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I found that amusing and actually gave me an idea of the extent of our blog’s reach. Angelo is not exactly desi but has plenty reasons to be branded as a honorary desi. He is an accomplished MIS geek and fancies Google although technically he still is in college. He has been an active participant in the IIPM blog wars post-showdown phase, digging up information that is ‘publicly available’. Incidentally, he snapped a picture of Ash and I and posted it on his blog thus busting my visual identity secret. But I guess; now I care little so Angelo gets to keep his post intact.
I met up with Dina Mehta, one of the more widely known Indian bloggers in the international blog circles. Although she hasn’t been blogging as long as I thought she was, she certainly has carved a niche for herself and has used her blog adeptly to market her vocation. I hope my urban planning blog follows a similar path. She emailed me as soon as she read my “I am in Khar” post and of course, I didn’t waste any time in contacting her as she is an extremely busy individual.
With her market research skills, she has extended her knowledge to using blogs as social networking tool and even convinced corporates to start blogging. We found plenty of “it’s a small world” links. She offered me some great lemon grass bawa chai, which I enjoyed thoroughly (never say no to chai!). We chatted for almost an hour and a half on the role of blogs, the rise of Indian blogs, the libertarian stranglehold (hehehe…how could we not talk about that behind your back, cartel members?), the future or potential of blogging, personal stories, India’s growing fascination with consumerism, her love for DesiPundit, etc. Overall, it was nice meeting and talking to each other and I think I might talking to her again soon for other professional reasons.
I’ll be definitely meeting up with others soon and I’ll keep updating on other blogger meets.
by Patrix | on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 at 12:00 pm | 
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December 21st, 2005 at 3:06 pm reply
But I thought Ash posted a pic (rather a link to a pic) after your Chicago trip a couple of weeks ago. You were certainly visible there too :)
December 21st, 2005 at 9:51 pm reply
aNTi, I had hoped no one had caught that. Dang!
December 21st, 2005 at 10:42 pm reply
Haahaha… I actually went back to see *if* I was mistaken, but no.. there you were :)
December 22nd, 2005 at 4:03 am reply
hey
Am in Mumbai, from 29 dec to 1st jan, at Powai.
Let’s catch up on phone at least
regards
Gautam
December 22nd, 2005 at 6:45 am reply
Bahraini Pundit? LOL.. hardly…one.
Aren’t you guys the desipundit founders? that’s what I thought all along :S So according to aNTi’s comment, it actually turns out I wasn’t the first to have “busted” your visual identity ;-)
Err.. the email from this lady at Cambridge wasn’t publicly available iipm info - well it was but more of a confirmation I guess :-)
Funny how Dina didn’t talk about Skype during your meet.. Where’s that Pro-Skype person in you now? Dina? Google…. Dina.. remember it’ll always be Google :-D Although I must admit that in terms of getting things done during Katrina- Skype has always been there for us! :)
Now that Ash has scaled back on her stay here in Bahrain. next time you guys happen to drop by - you’ve gotta come over and meet the other bloggers here!
…And Congrats Patrix :D on the engagement of course!
December 22nd, 2005 at 10:17 am reply
Hey .. it was great guppa with a cuppa. Keep in touch, and come on over for more bawa chai before you leave … can offer you bawa food too !
Angelo …. youuuuuuuuuuuu. Wait till you come to bombay :):):)
December 24th, 2005 at 1:56 pm reply
Gautam, that is a pretty short time frame and in busy times too. But lets chat up on phone.
Angelo, thanks for your wishes. Believe it or not, Dina did talk about Skype but she casually slipped it in and didn’t gush over it :)
Dina, I loved our little meet up and I’ll try to contact you again if I have some time on my hands esp.when Ash comes down to Mumbai.