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Celebrating the Indian Blogosphere

Welcome to this week's edition of the BlogMela. I am already in the wee hours of Monday morning for a Sunday issue so let's not waste time with pleasantries. Here we go -

First, the blog news of the week - Mediaah, our best media blog, has been served with a legal notice by a Media biggie. They have been forced to shutdown but they promise to be back online in a different form by the first week of June. We all wish well for your third round, Mediaah! DesiMediaBitch has the story and Nilu has a few suggestions on how we can do our bit for Mediaah. The least you can do is sign this online petition.

Saket Vaidya is peeved by the way Indians worship superstars. He narrates a wierd experience he had in one of the malls in Mumbai when he found some 'champas, chamelis and chamans' walking into the mall amidst heavy security.

Eroteme lets us into his room and reminds us of those days when we clean up our rooms only to discover things we were supposed to do long back. Then what you get is an information overload. Lots and lots of things to do.

Neelakantan is impressed by Deccan's 0.5 grand offer for an air ticket not because of the price but because they are inviting a whole new segment of travellers to flying.

Bollycat or Wobblycat? Gaurav Sabnis points to an Indian site which is supposed to be a database of plagiarisms in Bollywood. Dissapointingly it turns out that the site owner needs to check facts before proclaiming that Lagaan is a copy of Victory.

Saurav Sarkar attracts our attention to the fact that Narendra Modi is about to make an appreance at the Madison Square Garden in NYC on March 20th. He urges NYC Indians to be a part of the CAG protest against the man. Modi sure was the 'chief abettor' in the Gujarat genocide and he should be made to feel shameful about it.

"The Great Ocean Road had a tourist radio frequency that tells tourists about the places while they drive". Sumeet Singh describes his wonderful trip to the 12 Apostles of Port Campbell in the US of A. How I wish I was there!

Ammani gives a very brief but beautiful description of a woman who lived all her life for her family.

Gaurav Meshram has just discovered that he's been addicted! I had the same feeling some years back. I still haven't been able to shake that off.

Kingdoms of Tomorrow. Sachin Nair has an analogy for multinationals. The bottomline, he says, is that we never really did evolve, nature ensures that we follow the same path but it changes the playing field thus helping us to think that we have evolved overtime. Very interesting!

Satellite townships - do they have a role to play? or are they in existence just to decongest big cities? That's what Patrix is pondering over after his visit to Cresskill in NJ. Hmmm, they are also called counter magnets.

Surya questions the popular notion that NRIs can help India by living in India. She explains how the 'Non-Returning Indian' can be a capable ambassador of India to the world and how NRIs are partly creditable for the changed perceptions of India in the last few years.

Kiruba wants you to know that money from Google Adsense is for real. That's because he's being paid for real. That's great! Now get going and register on Google.

Atul Arora narrates a playground incident about his friend Munna Kabbadi's football adventure. Its really funny - मुन्ना कबाड़ी और पत्थर से टक्कर!

Young and Fearless. Amit Varma observes these qualities in young Pakistani cricketers on their media interactions. On the other hand, Indians lack the burning desire to win. How true!

Xena's with an interesting short story - Ruse x Truce. It ends nicely. As with most of you, I too like stories with nice endings most of the time. Makes you feel good about life.

Finally Nivas reviews Aldous Huxley's The Brave New World. He relates the almost prophetic descriptions to where our world is heading. What catches me about Nivas's description of the novel is the Matrix-like future being presented in it. And that from a book written in the thirties!

Hope you liked the variety of posts for and of Indians this week. Do drop in your comments. Cheers and enjoy your week ahead!

Update: The next Blog Mela will be hosted on Kiruba's weblog.