| Summary/Abstract |
There has been a glut of social media activism vis-à-vis the floods in
Assam. But the ardour of online activism can have disastrous
consequences because issues taken up on social media are transient.
There was a lot of anger and bitterness that the “national” media failed
to give due coverage to the Assam floods. This is a perpetual grouse
and it is as predictable as the monsoons. After Home Minister Rajnath
Singh’s visit and the media focus that the visit got, one gets to read less
and less about the flood affected except from the good old newspapers
which follow up the flood stories assiduously
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