Bharateeya Blog Mela # 10
Published by Yazad Jal May 1st, 2003 in Web World
Cheers! The Bharateeya Blog Mela completes it’s first decade! Let’s celebrate by moving straight on to the main event…
The seminal stuff this week is from Dina Mehta. Her three pieces on Youth Futures scratches way beneath the surface. I liked the way she fuses market research with a social vision and understanding.
Shyamal’s Photolog is attracting rave reviews. Here’s a pic of the Liberty One building, Philadelphia. The page also has a list of first messages or signals transmitted over the various forms of telecom.
JK blogs on China facing the brunt politically and economically over it’s mis-handling of SARS.
The bravery of Iranian bloggers is unearthed by Mahesh’s filter coffee.
Shanti continues her conversations on religion and god.
Anil Dash touches upon the paradigm shift in the computer world — from computing to communications.
Sampada deftly connects a mythological story with a poem and three paintings in Leda and the Swan. (April 29, 2nd post). Vikas Kamat tells us that Indian art is symbolized by more than just Raja Ravi Varma.
Niraj comments on Schwarzkopf and Franks and the different war time reporting needs of the media, while codelust laments on the strangeness of the war. (April 23)
Rohini ponders over the Click smokeless tobacco ads. Is it a case of a bad ad? Or a bad product that should not be advertised?
Sameer skewers the Pakistani foreign office’s lack of logic. (April 29) But then did they have any in the first place?. In a lighter vein, Sameer (on his LJ) presents his detailed Ph. D. research on the 7 Ways to Sleep in a Bus.
Sarika debunks the ABCD theory and heralds the new IJKL. Read all about the classical symptoms.
VS Babu dredges up some math fallacies.
Yours truly presents his first Sunday Review (April 28 — just scroll down on this page!)
Next week, the mela shall be Dancing with Dogs. I’ve had a whale of a time putting this up twice consecutively, and with both days being my birthday, it’s been even more enjoyable. Thanks to all of you great people who sent in nominations and encouragement.
[2 birthdays? Yup. Read more here]