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An unfortunate incident that happened in Delhi on Dec 16th has woken up the people leading to mass protests, condemnation, and public debates on state of affairs in the country.  Every News channel and publication was up-in-arms generating enough coverage about the incident and its aftermath asking for reforms, justice, safety, and change in social attitudes towards women… What, perhaps, more defining is the way the role of News media has changed over the years… The media has evolved from carrier of News to creator of News. Before the advent of Television, News publications had a single point agenda of bringing news to the homes.. News items of importance were gathered, collated, curated by bunch of editors and then published for public consumption… With the penetration of Television, the recency of news - Breaking News, and updates on real-time basis was carried forward by the newer medium…and Newspapers had a secondary role to play in terms of being news carrier…they soon adapte...

Now a days I learn more by watching my 16 months old kid… There are 2 things he loves to play with – My Blackberry and MacBook Air. In fact, he loves these 2 things much more than his toys. Every time he sees this, he would want me to give it to him… and ahem, sometimes I do He finds the touchscreen functionality on my phone intriguing… he can go on for hours just pressing the screen and waiting for some response to happen. Now, I think he believes that any screen is touchscreen. Whenever the television is on, he would run to it to touch the screen. This habit of his got me thinking of weaving in the content and real time user interaction. The technology is out there and it is only a matter of time before it becomes a regular feature. How it might work especially on a popular medium like television: Gamification of content: Instead of following a single common sequence of event in a plot, the content would be tweaked basis the user interaction....