Inheriting Colombo
While doing the daily roundups for Global Voices today, I chanced upon this lovely post at the The Lolly DJ on a grandfather who landed in Sri Lanka 65 years ago. The piece is so well-written and goes...
View ArticleShoes for Mad Momma’s Baby Shower
The wonderful Mad Momma is being thrown an online baby shower. We could give her the baby-themed story, but this wonderful pair of kimono shoes (?) found on flickr are far more appropriate. May the...
View ArticleAn update on GV
Am really happy with the way the South Asia pages for Global Voices are shaping up. In recent times, we’ve had Mathy cover the Tamil Blogosphere, Ujjwal Acharya on Nepal’s blogs, Amit Gupta on the...
View ArticleThe all new and shiny Global Voices
I said GlobalVoices had something up its sleeves. And it’s out for the world to see. Announcing all new, shiny, wonderful, (so much more readable) GV.
View ArticleB for Budapest!
Budapest is beautiful. The GV Summit is on in the city, and as always there’s a huge crowd of bloggers, cyber activists and the lot from all over the world. It’s an amazing experience, to walk around...
View ArticleGay Desi
Drumroll. Introducing Gaysifamily.com. Where Gaysi = Gay Desi. Broom is the editor for the blog, and it’s already fantastic!
View ArticleDating A Banker? Anonymous?
This is just fantastic. Dabagirls.com or Dating A Banker Anonymous Girls. More at the NY Times. Given the recession, gloomy financial forecasts, tight purse strings, disappearing purses, pink slips,...
View ArticleRSS in 1970
I don’t know why I still use Bloglines. Today, while checking feeds of a particular blog, I saw that Bloglines decided that a particular subscriber had been reading the feed since 1970! Ze mind.. it...
View ArticleWhat is the Hindi Blogosphere yapping about?
Ever wondered what murmurs are passing along in non-English blogospheres? Amit Gupta has joined Global Voices as a contributor and is volunteering to keep an eye out on the Hindi Blogosphere. His...
View ArticleIndibloggies 2006
The Indibloggies are here. For those of you too cynical for such things, kindly skip this post. There is an element of good old mob control. From the site India’s first and very own desi blog awards,...
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