First post 2009

It's been 10 days since 2009 started and life is passing prtty much in a dizzy here, with my plans of blogging dailyhaving got busted...but let me start with this...

I, or rather my class, has been told today that bloggers from Calcutta don't exactly make their presence felt in the cyberworld :( What made me regret was it was kinda true. The conclusion that came from the discussion was that Bengalis like their books (read: old fashioned) and are yet to take up blogging seriously...

Mumbai has a very dedicated set of bloggers, who blog consistently and constantly about everything that is happening around, discuss various issues, know each other, use online interactivity to the fullest to communciate in real time. Most of us on the other hand use blogs as our personal journals, writing poetry, discussing our day-to-day lives etc...which is absolutely fine, I mean, I do it too. But I guess, we should have a more proactive voice in issues that are occuring around us...especially considering the easy and cheap availability and wide reach reach of the internet. 

One can say of course that it was done in the case of Singur and Nandigram, and it is true, but it really isn't enough, when you compare it to the kind of information flow that happened on the net during 26/11 or for even day to day news among Mumbai bloggers...

I do think, after spending these last few years outside the city, that Calcuttans should voice their opinions louder. A statistical achievement of being a metropolitan isn't always enough after all...