New Delhi: Checking his mail is some thing Dr Rajat Jain does every two minutes. Not to check personal mail but to reply to the hundreds of emails that he receives in his official inbox of the Youth for Equality, the group that is spearheading the anti-reservation protests in the country.
The medicos say that people have even written in offering to pool in funds for the protests.
“The response has been terrific. We have been flooded with emails. People want to put in money also,” intern at the University College of Medical Sciences, Vivek Nautiyal said.
The anti-reservation protests have taken up a fair share of cyberspace. Minutes after the AIIMS doctors went on a hunger strike a fortnight ago, blogs started appearing on the Internet.
More than 15 blogs have been dedicated to the protests with new comments being added to these blogs by supporters almost every minute.
The protests have not only moved beyond the streets and the cyberspace but is now on mobile phones via sms.
“Its the first multi-media protest India has witnessed. Earlier you saw these things only for environmental issues or other small issues, but this is the first time, some thing this big has taken off in such a huge way,” senior journalist, Premshankar Jha said.
The protests have literally unfolded on TV screens and the Internet. Water canons being used on students, letters being written in blood, attempts at self immolation, effigies being burnt — every time an event unfolded, students relayed information to journalists ensuring that the smallest incidents got maximum coverage.
“The self immolation attempt was not our man. We didn’t instigate that. We just want the media to help us in this movement,” intern at Maulana Azad Medical College, Rajat Jain said.
The anti-reservation protests are being fought not so much from the hospitals but from a virtual world — a world of blogs, sms and the cyberspace. It's become an organised protest, with doctors who have doubled up as organisers, ensuring that the protests are covered, like it has never been done before.
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