March 30th, 2009

Blogger weds Commenter

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!A blogger gets married to a man who began his connection to her as a…commenter on her blog. So if you are a single person who wants to be married, be kind to your commenters; much [...]

March 23rd, 2009

Crowdsourcing Writer’s Block

This blog now hosts Skribit, an app to cure writer’s block and make a blog more interactive with its readers. I’m giving it a try so hop over to the space (in the sidebar) below the movie reviews and type in your suggestion. Once a suggestion gets voted on by enough people (or not), I’ll [...]

March 5th, 2009

Journalist Needs Help

After much brouhaha on the Supreme Court ruling last month regarding rights of expression online, it was summarized that this ruling merely implied that the defendant was not excused from prosecution. We can argue ad nauseaum about the merits of such a ruling but the fact remains that the defendant neither has not yet been [...]

February 25th, 2009

Restricting Freedom with Excuses of Responsibility

The Indian blogosphere has been discussing the implications of a recent Supreme Court ruling reprimanding a Kerala-based 19-year-old youth for allowing so-called libelous comments on a community he started on Orkut. The plaintiff that was offended was the Shiv Sena who are widely regarded in the Indian political circles as a responsible and reasonable outfit [...]

January 30th, 2009

Shah Rukh Khan on Twitter?

Has Shah Rukh Khan joined the Twitter bandwagon? Right now, there are just three updates and 17 followers but it looks real [via]. If true, it is interesting how he skipped blogging and went straight to microblogging which of course is much convenient.

January 28th, 2009

Muffling a Blogger

The concept of free speech in India can be a prickly affair. A billion souls and I’m sure there are billion opinions to go around. We achieved political freedom in 1947 but the true meaning of an open and democratic society still has not seeped in the Indian psyche; at times even bloggers don’t get [...]

January 14th, 2009

Best of Bollywood Blogs

I was invited by Six Apart’s Blogs.com to make a list of the Best of Bollywood Blogs. The list is now published on their site. To be honest, I had to think hard to come up with a list of exclusively Bollywood blogs and had to ultimately include Jai Arjun and Amrita too for their [...]

January 12th, 2009

Musings of Raju

Ok! Blogging is now officially uncool. Wonder if he’ll demand all bhaiyyas get off the net.

January 6th, 2009

Vote in 2008 Weblog Award

The Oscars for the blogosphere – Weblog Awards – are underway. Apna Amit Varma is nominated in the Best Asian blog and Best Political Blog sections. He has my vote for the Asian blog but I’m afraid no one was better than the inimitable FiveThirtyEight in the race for the best political blog this year. [...]

January 1st, 2009

The New DesiPundit

Many wishes for the new year and I hope you had a productive 2008 and have plenty of things planned for this year.
Updates have been irregular and infrequent at DesiPundit. Enthusiasm may appear to be low but things have been hectic behind the scenes. After much thought, we decided to overhaul the basic model and [...]


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