Mint has created one of the world’s first
interactive motion comics, and it’s on Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya
Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate.
A bit like an animated comic strip with sound, this is the first of
three motion comics that bring alive potted biographies of the three
main players in India’s 16th general election on your digital device.
This motion comic on Modi will be followed by ones on the Congress party’s Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
The motion comic has been developed by Mint’s
inhouse creative team and Mantaray Comics, a Bangalore-based independent
publisher of comics and graphic novels (the people who create the
full-page comic that appears in Mint every week).
Best experienced with headphones, it can be viewed on all
platforms—Windows, Android, and iOS—on any laptop, desktop, mobile
phone or tablet.
It’s a fitting tribute to what is the globe’s biggest electoral exercise, involving 814 million registered voters.
And you can even leave your comments.
“It is a shame, when at one point of time Congress party
speaks about freedom of speech, there is still space for censor and
Congress party is misusing this power,” she said, adding “either the Prasar Bharati or the Information and Broadcasting Ministry should “answer”.
Denying any wrongdoing, Doordarshan said in a
statement, “there was no deliberate editing or omission of any portion
of the interview. Wherever editing was done, it was for technical
reasons and during post-production. There was no interference or control
from any authority in the entire process.”
Insisting that there was no attempt to downplay the interview, Doordarshan said that “important portions of the interview were used in all the important bulletins of Doordarshan News also...it was given wide pre-telecast publicity and (the interview) was repeated the next day.”
The information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said that his ministry does not interfere in Doordarshan’s news agenda as it has an “arm’s length relationship with Prasar Bharati, which is an autonomous broadcaster by an act of Parliamen
ONIKA JAISWAL
PGDM 1ST YEAR
2013-15
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