum runs her business and elder brother settled in Sydney. Call on 0401 855 488 sales@indianlink.com.au or phone (02) 9279 2004 sent every day. In fact, Indians alone accounted for other more than 20 billion New Year’s Eve greetings set via WhatsApp this year.

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In the recently concluded state elections in Karnataka, it is claimed that the two major parties reached 1.5 million followers via 20,000 WhatsApp groups. These elections are being called the ‘WhatsApp First elections’ and the take up of this platform while surprising to many, was not fully unexpected.

Using this platform as a way to spread information - which cannot be verified, which can go viral easily, and which is spread between small groups multiplied by millions - is every political party’s dream of planting incorrect information if they so wish to do. Fact checking is difficult to do and because WhatsApp is such a closed channel, with all messages encrypted between senders, determining the source of false and misleading messages is nearly impossible.

While the social media platforms are developing well, the traditional print media is also strong in India with increasing circulations. In the next election cycle, they will have an important role to play as they report upon and analyse the politics of the nation.