Tania, Nancy and Sherlyn have started a new blog, which they describe as “a blog about stuff girls do, stuff girls do but never come out”. Their intro holds a lot of promise:
What to expect?
1. Some of the dirtiest secret of women!
2. A candid description of female thinking.
3. We will talk about our attitude [...]
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Stuff girls do
Published by May 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Feminism, Recommended Links and Women. 0 CommentsThe Gradwolf outlines five stages of blogging:
Phase 3:
The 0 comments becomes 1,2,3 and then 4. The guy is simply overwhelmed. Here begins the change in attitude and so in his writing. He starts writing for an audience. He doesn’t write for himself anymore. He has readers, he has sent out the feeds and he [...]
Friend of Blogbharti, Jack Stephens, hosts the 21st carnival of socialism. His focus for this carnival is on South Asia and he has done a good job of assembling a lot of interesting posts.
Club Mahindra Holidays IPO
Published by April 7th, 2008 in Blogging, Business and Travel. 0 CommentseNidhi does an analysis of Club Mahindra Holidays IPO. When he writes about Club Mahindra, everyone else listens. The company responded to his questions.
Indic Twitter
Published by April 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Community, Personal, Society and public space. 1 CommentThe joys of Twitter are many. As Kiruba Shankar finds out,
Another reason why I like Twitter because its a place where I can write down things that I think are too frivolous for a blog post. “Crap! The crow just shat on me!”.
Sometimes, it can be a place for me to type my thoughts down [...]
Praveen at the NeoAlchemist has a set of lovely cartoons that make you ponder as well as laugh. Go take a look!
Blogging from Antarctica
Published by April 3rd, 2008 in Blogging, Environment and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsI am a resident of Delhi, India, and a psychiatrist by profession (heal the mentally unwell). I’m also fond of the great outdoors, and cultures around the world. I’ll be spending 3.5 months in Antarctica winter of 2008, doing research at the Indian base station. Thru this blog, I hope to keep my friends and [...]
Looks like Shruthi, fellow Blogbhartian, belongs to a family that believes: a family that blogs together…. Well, they blog on different sites but they do seem to share a common zest for life- of turning little things into wonderful stories. While Anil Kumar JL, Shruthi’s uncle, admits it was his niece who was instrumental in [...]
The Black King decides to end his blog:
After some time, the need to confess anonymously and to find faceless help ends. When realization dawns in, you don’t really bother whether someone approves or disapproves of your actions: you don’t need anyone else’s judgement to justify your own existence.
Wonder what purpose our own blogs serve, and [...]
Thyagaraja Vaibhavam
Published by March 28th, 2008 in Blogging, Language, Literature and Music. 0 CommentsA blog dedicated to the saint composer Thyagaraju: V.Govindan has been posting trasliterated versions of the composer’s Telugu Kritis in English (and in Devanagari, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam scripts), together with the translation in English. A commendable effort. The latest post features the Kriti ‘ramA ramaNa rArA’.
Makkal Sakti
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Economy, Indiaspora, Language and Prejudice. 0 CommentsNoticed this interesting blog ‘Makkal Sakti‘ (which, I guess, means ‘People’s Power’ in Tamil) which focuses on issues facing Malaysian Indians. This post by Joe Fernandez, a former newspaper editor, unveils one perspective on the recent unrest in Malaysia:
Does the fate of the Tamils in Malaysia hinge solely on the government? The Tamils are the [...]
Frames and Angles seems to be a new group blog on cinema- the latest post reviews a few films shown at the recent ‘1st Women’s Film Festival’ in Chennai:
The festival’s theme was simple. Movies directed by woman directors, from all over the world. Being conducted by InKo centre, a Indian Korean cultural centre, movies were [...]
Unchaahi
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, India, Media, Prejudice, South Asia and Women. 0 CommentsUnchaahi is a new group blog that aims to be a ‘voice against Female Genocide (a result of sex-selective abortions, and murders of female infants also known as female infanticide) focused specifically in the Indian Subcontinent.’ An excerpt from a recent post (on Ekta Kapoor soaps) by Roop Rai, one of the contributors:
I wondered then, [...]
Random bloggers’ reactions to the budget from Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad
Published by March 1st, 2008 in Blogging, India, Personal, Policy and Society. 1 CommentVatsan, expressing some discontent from Chennai, takes a dig at MK and PC:
This is once again a mere number. If I am not wrong, a few years back the number was as high as Rs 1000 crores. And now an additional Rs 300 crores. But what happens to the money? Well Since our local government [...]
The Spotlight Series returns..
Published by February 14th, 2008 in Announcement, Blogging and Spotlight Series. 0 Comments….tomorrow. With new bloggers and new posts. And, we promise you, it will be as interesting and thought-provoking as earlier.
[Click here for the archives.]
I know, I know it is early but Srinidhi has such funny blogging related new year (mainly) resolutions that I had to post it here.
Amrita is upset after two of her favourite bloggers were hit by their identities being revealed.
These people are not your bitches, they didn’t call and ask you to visit, they didn’t hound you into giving them your custom, you are not doing them a favor by visiting their space, you do not own them or [...]
The Tamil Punkster is going to host the 49th Carnival of the feminists and is calling for submissions.
I would love it if you could send me or tip off posts related to privilege and the politics of gender roles or both, but please, other posts are equally welcome! This is in no way an official [...]
Common Tags for all Gujarat posts
Published by October 29th, 2007 in Announcement, Appeal, Blogging and Justice. 0 CommentsDina has a suggestion:
Citizens for Peace, has issued a press statement and written several letters to senior members of different political parties. There are tons of blog posts popping up too where bloggers are expressing strong sentiments against the Gujarat government. I’m also a little shocked at the strange quiet around this on the English [...]
Found this interesting blog dedicated to Daniel Pearl:
This blog is dedicated to Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Pearl was a veteran journalist and a great human who worked for The Transcript, The Berkshire Eagle and The Wall Street Journal. Being the Daniel Pearl fellow, I feel privileged [...]
While there are video blogs such as Rocket Boom making waves across the USA, video blogging hasn’t grabbed much attention or interest in India yet. Here is a video blog, Swajana, that posts a video on every Monday. Their post on Share Auto-Rickshaws is interesting.
Auto rickshaws have been modified in India to carry more passengers [...]
Bellur has a series of about 22 (and counting) hilarious cartoons on blogs, blogging and bloggers up on his blog. Don’t miss them!
Dinoos is frustrated by the divisions in the Indian digital world:
Almost every news item, from national/international politics, Cinema and art, ends up in an exchange of mad and cowardly ideas of racial/regional attacks in these forums. If you closely look at it, you can see people taking up most of their time to attack Muslims [...]
“You are very creative. Readers like that. Your breadth of knowledge is quite good. Readers like that too. You are not that deep, and readers like that as well. Hey, but next time you rip something out of google or quote someone, will you be a good boy and acknowledge the source?”
December Stud attempts a classification of all [...]
Sajjiv Balakrishnan is a cartoonist and he has posted some ‘sportive‘ cartoons and caricatures in his blog Sportato. It is mostly the Cricket players, but still a very good work. Check it out.
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