Bangalore: India is bettered with many scourging issues. Corruption by netas, communal riots, rapes, raising commodity prices, decline in money value, low education rate to name a few. But unlike old times, people are getting more involved in the processes that are affecting our country. There are outcries on social networks like twitter and Facebook, bringing forth the awareness over issues. And when government tried to shut their voices by arresting them for their online posts, the outcry doubled, putting the government in spot, making it to see that citizens aren’t blind anymore. All this upraising can be directly associated with rise in technology. With gadgets like Smartphones and tablets, coming loaded at affordable prices, and the mobile internet rates slashed, the technology is to add more fuel to this revolution.

The revolution, brought forth by affordable technology, can empower us in many ways. We can click babus taking bribe and upload it to anti-corruption websites like ipaidbribe.com; document the abuses people suffer at the hands of the police, and place it on public websites; offer direct payments of subsidies and social benefits to the poor via Pay-Pal-style banking accounts; thereby cutting out corrupt government officials.

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