{"id":2452,"date":"2011-02-21T10:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:30:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T05:30:24","slug":"twitter-does-not-cause-revoultion-people-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/02\/21\/twitter-does-not-cause-revoultion-people-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Does not Cause Revoultion, People Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; My Column in today&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/\">DNA<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You need to have been stuck under a rock in Antarctica or living in furthest reaches or China to have missed the popular protest in Egypt that led to the fall of a thirty-year-old dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution didn\u2019t happen because one morning the people of Egypt woke up and said \u201cAh! 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