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Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing
Lakshmi Pratury joins us for a short talk on a large issue: the gang-rape of Jyoti Singh on a bus in New Delhi, and her eventual death in Singapore. The public was outraged, and it quickly turned into an international online movement to raise awareness for sexual violence. For the first time in India, people were using the Internet to galvanize a political response. Pratury launched a forum called Billionaires of Moments to help Singh’s memory live on, and to keep an archive of similar moments of tragedy that need to be remembered. Her wish is that someday, along with the Fortune 500, there will be a list of 100 Billionaires of moments. Once Pratury was deeply troubled by the public lives of young people on the Internet, but now she has hope — the same kids who post their party pics online are also posting their political outrage.
