Category: Blogs

Bharateeya Blog Mela No 19

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Here are some of the best Indian blog entries for this week.
smorgasbord in his post “My Hinduism, Your Hinduism”:http://smorgasbord.rediffblogs.com/2003_22_06_smorgasbord_archive.html#1056505692 says “My Hinduism has nothing in common with the narrow views defined by Ashok Singhal or Bal Thackeray, who are undemocratic, ignorant and self-serving demagogues”. He also has another nomination “The Star Spangled Indian connection”:http://smorgasbord.rediffblogs.com/2003_29_06_smorgasbord_archive.html#1056947968 which brings out the connection between the American national anthem and India.
Indian Ink has two nominations as well. “Fruit Labels”:http://indianink.bloghosts.com/archives/000118.html solves the mystery of identifying conventional, organic and genetically modified food. There is also a recipe to prepare “Badam Laddu”:http://indianink.bloghosts.com/archives/000132.html.
Sandeep takes off from where I left and dissects Pritish Nandy’s racist article against the NRIs in this entry titled “Pritish Nandy’s Jokes”:http://sandeep.blog-city.com/readblog.cfm?BID=124532
Niraj explains why “Israel should not snub the BBC”:http://www.nirajweb.net/mt/niraj/archives/001615.html “I personally believe Israel should maintain relations with the BBC because it is better to get your views across, no matter how the BBC may spin it, then not saying anything at all. Why cede the argument to the other side?”
Shanti writes about “Multiculti hypocrisy”:http://www.madhoo.com/archives/002533.php#002533 and says “It is extremely irritating for me to hear how proud someone else is of my culture and heritage, to the point that they won?t condemn or worse, let me condemn even the bad things about my own culture or about other cultures I see around me.”
Lazy Geek has a “review of film music and movies”:http://lazygeek.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_lazygeek_archive.html#105668972167281768
That’s it for this week. If you wish to host the next Blog Mela, please drop a comment. We need volunteers. If no one volunteers, I threaten to host again.

Blog Mela 19: Announcement

The 19th Bharteeya Blog Mela will be hosted here on July 2.
Directions for nominating entries for the Mela
* Email jk @ sulekha. com
* Drop it in as a comment to this post
* Please send your nominations to me latest by July 1, 7 pm PST.
* The entries have to be dated between June 25 – July 1.
The Rules
* Posts must either be made by Indians or must focus on India or Indians.
* Send in permalinks to the individual blog entries only, not just the URL. If
the permalink is not working, send me the title and date of the blog entry.
* You can nominate your own posts or someone else’s.
* You can submit any type of posts except personal journal entries.
For more on the Blog Mela, here’s “gyan”:http://www.ashoo.org/blog/archives/cat_blogs_bloggers_and_blogging.html#000037 from a founder’s blog. Also check “what I wrote”:https://varnam.org/archives/000018.html long time ago. The earlier melas are archived “here”:http://www.realwomenonline.com/index.php?topic=mela.

Sulekha Weblogs

Last week I visited the offices of Sulekha.com in Chennai. I have been a regular “columnist”:http://www.sulekha.com/columninfo.asp?cid=113166 there for almost two years now (with occasional six month breaks). This was the first time I was seeing the human beings with whom I had interacted via e-mail over the years. One piece of information I got while I was there was this – Sulekha has launched a weblogs section. Please “take a look”:http://www.sulekha.com/weblogs/ and send your feedback.

Blog Mela #8

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As the “peace lovers” change their stand from “We hate war, We love Uncle Saddam”, to “We hate Saddam, but we also hate war” to “We hate America, all other wars are OK” to “I don’t hate America. But why didn’t we kill Saddam directly”, to “I love America, I opposed the war only because I thought it would upset the camels in Basra”, here is this week’s Bharateeya Blog Mela — The Candles of Marina Beach
Continue reading “Blog Mela #8” →

Blog '03 & Mela

“This week’s Blog Mela”:http://www.ravikiran.com/?RequestId=242 is hosted by Ravikiran. Do visit and also blog about it.
The Hindu : Want to blog today? is an article on Blog 03, a national panel discussion on blogging organised by Anna University’s department of Media Sciences in association with rediff.com. (Link via “Kiruba”:http://www.kiruba.com, the permlink-less one)
Update: The next blog mela will be hosted by “Sameer”:http://supersam5.blogspot.com/

Blog Mela #5 at Ashwini's place

Ashwini has hosted this week’s Blog Mela, a collection of some good Indian blogs. Please check it out. Also please blog about it today.
*Update*: The Department of Media Sciences, Anna University, Chennai is hosting a “national conference on Blogging”:http://www.geocities.com/mdeii/event.html. (Link via “Kamat”:http://www.kamat.com/vikas/blog.php?date=3/25/2003)